Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 2 | One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Indeed , IXI claims one of Sun 's European offices has already brought in a Motif-based solution to use in-house . |
| 8 | My ears had certainly pricked up when Sally mentioned Mike Martinez . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 12 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 13 | The last words had simply slipped out . |
| 14 | The words had all tumbled out , one upon another . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One by one , true believers have either died off or slipped away into the post-Modern or revivalist camp under one pretext or another . |
| 18 | Some schools have even knocked down walls to increase the space . |
| 19 | Seventeen schools have already opted out in Gloucestershire . |
| 20 | Seventeen schools have already opted out in Gloucestershire . |
| 21 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
| 22 | British Waterways have also topped up stocks in the same watercourse below Thwaites Mill . |
| 23 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 24 | ‘ The kids have never looked back . |
| 25 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 26 | Battells have also pointed out that they very often receive separate orders from the same areas and it is suggested that to save on carriage etc . |
| 27 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 28 | Most clients have usually chipped in with some comment by now . ’ |
| 29 | About half a dozen big black cars have just pulled up outside . ’ |
| 30 | Ironically , the soap 's ratings have recently picked up . |