Example sentences of "have [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own .
2 We should be vigorously selling the exciting worthwhile quality service that we have rather than selling the packaging .
3 It 's a terrible thing actually , because you always pretty much er once they work , once they to the data and people still worry about it , why have rather than some other .
4 Best stay with what we have rather than try to change for something else .
5 Very few molecules have electronic transitions below this range , in the IR region , but all molecules have most if not all of their electronic transitions in the far-UV region , above 50 000 cm -1 .
6 I have rarely if ever met a prison administrator , who does not subscribe to the doctrine that work for prisoners is the best training for life after release , and that it is also the best mechanism for running a humane and tidy prison .
7 It 's not the same situation obviously , so you have somewhere where you can be quiet on your own , reading a book , or whatever you 're going to do , not idle , but .
8 It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down .
9 Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it .
10 And though bonuses have all but disappeared , basic staff salaries remain too high — and staff numbers have yet to fall below pre-Big-Bang levels .
11 Japanese banks , once fierce competitors in the British banking market , have all but disappeared .
12 Membership of the parliamentary party has changed ; the manual workers have all but disappeared .
13 Not only this , but within the metric system itself there is standardisation , so that some of the terms with which I grew up have all but disappeared .
14 New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan .
15 And in London , where manufacturing industry and trade union strength have all but disappeared , the radicalism of the ‘ new urban left ’ was based on a coalition between white-collar unions and civil organizations built up outside work .
16 Nevertheless , with BTG required by ministers to look to short-term profitability , sources of ready funds for British biotechnology have all but dried up .
17 Two other electric vehicles , the tram and the trolleybus have all but disappeared from British streets .
18 Early rip-offs such as one-minute ( as opposed to 30-second ) billing have all but disappeared , as have contracts for longer than one year .
19 A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth .
20 Round ‘ chutes have all but disappeared , except for supply drops and emergencies in the big world outside bearland , so it is only natural that the popular Parafoil should emerge as a fauna canopy .
21 He needs to work furiously to rebuild his reputation and authority , shattered by a humiliating series of U-turns and political defeats which have all but torn asunder his party and even his Cabinet .
22 An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers .
23 In many parts of the city , family and community structures have all but collapsed .
24 These stylistic differences have gradually eroded over the years , and today regional divisions have all but disappeared .
25 His critical eye revels in the play and contrast of light on form composing the stark minimal images that have all but become his trade mark .
26 Needless to say digital phototypesetting is now the accepted standard and the older methods have all but faded away .
27 Since the adventure of their adolescence , they have had no contact with their mineral friends whom they have all but forgotten .
28 Development programmes have all but ceased .
29 But they have all but disappeared in the West .
30 Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities .
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