Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] have [adv] [vb pp] " 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 TWO new RSC shows that have just transferred from Stratford to the Barbican could not be more different .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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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