Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist .
2 Phrase structure rules would implicitly have been adopted , legitimating certain combinations that have successfully occurred , as well as others that had not yet occurred but might very well have , and with similar success , had the choice of words and message had to be different .
3 Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper .
4 The local community-based organizations that have since formed have been more basic in their opposition to any mining and have taken political organization — through lobbying , petitions , demonstrations and public meetings — as their mode of operation .
5 The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done
6 By marrying Anne , Tim will cement the strong ties that have always existed between the armed forces and royalty .
7 The first Rolls-Royce went on sale in Hungary recently , joining the many Mercedes and BMW cars that have recently flooded the country , particularly in 1989 .
8 management services and branches and what systems have been reduced and the branches that have actually kept the ones they 're on to .
9 In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations .
10 Otherwise , the figures on present-day variations strongly suggest that since then it is nasal environments that have subsequently led the change , closely followed by fricative and voiced stop environments .
11 Another , less direct , observation which suggests that song serves to stimulate females is that males in polygamous species of North American wren have more complex songs than have closely related monogamous species .
12 When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ .
13 That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out .
14 You will find that since Mr Madison 's British visitors left Washington , we have added a number of attractions and have greatly improved the roads .
15 Observers have simply failed to remark the scientific nature of much of the thinking of so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples and have perhaps overstated the ‘ scientific ’ nature of thinking in their own societies .
16 The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement .
17 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
18 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
19 Several Q.T 's have joined us over the months and have greatly enjoyed getting to know the students and working with them .
20 Landowners have bought old farms for use as holiday homes and have then claimed planning permission to house local workers , provide employment and manage the land .
21 Population growth , the need for foreign currency earnings , and foreign aid have , in the past three or four decades , stimulated agricultural development in developing nations and have thus prompted environmental change .
22 Leaving aside the famous names , which will inevitably be more costly , great numbers of obscure and humble folk have chosen this friendly and attractive method of identifying their precious books and have thereby secured a small niche in the history of bibliophily .
23 In order to look at the effect that financial devolution , in the form of LMS , is likely to have , both on schools and on the quality of education , it may be helpful to look closely at what has happened in institutions that have already experienced various levels of financial autonomy .
24 However , they also imply that there could be objects that have always travelled at faster-than light speeds .
25 The two are betting that with WinPad , they can exploit their dominant positions in the personal computer market to defeat the majors that have already tipped their hands , including AT&T Co and Apple Computer Inc .
26 The North might well observe too that it would rather be free of national economic policies that have only succeeded , over so many post-war years and through several alternating governments , in bringing the country to a level of GNP per head visibly falling behind all our respectable rivals — and some newcomers till recently beneath notice .
27 We need to understand the extent to which oppositional practices have , wittingly or unwittingly , shared the assumptions of the dominant state-led strategies that have also attempted to respond to the black presence in British education and society .
28 We can speak here of the constitutive role of religious beliefs — in the sense that they have constituted an explanation for phenomena that have subsequently proved explicable without theological reference .
29 The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) :
30 you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think
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