Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the privatization of BT in 1984 the problem of company valuation and the pricing of shares has received much informed and uninformed comment . |
| 2 | The Prince of Wales has criticized both developed and developing nations for failing to take steps to safeguard the global environment . |
| 3 | We notice the past tense : Wordsworth has omitted here to mention that these small proprietors depended on the cottage industries , which were taken away when the factory system had become established , so that in Wordsworth 's lifetime the statesmen declined . |
| 4 | He has said enough to ensure that we will take his point . |
| 5 | This has raised far reaching and important issues of conscience since the Code was first published . |
| 6 | As a response to events and ideas , economic life has become increasingly politicised and the workings of a modern mixed economy effected by a social contract between government , the corporate sector and the trade unions . |
| 7 | To revert to my opening discussion for a moment , one might say that the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego represented above all in the taboos on incest and aggression against the father has become severely exacerbated and that , if Freud felt that in his day the balance was too far on the side of society and the superego , today it has swung too far in the direction of the individual and the id ; for it is clear that a balance between these two opposing fundamental forces is the essence of human existence . |
| 8 | There is one small river at Ebenat , but that has become so polluted that the relief workers have to bring in water by tanker . |
| 9 | In some cases land has become so degraded that it is agriculturally worthless . |
| 10 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 11 | The fundamental problem with the CAP is that , in an attempt to keep farmers on the land , the price mechanism has become so distorted that none of its objectives is now being realised , and at a high cost . |
| 12 | The return of South Africa to international sport has brought both delight and discussion , depending on which side of the fence you sit . |
| 13 | Stoddard 's working capital has remained tightly controlled and the new controls at Sekers will make substantial inroads into its borrowings . |
| 14 | That each stage of education and training can build on what has gone before requires that the manager at each stage should know what is happening elsewhere . |
| 15 | He has resisted both pulls until he has assembled all the information he thinks relevant , the test of relevance being whether it does in fact strengthen one pull in relation to the other . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman may choose to ignore developments in Europe , but what has happened there means that a different form and structure of government , a newly developed decision-making arena , will result from the Maastricht discussions . |
| 17 | A Clydesdale crew has admitted mistakenly racing and winning at restricted two level in the recent Prontaprint Fours Head . |
| 18 | Partly for his own protection , their coach , Alan Davies , has striven hard to ensure that the heroic , but precarious victory over England was kept in perspective . |
| 19 | Wright has described both ISAM and VSAM files as applied to bubble memory , taking account of the particular design requirements imposed by bubble memory . |
| 20 | The state has managed both to condone and to condemn prostitution . |
| 21 | Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take . |
| 22 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 23 | If the men did n't move off , the woman visitor would have had to remain completely veiled as well as masked . |
| 24 | It seemed artificially produced , as if in an attempt to control any quavering she had had to gather both breath and energy to produce the measured cadences . |
| 25 | One of the reasons for increasing public concern about odours is because industry of all types , from animal husbandry to chemical plants has had to become more concentrated because of ‘ economies of scale ’ , and the chemical industry in particular has also extended its range of manufactured chemicals . |
| 26 | She would have to go downstairs to find and fetch a new one from the store cupboard in the kitchen . |
| 27 | The priest could n't have looked more relieved if he had completed a mission to those that dwell in the waters that are below the earth . |
| 28 | Someone must have come indoors to turn that light on . |
| 29 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 30 | ‘ Even if he had desired it , he could scarcely have done more to ensure that the Khans would support Nogai 's will . ’ |