Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 OFFICIAL notices that have somehow come into our possession reveal vacancies on the governing bodies of both Mowden and Skerne Park infants schools in Darlington .
2 In total , taking both seasons together , he has had 13 top-10 finishes from 27 starts and has only missed three cuts .
3 In 1954 , for example , Galton and Simpson created Hancock 's Half Hour on radio : satirical playlets about the pale squalor of outer-suburban life that launched a series of tiny exercises in comic realism to replace the music-hall turns that had once dominated the BBC Light Programme : an earthy , irreverent spirit of realistic comedy translated into visual terms in 1960 , when Granada TV started Coronation Street as a comic reflection , for mass audiences , of back-street life in the urban North .
4 As Stuart Marshall observed pointedly , postmodernism authorizes but has yet to create a new populism .
5 It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe .
6 Lord Chesterfield , when discussing ‘ useful prejudices … which I should be very sorry to see removed ’ a little after the previous war , had declared that ‘ that silly , sanguine notion , which is firmly entertained here , that one Englishman can beat three Frenchmen , encourages and has sometimes enabled one Englishman in reality to beat two . ’
7 TWO new RSC shows that have just transferred from Stratford to the Barbican could not be more different .
8 Sea levels are rising by about 15 cm per century — due to temperature increases that have already occurred and which may or may not be linked with the greenhouse effect .
9 She loved him neither for his even disposition or vast estate — for neither could he offer — and saw him through many tempestuous years of attempts to influence bands and musicians to the floaty sounds that have now met such brilliant commercial success .
10 Against all the odds , it had proved to be a happy and companionable day , Ross 's unusually calm , friendly manner towards her having released much of the stresses and strains that had previously left her feeling so tense and nervous .
11 he has knowingly obtained ( whether directly or indirectly ) that information from another individual who is connected with that company , or was at any time in the six months preceding the obtaining of that information , so connected , and who the tippee knows or has reasonable cause to believe , held the information by virtue of being so connected ; and he
12 knows or has reasonable cause to believe that , because of the individual 's connection and position , it would be reasonable to expect him not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of his duties .
13 The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties .
14 Section 1(8) prohibits insiders from communicating unpublished price sensitive information to any other person ( ie not only individuals ) , if the insider knows or has reasonable cause to believe , that that person or some other person would make use of the information to deal , or counsel or procure some other person to deal on a recognized exchange in those securities to which the communicated information relates .
15 knows or has reasonable cause to believe that because of the insider 's connection and position it would be reasonable to expect the person in his position not to disclose the information except in the proper performance of his duties ; and
16 During the past decade , the zealous attempt to rid public buildings in the United States of the flimsiest traces of asbestos , and the personal damage claims that have simultaneously multiplied , have been financed to a substantial degree by the people at Lloyd 's .
17 It was an interesting walk , past once-grand Victorian houses divided into flats , past ruined buildings with caved-in roofs , past grey monumental ‘ British rule ’ edifices now put to various purposes and past modern office blocks that had already become decrepit .
18 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
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