Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie .
2 There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated .
3 Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks .
4 Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ?
5 While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House .
6 Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night .
7 Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR .
8 Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR .
9 However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years .
10 The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years .
11 The author , an American journalist , has travelled widely in the Balkans , and has lived in Greece .
12 Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next .
13 The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out in the House that nearly 50 per cent .
14 The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent .
15 I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent .
16 In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years .
17 Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . "
18 Similarly , GDFCF has fallen substantially in the recession years of the late 198()s and early 1990s .
19 They 're referring , of course , to his brother Edgar , with whom he has collaborated often in the past .
20 This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today .
21 Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy .
22 When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years .
23 He has to work hard in the fields .
24 The closure problem has come through in the appearance of another function F in the equation for E ; F is related to the Fourier transform of the triple correlation .
25 THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) .
26 The major obstacle to the restoration of Mantegna 's first documented work has always been a lack of funds , but now a sponsor has come forward in the shape of Francesco Piccolo Brunelli , an engineering contractor of Venetian origin , who lives in Africa .
27 It is difficult to actually say that it has formed a satisfactory basis because in in effect , the amount of land that has come forward in the city has been below the the figure that was allocated in the original structure plan .
28 Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been .
29 Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that .
30 Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years .
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