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

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1 The technique has indeed opened up a whole new area of meiotic investigation in the male .
2 The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ .
3 IBM Corp has now fallen back on the reliable method of pre-announcement for its OS/2 promotion campaign .
4 IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner .
5 Such lobbying has always gone on , but now with closer media scrutiny , things are more in the open .
6 His hair has since grown back .
7 I 've no teeth now , and my hair has all fallen out , but I can still think — and remember .
8 But although this burst of new direction has logically exploded out of Paris , the world 's fashion capital , the energy and creativity emerging from countries with traditionally low fashion profiles is what is truly intriguing and inspiring .
9 Politicised Islam has inevitably thrown up a new type of politician .
10 Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly .
11 Parliament has even laid down some rules for controlling the meetings of local authorities .
12 However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled .
13 YOUR computer has just broken down .
14 Amazing as it must seem to non-Americans , skirmishing for the Republican presidential nomination for the 1996 election has already broken out .
15 And his research at Cranfield University has finally paid off .
16 The ministry has already sounded out robot firms about joining the project , which will bring government laboratories universities and research institutes together with the private sector .
17 By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position .
18 The net result , say some officials , is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields .
19 That money has now dried up .
20 A TELEPHONE moan line that promised to pass complaints about British Rail to the chairman has mysteriously shut down .
21 The Gulf Families Association has now wound up but Mr Lloyd still takes an active role in the Gulf Crisis Line … a counselling charity for servicemen and their families .
22 But in successive writings Hare has gradually worked around to seeing the account of the very meaning of ethical language which he regards as correct as offering a kind of proof of utilitarianism .
23 She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes .
24 So far as the attitude to his obstruction is concerned , the essence is that it must be shown that the defendant has deliberately brought about the state of affairs that makes it more difficult for the police to do their duties , and is aware that he has done so .
25 And David Goldsmith has also sorted out the best buys in powder snow equipment , so you are prepared for the exhilaration .
26 Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one .
27 This regional literacy programme has really taken off .
28 The merits of the programme itself are debated below , but in spite of considerable resources expended , the programme has never taken on its comprehensive scope .
29 It 's as if my mind has suddenly broken through into a new area , a space , a vast capacity which I never dreamt I had .
30 The highways department has also ruled out police-style speed detector guns because of inaccuracy .
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