Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | I even sat on the local erm committee wi with the police authority , you know , and er we 've got all sorts of promises but nothing that has ever materialized . |
2 | It has been exploited to a degree by all human beings to hurt and control each other , and has affected the lives of everyone that has ever lived . |
3 | The Government did nothing and have apparently learnt nothing from the experience . |
4 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
5 | This filter is made up of everything that has ever happened in our life , plus our basic temperament . |
6 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
7 | Here , a chaos of carts , overthrown and jumbled together , lay topsy-turvy at the bottom of a steep unnatural hill ; there , confused treasures of iron soaked and rusted in something that had accidentally become a pond . |
8 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
9 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
10 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |
11 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
12 | One of those old elusive memories from the back of my brain returned to baffle me — a memory of something that had never happened to me . |
13 | It was not something that had ever occurred to them as possible , likely , or even , desirable . |
14 | His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him . |
15 | just in case some of you do n't have access to rec.sport.soccer , here 's something that 's just arrived : |
16 | If there is to be a fairly detailed piece of note writing it very often is a fairly near or an exact copy of something that 's already gone before . |
17 | It 's a modern affliction to look at an aircraft , something that has yet to reach its 100th birthday in our history , and take it for granted . |
18 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
19 | Something that has never felt right before . |
20 | When people make up stories , they often start from something that has really happened to them . |
21 | It is something that has deeply influenced all social life . |
22 | They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain . |
23 | A created universe , unlike one that had always existed , was one in which the Creator had been free to exercise His will in devising the laws that nature should obey . |
24 | It was not the sort I had seen in West Africa , with side-windows missing and as many chickens on board as people , but as plush as the one that had recently taken our Parish Fellowship for an evening drive around Cheshire . |
25 | ‘ And Quatermass Queen , the one with the tentacle-arms and snakes in her hair , she starts strangling this monster , the fiery-eyed one that 's just speared the Muscly Monk with his laser-beam fingertips … ’ |
26 | is that the same one that 's just gone past with it said erm snacks ? |
27 | Is this the new one that 's just come then ? |
28 | I do n't know , I felt that was , I mean , erm it 's so easy to be snobbish , but if the problems of experimentation that comes out of accident because you want to achieve an accident and you want to achieve the fall of things on the page , and the accident that occurs because , as you say , nobody 's ever told you that you 're not supposed to do that , so the accident is n't a case of reacting against a rule to test it , to see whether it would stand up to being broken , the one that 's just happened I think , I |
29 | Very dodgy position , but your the one that 's just taken up full time post |
30 | These ecological considerations , together with the economic advantages that are apparent , must commend the system as one that has successfully modified a traditional subsistence system into a more economic one without major detrimental effects . |