Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] have " in BNC.

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1 Some countries have a bad reputation for crime and expatriates are naturally concerned about their chances of being mugged or having their home burgled .
2 Where invoices recorded on the statement have not been received or have been mislaid , copies will be required from the supplier .
3 ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . )
4 Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away .
5 The acquirer will want to be sure that grants will not be withdrawn or have to be repaid .
6 The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education .
7 Asked whether Mr McCrickard had jumped or had been pushed , Sir Nicholas stressed that the golden handshake was not ‘ hush money ’ , adding that the resignation had been mutually agreed following restructuring talks .
8 We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money .
9 I 'm sure you 've heard or have you heard about priests when say a priest has a vocation , a call from God ?
10 When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days .
11 At the end of each tax year the DHSS takes the figure for your PAYE earnings and any credits , and calculates whether you have earned or had credits of more than the lower earnings limit .
12 Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers .
13 erm most of the sites , and there are quite a large number of sites in Oxfordshire , are privately owned or have been privately subscribed .
14 … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women .
15 The safest course , in view of the Revenue 's Statement , must be either to complete the transfer ( if by agreement ) before the marriage is dissolved or to have the transfer made the subject of a court order and so usually fall within the provisions of s10(1) .
16 However , a booster of diphtheria vaccine is recommended , even for a short trip to Russia , if the traveller is not vaccinated or has not had a booster dose within 10 years .
17 Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case .
18 I know , I went through a period of a very much milder popularity in the United States in the seventies , nothing like what Neville has enjoyed or has been squashed by , which maybe is lucky for me , but the idea was that erm Rolling Stone , when I was doing it , became very heavily innovative and there was like countless magazines , you know weekly newspapers in different cities , sections of dailies , everything , that started looking like Rolling Stone there for a while .
19 start as we should AIM TO visit/contact every customer who has not responded or has responded negatively to ascertain the reasons why and endeavour
20 With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for .
21 Merlini , three attempts were made to serve documents on a defendant in Italy , trying three different addresses and two different names ; on each occasion the defendant could not be located or had already moved on .
22 For this ‘ crime ’ , many of them were fined or had their goods confiscated , and others were imprisoned .
23 BAINBRIDGE is a handsome little village on the Hawes-Leyburn road with a broad village green , complete with village stocks , where miscreants of olden days , instead of being fined or having their licences endorsed , were pelted with rotten garbage and sometimes even worse .
24 The Law Society will have powers to suspend a solicitor convicted of a serious crime from practice before taking disciplinary proceedings , and to intervene in the practices of solicitors who are incapacitated or have abandoned their practices .
25 Yes , and he had n't even earned that had he ?
26 You 've really enjoyed that have n't you ?
27 Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) .
28 Although not defined under the Road Traffic Act it is considered that having regard to the spirit of the legislation that the definition used in other Acts would apply viz : Includes any place to which the public have access whether on payment or otherwise , e.g. fields where the public can park for a race meeting or traction engine rally , footpaths or bridleways ( unless the Act states otherwise : see section 22A ( 5 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ) , or anywhere where the public could be at risk from mechanically propelled vehicles .
29 ‘ the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards .
30 to take such steps as are necessary to secure that there will be available in connection with the use of the article at work adequate information about the use for which it is designed and has been tested , and about any conditions necessary to endure that , when put to that use , it will be safe and without risks to health . ’
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