Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 2 | As Rhodes ( 1985 ) notes , sub-national government in the UK has developed extensively because until the 1970s it was the prime vehicle for building the welfare state . |
| 3 | The bees ' behaviour has developed phylogenetically and of course may now be regarded as a more or less necessary causal consequence of their finding food . |
| 4 | The writer , Christopher Stell , has pointed out that of some 600 ‘ architects ’ whose buildings were described in the Congregational Union 's Year Books in the nineteenth century , ‘ very few ’ are credited with having built more than one or two . |
| 5 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 6 | Lind ( 1983 : 270 ) has pointed out that in his corpus the to infinitive is six times more frequent than the bare form with inanimates . |
| 7 | Abel-Smith has pointed out that before 1911 the doctors were in conflict with the Friendly Societies about the conditions under which they were hired to care for members . |
| 8 | So my marriage has fallen apart because of these people sat here that think they know everything . |
| 9 | In this country , under his Government , unemployment is going up faster , investment is lower and production has fallen more than in any other European country . |
| 10 | Egypt has joined in because of its dependence on United States aid and good will and because of its distaste for Iraq 's bid for Arab leadership . |
| 11 | CATHERINE GRAY ex-schoolteacher who has given up because of blindness , age about forty-five . |
| 12 | But few doubt , even in Nashville , that country has boomed precisely because of its predictable format and the readiness of its lyrics to engage with the mundane ups-and-downs of life . |
| 13 | Large-scale use of set-nets in the Amazon is recent , and has come about because of the worldwide availability of cheap monofilament nylon nets . |
| 14 | That has come about because of Government policies . |
| 15 | That has come about because of our liberalisation policy and as a result of the investment moneys that British Telecom and others have available . |
| 16 | For four members of the guard , returning from a patrol of the barrack perimeter , morning has come earlier than for most . |
| 17 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |
| 18 | Not just because their popularity has grown naturally and without cartloads of bullshit , but because they 've wheedled their way out of Northern Ireland with a snarling guitar sound that benefits from an invigorating spread of influences — from techno to rap and ambient house to reggae . |
| 19 | Since the mid-1970s the proportion of stock held by non financial companies has risen partly because of the constraints placed on stockholding by banks and financial institutions . |
| 20 | Over the past ten years recorded crime has risen faster than at any time in our history . |
| 21 | Studies of the yearly growth rings of the Huon pines suggest that the temperature in the past 25 years has risen faster than at any other time since AD 900 . |
| 22 | Productivity in manufacturing has risen faster than in the past . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
| 24 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 25 | If the Secretary of State regards protecting the British coal industry and , therefore , the nation from the fluctuation in world prices as rigging the market , will he explain why he has done exactly that by rigging the market for nuclear electricity in this country ? |
| 26 | The Federal Republic of Germany has had both because of its electoral system and the decentralised way in which so much of Germany is governed , where many decisions are taken by the regions . |
| 27 | Growth in export markets has slowed down and at the same time new malting capacity has come on stream leading to a very competitive market place . |
| 28 | Floorboards , plaster , timber trim , including architraves and skirting boards , and other finishes ( including apparently impenetrable tiling ) must be removed from timber and masonry if the slightest suspicion exists that the fungus has reached beneath or behind them . |
| 29 | and Forteshegh ) to Forsey , the form in which it has stayed in and around the small area where the estate lay , close to Bridport , until the present time . |
| 30 | Roseanne star John Goodman , who was to play Fred Flintstone , has pulled out because of other commitments . |