Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’
2 But no subject received more attention than Mathematics and no curriculum project then or since has received such massive support as the Entebbe programme and its successors .
3 No one before or since has published so much from so many sites in quantity and variety .
4 But Mr Mellor said many local authorities found the restrictions imposed by the 1950 Shops Act outmoded and ‘ rightly or wrongly have refused to enforce it . ’
5 Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference .
6 ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’
7 Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy .
8 And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know .
9 But if you send an estimate you more or less have to say what you 're moving as well because if there 's more than that and you do n't put down what you 're moving then you 're p stuck with the estimate really and in p practice that 's what usually happens , you give an estimate and then you do it for that price .
10 First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably .
11 At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days .
12 The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment .
13 But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world .
14 Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions .
15 But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta .
16 The objective would be whatever end result is desired from the activity of discussing XY and Z. It might be to have decided something , planned something , agreed something , or merely to have discovered people 's points of view about something .
17 Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money .
18 Or normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry .
19 As to the performance , the increasing quantity of ‘ voices only ’ work by the Hilliard Ensemble and others gives rise to several questions about the performance style and vocal colour which these groups consciously or not have adopted .
20 Charges of failing to produce or not having required documents were dropped by magistrates in Camberwell Green .
21 Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question .
22 Marshall boasted on his trade card that he was ‘ the inventor of true Spectacle Grinding & the only person that has , or ever has had , the Approbation of the Royal Society ’ .
23 An estimated 1,500,000 adults in Australasia , North America and Western Europe were infected with HIV , while an estimated 250,000 or more had developed AIDS .
24 It was not until ten years or more had passed that the disastrous side-effects on ruck and maul of the abolition of the old ‘ play the ball with a foot after a tackle ’ law began fully to be felt .
25 Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one .
26 This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 .
27 Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died .
28 Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels .
29 However , it is not the case that presentation of a word is assumed to leave no trace behind in the logogen system after a second or more has elapsed .
30 Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ?
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