Example sentences of "[verb] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 2 | Yet can not the elder referred to in the example be said to have acted morally even though he did not adhere to the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence ? |
| 3 | The intention of this law is in doubt ; the idea that it was specifically directed against Kimon , whose mother was Thracian , fails because Kimon is now thought to have died as early as 451 , too early for the law to have touched him . |
| 4 | In both the West Riding and the West Country women seem to have worked more often as weavers than has been assumed , especially towards the end of the century . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 6 | Irvine 's Society of Archers was in existence as late as the 1850s but for some reason unknown the papingo shoot appears to have ended as early as 1721 . |
| 7 | The midday sun at the time appears to have acted more dramatically than it subsequently does with mad dogs and Englishmen . |
| 8 | Although the crossbow is known to have existed as early as the fourth century , its main use was as a hunting weapon and it was not until the latter part of the twelfth century that it became a major military weapon . |
| 9 | Sometimes , Britten seems to have written more naturally when he did n't have words to set . |
| 10 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 11 | In such circumstances the state has sought to mitigate the consequences of recession on small firms although it seems to have acted more effectively when the existence of a larger company is threatened . |
| 12 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 13 | For some reason the subject of Marianne Moore came up , and he expressed disappointment that the edition of her poems which Faber 's had recently published had sold less well than expected . |