Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van |
| 2 | The process of de-differentiation that they celebrated has arguably increased exponentially in the past two decades . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 5 | She has clear /l/ twice — a Jamaican would be expected to have it everywhere — yet twice she has vocalisation of /l/ as in LE . |
| 6 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 7 | This writer has never attended a more populated exhibition of Old Masters and has rarely overheard so much intelligent discussion , particularly from ‘ ordinary ’ visitors . |
| 8 | There are slow tempos , though an overall timing of 55 minutes is not unduly extravagant , but the predominant impression is of the symphony 's dramatic conflicts and of Sinopoli 's remarkable ear for the subtlest details of instrumental colour : Elgar 's scoring has rarely sounded more translucent and fine-spun . |
| 9 | Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy . |
| 10 | Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy . |
| 11 | Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions . |
| 12 | Through their work jewellery ceased to be something merely ornamental but attained a level of artistic and symbolic importance it has rarely equalled since . |
| 13 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
| 14 | Since then , it has rather dropped out of sight , especially after the ECJ in Cases 144 and 145/87 , Berg and Busschers v Besselsen [ 1988 ] ECR 2559 had seemed to adopt the analysis that the transfer of the contract of employment was compulsory as to both employer and employee . |
| 15 | With the advent of the General Theory the whole of the 43′ residual could be explained to within observational uncertainties , and this was a major success for the General Theory , a success it has since built on . |
| 16 | AXA has since ploughed almost $100m more into Equitable Life , which is recovering from heavy losses on its property portfolio , and reckons it will soon see a good return on its investment . |
| 17 | Cigarette consumption among women also rose between 1972 and 1976 , from 87 to 101 and has since remained more or less constant at just over or just under 100 cigarettes per week . |
| 18 | In fairness to all three photographers , much of the interview material was old ( to include footage of Burrows ) and McCullin , and Shawcross pointed out , has since grown up . |
| 19 | His hair has since grown back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He arrived in Britain with a broken arm which has since healed well . |
| 22 | It was therefore called the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus ( or the LOB Corpus , for short ) , and has since become widely used throughout the world . |
| 23 | This new , technical use of ‘ myth ’ to mean , not a falsehood , but a truth indirectly expressed , has since become very common in theology — though not always with the same idea about what truth actually is as in Strauss . |
| 24 | He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions . |
| 25 | Lorcan Wyer who has since gone on to become one of the most stylish jockeys in England was associated with most of the Scott winners in those days . |
| 26 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 27 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 28 | It was an interpretation problem , sir , with a rather rum Nandi interpreter who has since run away . |
| 29 | The SCOTCAT network has since widened still further by the agreement of the senates of all Scottish Universities to participate . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |