Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual proclivities of no other prime minister have aroused quite the same kind of obsessive inquiry … |
| 2 | These proprietors retain the potential to exercise political power : indeed , they have used their ownership to chart the political direction of their newspapers , but they have stopped well short of using their newspapers to make demands of the political system in the manner of the press barons of the 1930s . |
| 3 | The cynics who have stopped by to check out the television cameras quip that Bill Clinton , the front-runner and Mr Brown 's target , will be along shortly . |
| 4 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |
| 5 | Throughout your career you have veered away from the blues into other areas . |
| 6 | If the D6 roll is more than the distance you have veered away then the Doom Diver has over compensated and the template is moved over and beyond the target the full distance roll . |
| 7 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 8 | I believe that my own children have rebelled properly and decently , and found their own paths . |
| 9 | In three months sales have totalled over 234 million French francs . |
| 10 | His transfers from Wealdstone , to Wimbledon , to Leeds , on to Sheffield United , Chelsea and now Wimbledon again have totalled almost £3 million , but the enormity of that sum is nothing compared to his roguish reputation . |
| 11 | ( 1984a ) have criticized both Vining and Pallone 's and Fielding 's approaches as being too ‘ logically positivist ’ in their approach . |
| 12 | The separation of assessment from provision which I have criticized elsewhere ( Huxley , 1992 ) is seen by many people involved in the community care reforms as the way to achieve the movement from a service-led to a needs-led approach . |
| 13 | In the future , therefore , we must encourage publishers to be a little more forthcoming about the basis on which they offer readability data , and look carefully to see whether what they have calculated really is the population mean of the book in question . |
| 14 | Its designers have calculated how its reliability increases with more memory . |
| 15 | Now the red blood cells and so on have leaked out into the surrounding tissues . |
| 16 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 17 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 18 | Numbers have fluctuated very markedly in recent years . |
| 19 | You have given up your rank of Sergeant to run all over these hills . |
| 20 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 21 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 22 | I have given up begging to be taken back into service since it is plain Annunciata is preferred . |
| 23 | But would she have endured a Jack on whom she had forced her will , who would sadly , perhaps resentfully , have given up what he desired in order to please his possessive wife ? |
| 24 | They have given up reading texts and treat the water as their scripture , their Bible , their Koran , from which they are constantly teasing out ingenious interpretations of hidden , secret messages . |
| 25 | The good news is that , once you have given up smoking and sufficient time has elapsed for the nicotine to clear your system , your memory and mental ability is likely to be just as good as that of someone who has never smoked . |
| 26 | Apathy is a state of mind in which we have given up and no longer exercise control over our lives . |
| 27 | SCIENTISTS from Canada and the United States have given up attempts to agree about what effect acid rain is having on the environment of North America . |
| 28 | It is very important that teenagers should never feel rejected by their parents , either because the parents really have given up on them or else because they treat them with coldness and apparent disapproval or dislike . |
| 29 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 30 | The other problem is with the suckers which attach the hangar to the tank — they have given up sucking . |