Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're referring , of course , to his brother Edgar , with whom he has collaborated often in the past . |
| 2 | The Committee has done so in the past , but the Government have taken no notice . |
| 3 | Solvent can kill and has done so in the past . ’ |
| 4 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 5 | Bear in mind that when the chips are down , we tend to revert to what we feel comfortable with and what we think has worked effectively in the past . |
| 6 | We know that the process of thick sedimentation followed by isostatic readjustment has happened frequently in the past , both in truly geosynclinal areas and in Voigt 's " bordering troughs " ( Randtroge ) of the shelf regions . |
| 7 | If this state of affairs continues the state will be denied an important source of legitimation for its own authority — namely the promise ( which it has held out in the past ) of a steady increase in the level of material well-being enjoyed by the population as a whole ( Poggi , 1978 ; Winkler , 1975 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ; Habermas , 1971 , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | Michael had been hitting the phone , recruiting some key staff from hotels he 'd worked in in the past . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |
| 10 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 11 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 12 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 13 | Yet it was precisely to avoid the kind of obstructionism that Britain had indulged in in the past that participation in the new structure was made conditional upon prior agreement to the principle of a supranational authority . |
| 14 | Estimates of carbon releases from the biosphere to the atmosphere in response to changes in land-use have varied enormously in the past but are now generally in the range 0.8 to 2.5 Gt of carbon per year ( Bolin , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 16 | It seems to be one of the things actually that people that are home on holiday to Orkney , you know , maybe you have lived here in the past and Orkney cheese is one of the things they want to take back with them , a farmhouse cheese . |
| 17 | Regular customers who have paid promptly in the past often justify a special letter enquiring as to their reasons & or non-payment of the current invoice . |