Example sentences of "[adj] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body of philosophical opinion which avers that life is absurd has never appealed to him . |
| 2 | That has already happened in many major companies , at The Midland Bank and Marks & Spencer for example . |
| 3 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 4 | On the questionnaires there were comments such as : ‘ It was a very nice diet , the first that has actually worked for me all over my body ! |
| 5 | And the price of big houses like that has really plummeted in the last year . |
| 6 | That has never happened to me before in my career ! ’ |
| 7 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 8 | Nothing like that has ever happened to me before . ’ |
| 9 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 10 | Erm , there is in fact a , which a number of members have referred to , there is in fact a hundred and fifty thousand being spent this year on day care capital as a result of the two and a half million package which members agreed in October and that has obviously gone to voluntary organizations for them to spend . |
| 11 | That has now risen to around 11:1 and if the squeeze goes on could go even higher . |
| 12 | The Prudential has recently called for greater disclosure of treasury matters by listed companies . |
| 13 | This has already led to stiffer competition among private banks . |
| 14 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 15 | This has already begun in some parts of the country . |
| 16 | This has already begun in some parts of the country , including Wiltshire . |
| 17 | An example of this has already appeared in Holland , where the Minister of Justice refused to approve policy allowing lesbians and gays to adopt children , arguing that Holland should not deviate so far from general European policy . |
| 18 | And this has already resulted in the development of joint certification agreements with bodies such as the Engineering Industry Training Board . |
| 19 | This has already resulted in substantial savings in our construction costs , selling expenses and overheads . |
| 20 | According to company chairman Sir Anthony Cleaver , this has already resulted in concrete improvements , including the installation of energy efficient lighting , at an annual saving of £20,000 per year . |
| 21 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 22 | Planetary interiors are ultimately expected to experience declining temperatures , and there is some fairly direct evidence that to some extent this has already occurred in Mercury . |
| 23 | This has frequently happened on the Halemaumau volcano , which has a deep , circular , pit-like crater about one and a half kilometres across at its summit . |
| 24 | For instance , the incidence of reported rape has gone up dramatically in the last five years but this has also coincided with a change in police policy designed to give victims support and to take every allegation seriously . |
| 25 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 26 | That this has also occurred in exploitative , sentimental , and/ or racist forms does not diminish its significance ; it anything it increases it . |
| 27 | By 1980 the firm already had eleven consultants in the UK in addition to its directors , and this has since increased to twelve . |
| 28 | This has since expanded into a professionally organised system covering the whole country , but we should not forget that it was Harry Barber who began it . |
| 29 | This has repeatedly led to clashes over such questions as differentials , with ASLEF attempting to protect the elite status of its members . |
| 30 | Since that time I think that there has been great progress towards reconciliation and this has largely flowed from common sense and from a better understanding of the facts . |