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

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1 It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern .
2 Finally , there are two general principles of delegation that have certainly stood the test of time .
3 I justify myself on the grounds that I do n't indulge in idle gossip and have never sought to aggrandise myself or to do harm to others .
4 Young people three , four years out of college and have never had a job .
5 Since then the demand for cotton has grown and after a trial range , they now produce more cotton than wool and have even added fancy cottons to their range .
6 He may , for example , have broken into her home or have violently assaulted her before attempting to have sexual intercourse .
7 Departments are alive , however , to recent developments in language work and have successfully integrated new ideas and procedures into the traditional course structure .
8 We have long sought parliamentary protection against the common law and have already accepted some state interference in our rulebooks .
9 But perhaps someone from Midland can explain how they hope to attract accounts from youngsters in their first jobs who have not passed their driving test and have never had a passport .
10 ‘ Whilst you remain here with us — and let me say here and now that there will be a place here for you for as long as you wish — you will share in the life of the household and have all provided .
11 The medical association of Chile want to ban the sport and have effectively done so by prohibiting doctors from assisting at ringside .
12 I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines .
13 I have just ‘ inherited ’ a Singer KE1200 Hi-Memory knitting machine and have now found out that it is obsolete .
14 Mr Major and his cabinet are in disarray and have evidently run out of ideas and of steam .
15 An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work .
16 Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important .
17 The Millmoor club were due to give Ford a free transfer but have now indicated that they may have a change of heart following the keeper 's fine run at Scarborough .
18 My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared .
19 But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba .
20 Many medieval nicknames were of a crude , coarse , scatological kind and have now disappeared , but others of a more acceptable and apposite fashioning passed into the language as , eventually , hereditary surnames .
21 The province 's four main tournament organisations have broken away from the controlling Northern Ireland Karate Board and have now formed a rival umbrella group of their own .
22 We could n't have a social issue without reference to the regular social side of our NCT branch and have therefore emphasised the purpose of these meetings in this issue .
23 I have five portraits at Oxford University and have also painted several headmasters .
24 I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it .
25 Women participate in the national liberation struggle and have never considered they should be struggling to liberate themselves from men .
26 Lizzie says : ‘ I have 20 years ’ experience and have never had a single complaint . ’
27 Whatever the situation in which you find yourself living alone ; whether your husband or wife has left you or the children have left home ; whether your husband or wife or elderly parent has died or your flatmate has left ; whether you are starting college or a new job or have just decided to leave the family home , you must accept and make the very best of your new life .
28 This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) .
29 In fact people who have never even heard of contraception and have never stepped inside a family planning clinic still plan their families .
30 Sir : I am studying for A-levels at the moment and have just sent off my application form to study medicine at university .
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