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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Throughout your career you have veered away from the blues into other areas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I believe that my own children have rebelled properly and decently , and found their own paths . |
| 8 | In three months sales have totalled over 234 million French francs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 1984a ) have criticized both Vining and Pallone 's and Fielding 's approaches as being too ‘ logically positivist ’ in their approach . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Numbers have fluctuated very markedly in recent years . |
| 16 | Rather than take the pessimistic view that they will remain at least this high in future , we hope that the ( slightly ) lower figures we have given instead may prove more representative of interest rate levels in the longer run . |
| 17 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 18 | If the council thinks that you have given away or used up savings in order to qualify for , or increase the amount of your benefit they can treat you as still having those savings . |
| 19 | In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals . |
| 20 | ‘ We have given away too many bad goals . ’ |
| 21 | I have given here only a superficial account of the business of signatures but sufficient , I hope , to indicate something of their history , use and worth . |
| 22 | The account of global politics that I have given here derives in part from such a paradigm , in which I emphasize the importance throughout the twentieth century of the opposition between capitalism and socialism , and more generally between those processes and policies which tend either to increase or to diminish inequality in its diverse forms , within societies and in the world as a whole . |
| 23 | The service we have given here is one without individual confession . |
| 24 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 25 | For the reasons which I have given above I do not think the court in Reg. v. Philippou were justified in reconciling Morris with Lawrence , but they were correct in following Attorney-General 's Reference ( No. 2 of 1982 ) and could have reached their conclusion without relying on Lawrence . |
| 26 | The rest of the major clubs in Scotland , meanwhile , have given unselfishly of their players to compensate for the mass withdrawal from Ibrox . |
| 27 | Only a handful of polls since Christmas have given either party the lead they would need to secure an outright majority . |
| 28 | Pastor Gunn and his fellow associates have given so much to us through their encouragement of truly living the Scriptures . |
| 29 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , considering the complexity of the interaction of minds , language , and the world , the description we have given so far is highly simplified . |