Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The catering manager at Butler 's contract is Neil Patterson — a chef who joined Compass six years ago and has since moved across into management . |
| 6 | Has since travelled extensively in Africa , India and South America . |
| 7 | Blackburn sent a written apology to the umpire in question and has since apologised personally to him . |
| 8 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 9 | Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton . |
| 10 | With funds to invest worth $1 billion and a reputation for picking winners , he can move markets : the gold price has since climbed rapidly by almost $15 , passing $150 an ounce for the first time since October . |
| 11 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 12 | But she has long scored highly on the qualities of being decisive , resolute , and principled , a perception helped by the Falklands war and the comparison until 1983 with Michael Foot , the Labour leader . |
| 13 | Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 16 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 17 | There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so . |
| 18 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 19 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 20 | But the main reason why interviews prove ineffective is that the interviewer has not been properly trained and has not prepared thoroughly for the task . |
| 21 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 22 | Possible conflicts were discussed within TI , he admits , and ‘ we decided in principle that TI would come first ’ but , as yet , he has not disagreed vehemently with anything the ASB has produced . |
| 23 | Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents . |
| 24 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 25 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 26 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 27 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years . |
| 30 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |