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

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1 Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy .
2 First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably .
3 But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta .
4 Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction .
5 She said an expert believed the trolleys could have cut the brake pipes on the train or even have caused a derailment .
6 Or even have prevented the war entirely ?
7 In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed .
8 The defendant must be proved to have been indifferent to an obvious risk of injury to health , or actually to have foreseen the risk but to have determined nevertheless to run it . ’
9 At the beginning of the final session , 14 September 1965 , Pope Paul entered the basilica with little of the pomp that hitherto had surrounded the papacy .
10 For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed .
11 Now she could , for a while , rest with her achievement , which was something so much greater and more mysterious than just having uttered a pack of lies , and let what was to happen next gradually formulate itself .
12 But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine .
13 I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large .
14 Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution .
15 He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light .
16 They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation .
17 In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field .
18 The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls .
19 In addition , the marker has responded as master-craftsman to apprentice , so to speak : he knows what a court report ought to be like , and so has helped the pupil-writer towards that understanding , and has directed his attention to the part where the reader was confused .
20 This is because until the commencement of the lead time period , the seller has probably not started work on the order , and so has incurred no expense .
21 Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them .
22 It turns out to be Bajazeth , and so having suffered the bitterness of defeat , he is now totally dehumanised by Tamburlaine , and is humiliated at the same time .
23 Many researchers point to some pollution control technologies , such as the building of tall stacks for power stations and large industry in order to reduce local pollution , as having increased the long-distance transport of pollutants and so having accentuated the acid rain problem ( figure 4.12 ; Patrick et al. , 1981 ) .
24 That summary of early Texan history is included , not just for general interest , but to illustrate several factors which have always been characteristic of Texan culture , and so have influenced the history of prisons in the state .
25 If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman .
26 Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle .
27 Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows .
28 ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp .
29 Scotland 's junior men beat Switzerland 7-2 and only have to beat the US today to qualify for the semi-finals .
30 He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name .
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