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

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1 The limes have survived that long because of the technique of coppicing .
2 Western countries have handed over more than $1 billion in aid , mainly as food , which is sold by the government as its main source of revenue .
3 But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up .
4 Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light .
5 One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP .
6 I believe that the linkages to the meteorological stations have operated more effectively than hitherto .
7 Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole .
8 With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived .
9 This effect occurs in practically any room , but it is more noticeable in concert halls or other large rooms , where the indirect sounds have to travel much further than the direct sounds , and are therefore delayed by a much greater amount .
10 She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’
11 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
12 The Jewish Museum and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have brought together more than 350 artefacts , photographs , documents and artworks exploring the relationships among African Americans and American Jews in the twentieth century .
13 It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill .
14 Certainly women 's mortality rates have improved significantly faster than those for men ( Table 3 ) , but it is difficult to come to any general conclusions about health status for the period 1870–1950 , particularly in respect to working class women .
15 Darlington Borough Council staff have sent out more than 70,000 bills which are expected to arrive today and tomorrow .
16 The idea that the rich world faces a rubbish crisis has been aggravated by the fact that in some countries new landfills have opened more slowly than old ones have closed .
17 Meanwhile , some prices have risen even faster than rents , bringing lower yields .
18 From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford .
19 Although average sales per outlet have shown a slight decrease in each of the last five years , some of our licensees have done much better than others .
20 Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped .
21 This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility .
22 Taking into account that over the past year changes in Europe have proceeded vastly faster than almost everyone predicted , it is imperative that we start thinking now about what a new ‘ European security order ’ , without vast Soviet and American armies on German soil , might look like .
23 ‘ It turned out to be pretty energy-sapping record to make , actually , but the last two albums have done pretty well so we had the luxury of doing some hit-or-miss experimentation in the studio .
24 Detectives have carried out more than 800 separate inquiries and taken over 170 statements killer .
25 But that is because love is a social emotion , not a biological one : young women do n't love sagging bellies and grey hair , they love money and power which men have to offer more often than women do .
26 Since Carol Clark 's death , caused by a blow to the neck , police have followed up more than 3,000 lines of enquiry , some of them through Interpol .
27 You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism .
28 Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances .
29 Students in London have suffered particularly badly because of the Government 's decision to make students ineligible for housing benefit .
30 We Westerners find it hard to understand or admire the growth and success of Islamic fundamentalism , but the traditional Muslims have realised far better than the ‘ progressives ’ that if you want to resist consumerism and individualism then you have to capture the public ground and control the country from the centre .
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