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

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1 Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery .
2 The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road .
3 Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles .
4 The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened .
5 One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina .
6 The arguments for the development of the media industries of regional cities has always had both economic and cultural aspects .
7 None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high .
8 It backs onto a couple of euphemisms , the Civic Amenity Site and the abattoir , and a valuable pond which attracted migrating birds has regularly dried up in the summer .
9 Foreign direct investment by manufacturers has also grown rapidly over the past decade as firms chased lower costs , moved closer to their markets and tried to dodge protectionist barriers .
10 The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again .
11 Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes
12 Indeed , IXI claims one of Sun 's European offices has already brought in a Motif-based solution to use in-house .
13 My ears had certainly pricked up when Sally mentioned Mike Martinez .
14 Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves .
15 Many clergy , especially the royal servants among them , began to buy pardons as early as February , and in York province , which was more immediately threatened with Scottish invasion , the vast majority of the clergy had soon done so .
16 One episode is , however , enough to show that the Babylonian Jews had not drifted away .
17 Dogs gasped and changed places ; long ago cushions and covers had placidly yielded up their colours ; Aunt Tossie 's parrots fainted into their backgrounds , curtains dangled the edges of their rotten linings in the glare ; the evening was brimmed with lassitude .
18 After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in .
19 First , a lot of these lads had n't done very well at school , so the training provides them with a better chance of a fresh start once they have paid off their debt to society .
20 She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out .
21 The last words had simply slipped out .
22 The words had all tumbled out , one upon another .
23 For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating .
24 Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out .
25 When the timber blocks replacing the bricks had sufficiently burned away , the chimney collapsed , throwing the stone coping well down the incline .
26 His words have really come home to me this week .
27 Lured by stories of pickers making up to $1,000 in a single day , unemployed loggers , SouthEast Asian immigrants and garden-variety opportunists have all rushed in .
28 ‘ I 'm surprised the Barnet fans have n't got together to try to get the club taken over and I 'm also surprised that Barry Fry is still there . ’
29 One by one , true believers have either died off or slipped away into the post-Modern or revivalist camp under one pretext or another .
30 Some schools have even knocked down walls to increase the space .
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