Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] or [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These both have a characteristic age of 16,000yr and have already reached or passed through the shell of their SNR : in so doing PSR1757–24 has apparently brightened the nearby shell by an injection of particles and magnetic field . |
| 2 | We have already discussed or referred to various forms of energy in this chapter and earlier chapters . |
| 3 | " Pre-suppose " means in effect that you have already supposed or claimed this without needing to write it down . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the best England team I have ever seen or played against . |
| 5 | You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen or dreamed about . |
| 6 | We categorically deny that we have ever cheated or tampered illegally with any match ball in any game during our careers . |
| 7 | Are your memories so short over there , or is it that you have deliberately forgotten or ignored the protests of that time . |
| 8 | Bass have now disposed or freed more than 1,400 of their pubs and another 400 are in the pipeline , according to Bass Inns and Taverns boss Charles Darby . |
| 9 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 10 | Most of the summer breeding birds have either lost or won the battle for survival by then , common seal pups have been weaned and are now learning to fend for themselves . |
| 11 | But even when that linkage has been broken by the entrance of a new press owner — Conrad Black , Rupert Murdoch , David Stevens — the newspapers in question have either maintained or reasserted their commitment to the political right . |
| 12 | Interestingly , almost a third of those exhibiting in the contemporary section , have either studied or taught at Goldsmiths ' College . |
| 13 | We can not consider the growth of technology or the growth of government as autonomous forces which are somehow independent of the set of values which have either accompanied or prompted their growth . |
| 14 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 15 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 16 | For those who have never seen or handled one of the Miller Dictionaries , it is perhaps worth mentioning that the eighth edition ( 1768 ) weighs 17½ lbs ( c.8kg ) , contains 333 folio sheets and measures 430 × 90 mm ( 666 sides of text ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |
| 18 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 19 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 20 | Except for a brief moment in 1920 ( the Hands off Russia movement ) the British working class have never thought or acted internationally . |
| 21 | For women who have never married or lived with anyone else — preferring instead to remain single — life will change in many important ways after retirement . |