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 | The transition was then less abrupt than has since become the habit . |
| 3 | The basic elements of the station were already clear and have never changed . |
| 4 | These tools have often proved to be too language-specific and have often highlighted our need to re-evaluate concepts of language and communication . |
| 5 | This species , which is low-growing and has unusually shaped leaves , is , however , attractive . |
| 6 | Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We knew the water was dangerous and had only gone in to our knees . |
| 12 | The term skin disinfectant is synonymous with antiseptic and has largely replaced it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One affected to be lame and had probably become so by constant practice . |
| 16 | The Singapore dollar is stable and has gradually strengthened against the pound and the US dollar ( now standing at S$2.58 : £1 ) . |
| 17 | In our choice of institutions to whom we have sent the tape , we have tried to get as wide a scope of research as possible and have now completed our quota for the pilot . |
| 18 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 19 | The brewer is required to release 2,250 pubs in total and has already sold 950 . |
| 20 | By the age of 12 , she was only the size of an eight-year-old and had already undergone two operations to straighten her legs . |
| 21 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 22 | Realising that her crossness with Vendelin Gajdusek had been short-lived and had quickly faded , Fabia was left to worry about Cara , and Barney , and the interview which by rights should now be over , but which had n't begun yet . |
| 23 | The working party have taken the view that the small company audit is unnecessary and have virtually accused us of being parasites . |
| 24 | ‘ I consider that in enacting the Damages ( Scotland ) Act , parliament did not consider that it was making any change to the right of parents to sue for damages for the death of a child who had sustained injuries prior to birth , had been born alive and had subsequently died in consequence of these pre-natal injuries . ’ |
| 25 | The man was around 5ft 4ins tall and had fair coloured hair . |
| 26 | But there will always be clients whose English is poor , who are bewildered or have perhaps tried but failed , and who will still need specialist care . |
| 27 | He faced the challenge of Dunluce , a 6860-yard , par 73 giant that had already brought quite a few players to their knees , among them title favourite Phil Tataurangi . |
| 28 | Department of the Foreign Office , who was possessed of a sense of the fatuous that had often threatened to wreck his career . |
| 29 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 30 | This emperor would be the secular arm of the pope following papal policies : in some ways a simplistic interpretation of the Donation of Constantine , perhaps — the return to an ideal that had never existed . |