Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlini , three attempts were made to serve documents on a defendant in Italy , trying three different addresses and two different names ; on each occasion the defendant could not be located or had already moved on . |
| 2 | ‘ the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards . |
| 3 | At the same time step-parent adoptions have been discouraged and have almost halved since the Children Act 1975 . |
| 4 | In seven cases there was acknowledged to have been a deterioration in the dependant 's condition , so that the principal carer accepted or had even requested institutional care . |
| 5 | More has been said than has actually happened . |
| 6 | I 've met people who 've said they 've , they 've enjoyed living in the flats , but all the people I 've known who 've said that have since moved out . |
| 7 | The woman columnist at the Star argued that the judge as a man had no real understanding of what the girls had suffered and had unjustifiably let the youths off lightly with seven-year and three-year prison sentences . |
| 8 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC recognises that the use of levels to describe vocational qualifications is becoming generally accepted and has therefore decided to adopt a system of levels for SVQs which is analogous to that adopted by NCVQ and NVQs . |
| 10 | It has never wavered and has consistently fought ever since for the adoption of this method . |
| 11 | If you have n't cheated and have really covered the last column , you 'll be lucky if you manage to get ten examples down and in the right places . |
| 12 | She stressed that her client only knew of the cockroach problem the day before the complaint was made and had immediately bought powder to rid the restaurant of the insects . |
| 13 | Firms have not boosted their exports as they could have done but have simply increased their profit margins on existing sales . ’ |
| 14 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 15 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |
| 16 | In both cases the success of the university sub-disciplinary segments can be seen as having partly resulted from their having found allies outside of their own organizations . |
| 17 | A month later came their second album , ‘ Levelling The Land ’ , which was well received and has now sold 200 , copies in the UK alone , giving it double gold status . |
| 18 | The vibrancers had truly believed what they 'd been taught and had never questioned anything . |
| 19 | For most of human history political domination in the shape of empires , hereditary rulers , aristocracies , has been largely taken for granted , notwithstanding sporadic revolts , so that Mosca 's ( 1896 ) observation that ‘ in all societies — from societies that are very meagrely developed and have barely attained the dawnings of civilization , down to the most advanced and peaceful societies — two classes appear — a class that rules and a class that is ruled ’ , is no more than the recognition of a historical and , as he says , ‘ obvious ’ fact . |
| 20 | Privately-held ShareVision , San Jose , California , developed and has just launched a videoconferencing product that enables Macintosh users to communicate using video , speech , graphics and data anywhere in the world over a single standard phone line . |
| 21 | Before long I was posted and had sadly to make my reluctant goodbyes to Yolande . |
| 22 | Since these reports on the aged poor were first published in the 1960s , two changes have occurred that have radically changed the financial position of many of those who have retired . |
| 23 | Winter colds with much sneezing , coryza and headache as if it would burst which is worse ( < ) motion , in a person who is chilly and wants to be warmly wrapped and has much aching in the bones . |
| 24 | Elizabeth said that the place was full of letters she had written to someone who had died and had never received them . |
| 25 | Regular Hunger Marches from the Distressed Areas to London , of which the most famous was the Jarrow March of 1936 , helped to emphasize to the more prosperous areas that unemployment had not been abolished but had merely receded . |
| 26 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 27 | In all cases , the brain has been damaged and has thus lost its ability to control motor movement in the usual fashion . |
| 28 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 29 | It is a phrase which often brings a gentle shiver of recognition — as though it is a truth we had always known but had long forgotten ; a truth concealed within our own hearts . |
| 30 | They 're discredited and have nowhere to go , ’ Paula protested . |