Example sentences of "[adv] have [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 2 | The immobile custodian of the Dock Gates did not have even the dignity of movement . |
| 3 | The Trade Unions did not have quite the grip on the economy that they have today and its effects were not absolute . |
| 4 | Well , league and cup matches may not have quite the lure of England and Australia , but , as far as I can tell , clubs are doing their utmost to keep rugby 's momentum going . |
| 5 | And now she no longer had even the conviction of her rightness to sustain her . |
| 6 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 7 | All of these ideas — and there are countless other examples — have advanced the course of science considerably : who knows where our science and scientific theory would be now had not the monolith of scientific orthodoxy stood for so long in their way ? |
| 8 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 9 | ‘ This new haka is n't having quite the effect on the opposition we 'd hoped for ’ |
| 10 | In fact , he would have elbowed the ‘ Jottings ’ long ago had not the Chairman of his Board reminded him that Nye Bevan had once found them ‘ bloody civilized ’ . |
| 11 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 12 | The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors . |
| 13 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |