Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 2 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 3 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 4 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 5 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 6 | Since the problems at Strangeways , prison violence has rarely appeared in the headlines , but John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers Association says that does n't mean violence in our jails has decreased . |
| 7 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 8 | The military-technical qualifications of GlavPU officers has vastly improved since the 1950s . |
| 9 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 10 | In 1985 , ESP also added testing of submersible motors to their list of services — a list that has since grown by the addition of testing protectors , PSIs and cable . |
| 11 | The recommendations are similar to comments from Roger Carr , former chairman of the Countryside Commission ( which has since merged with the Nature Conservancy Council to form SNH ) , and John Foster , ex-director of the commission . |
| 12 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 13 | The port has since migrated down the river Scheldt towards the sea ; galleries of contemporary art have moved in , nestling around new museums of photography and modern art . |
| 14 | A rumour has since flown around the circuit that poor Jimbob 's bruises are not particularly pretty . |
| 15 | for instance , in May 1987 it found John Craven of phoenix Securities to be the new chief executive of Morgan Grenfell , another assignment on behalf of Sir Peter Carey , who has since moved from the Department of Trade to become chairman of this major merchant bank . |
| 16 | Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month . |
| 17 | In June , we have a session by one of our own qualified teachers , Ilana Machover , who has since trained in the Alexander Technique . |
| 18 | Holiday , who has since apologised for the incident , also admitted causing £300 damage to bottles of wine , champagne , glasses , a chair and an electric fan . |
| 19 | This has since expanded into a professionally organised system covering the whole country , but we should not forget that it was Harry Barber who began it . |
| 20 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
| 21 | Mr Rosie , who has since resigned from the council , had contacted Orkney and Shetland MP Jim Wallace and the Scottish Office to try to discover the cause of the delay in settling the matter . |
| 22 | First seen alongside Neneh Cherry , singing and standing on her head with the early-Eighties cult dance band Rip Rig And Panic , Andrea Oliver has since sung with a variety of outfits and , in between organising and cooking for a weekly night at West London 's Globe club , has recently joined forces with Malcolm Joseph ( previously with soul band Seventh Heaven ) to form new band , Her . |
| 23 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 24 | This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task . |
| 25 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 26 | VICKI WOODS ( Pamella Bordes , page 184 ) started her career as a sub-editor for Harpers & Queen and has since worked at the Radio Times , Tatler and the Daily Mail . |
| 27 | Robert Southam spent school holidays with the National Youth Theatre , read modern languages at Oxford and has since worked as an actor at some of England 's leading provincial theatres ( Manchester , Sheffield , Guildford etc. ) , in London , with Grotowski 's company in Venice and for BBC Radio . |
| 28 | He has since performed throughout the world . |
| 29 | Fujitsu Ltd says it has successfully implemented of the world 's fastest Gallium Arsenide gate array . |
| 30 | He is aware that as his Property Services Department ( Grounds Maintenance ) has successfully bid for the Lincolnshire contract , his quality of service to school is a key element in our future preparedness to pay our bill . |