Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
| 2 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 3 | Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions . |
| 4 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 5 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 6 | Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America . |
| 7 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 8 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Remember , Glenn has only lost twice in seven years , once to lose his title to Jeff Lampkin and the other at heavyweight to Lennox Lewis . |
| 10 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 11 | Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents . |
| 12 | But England has not done well in test matches lately — partly , the experts say , because neither one-day nor three-day games are a proper preparation for five-day tests . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 14 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 15 | They will certainly have the fullest support of my Department and the Government in that and I hope that they will have the fullest support of Opposition Members , too , although that has not come through in this debate . |
| 16 | Black gravel shows the fish 's colours well , but has not caught on in Britain as much as in Europe . |
| 17 | A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country . |
| 18 | A major balance of payments deficit when the economy is in deep recession has not occurred before in this country . |
| 19 | The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise . |
| 20 | Housing has not figured prominently in inner-urban policy . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Diana , who has not figured regularly in up-market births col-umns since the Fifties , again fails to make a mark . |
| 22 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the first was published , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn[000] . |
| 23 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn . |
| 24 | Budgets for prisons have hardly kept pace with inflation , and , despite occasional lip-service commitment to reform , the policy of the British before 1947- to run gaols as cheaply as possible — has not changed significantly in practice ( Baxi 1982 ; Khan and Chilad 1982 ; Bhatacharya 1985 ; Gokhale and Sohoni 1988 ) . |
| 25 | The culture of Physics has not changed greatly in recent years . |
| 26 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 27 | Paul Langford 's ‘ A Polite and Commercial People , England 1727–83 ’ has just come out in paperback ( Oxford , £10.95 ) . |
| 28 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |
| 29 | He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that . |
| 30 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |