Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no birth certificate , no National Insurance number , nothing to say I 'm alive or have ever existed . |
| 2 | No place to hide , and this that 's just begun |
| 3 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 4 | The transition was then less abrupt than has since become the habit . |
| 5 | I ‘ m sure you will all be aware of the projected plan to allow building on the land known as Curriemuirend and the action group that was formed to rally support to oppose this and has effectively done so . |
| 6 | She added : ‘ We have had so many inquiries about this and have carefully verified it and we want to set their minds at rest . ’ |
| 7 | The basic elements of the station were already clear and have never changed . |
| 8 | These tools have often proved to be too language-specific and have often highlighted our need to re-evaluate concepts of language and communication . |
| 9 | This species , which is low-growing and has unusually shaped leaves , is , however , attractive . |
| 10 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 11 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 12 | The loss of amenities caused to an elderly person as a result of his injuries can be more severe precisely because he is old and has already suffered some impairment of his activities on that account . |
| 13 | She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child . |
| 14 | These changes , in the piecemeal fashion in which the Act is being implemented , will come into force in September 1993 and have already led to what Adrian Randall , finance director of the Cancer Research Campaign , calls , ‘ some howlers ’ . |
| 15 | The jury has sought assistance and , once it appears that the problem is one of fact , the judge has not inquired further but has merely given general guidance , as in the present case . |
| 16 | Pollitt ( 1990 ) argues that this approach was largely process-oriented but has recently shifted to outcomes ( surgical mortality rates , unplanned readmissions , prevalence of cross infections ) reflecting the demands of more powerful purchasing organisations and litigious consumers . |
| 17 | Initiatives such as Sematech helped US industry to catch up , but Grove sees this as having only held the advance of Japanese manufacturers . |
| 18 | Whatever the outcome it seems absurd that having supposedly wiped the poll tax off the political agenda , ministers are still saddled with it , Darlington council is still saddled with imposing it and , worst of all , ordinary people are still saddled with paying it . |
| 19 | THE OFFICIAL , artist-approved re-release of a private pressing from ‘ 74 that has since become a sought-after collector 's item . |
| 20 | The same is true of the various biographies of Lloyd George — although , no doubt , when John Grigg 's multi-volume Life reaches 1931 it will illuminate much that has hitherto remained obscure ; likewise , in the case of Lloyd George 's great enemy , Neville Chamberlain , we have to await the completion of David Dilks 's biography . |
| 21 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 22 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 23 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ I live him very much and have always admired him . |
| 25 | The term skin disinfectant is synonymous with antiseptic and has largely replaced it . |
| 26 | I am 26 and have just lost my virginity after a year-long relationship . |
| 27 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 28 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 29 | The relevant pressure groups maintain their vigilance , but during the 1970s the changes in the rural landscape , especially in the lowlands , have become much more visible and have certainly received much more publicity . |
| 30 | One affected to be lame and had probably become so by constant practice . |