Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 2 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
| 3 | Perhaps Britain had to undergo painful shock treatment if she was ever to become as economically dynamic as France or West Germany . |
| 4 | Only humans have devised complicated rituals which convey mystery and respect , along with mourning and tears . |
| 5 | On May 22 Liechtenstein became the seventh member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) joining Austria , Finland , Iceland , Norway , Sweden and Switzerland ; hitherto Liechtenstein had had associate status through its customs union with Switzerland , but no vote . |
| 6 | So hotels have to avoid unreliable entertainers , and we are having to think about standard contracts , not flexible agreements . |
| 7 | Recipes for plant dyes tested and tried over generations have produced distinctive colours for wool , tweed and tartan . |
| 8 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 9 | Thus Britain has committed heavy expenditures to just those areas in which she is at a massive comparative disadvantage against the USA . |
| 10 | Thus waterhole has enhanced scientific understanding of the mechanism itself and of how currents interact to accelerate particles Brian Whalen of the NRC points out that auroral activity is known to affect radio waves and power lines and possibly the weather , too , . |
| 11 | Elsewhere tractors had scoured deep gullies separated by huge ridges that threatened to strand the little car with its wheels thrashing uselessly in space . |
| 12 | Once evolution had discovered successful ways of constructing organisms it would surely have used those same mechanisms again and again . |
| 13 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 14 | Once students have achieved Compact goals they have gained an entitlement to an offer of employment from a Compact employer . |
| 15 | Make sure you are motivated : Many women who want home births have had unsatisfactory births in hospitals and now want to give birth in the dignity of their own home . |
| 16 | What was once muscle has become plaited wood , frayed and plaited wood . |
| 17 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 18 | And now Altarus has uncovered buried treasure where most of us did n't know there was a stone to be turned over , in this two-CD set of the six Piano Sonatas by Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté . |
| 19 | Now Sega have released Arabian Fight , and ancient Eastern tale of truth , justice and the search for a beautiful princess ( makes it worth every bruise and sword slash ) . |
| 20 | Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals . |
| 21 | We 've had fresh pasta , boil-in-the bag pasta and now Lensi have launched ready-flavoured pasta . |
| 22 | By now Alice had regained complete control of herself . |
| 23 | The East German airline Interflug and even Aeroflot have placed modest orders for the Airbus , which could quickly become vast were air corridors and airports to be opened and hard currency loans to become more freely available as Western economic assistance begins to flow . |
| 24 | The East German airline Interflug and even Aeroflot have placed modest orders for the Airbus , which could quickly become vast were air corridors and airports to be opened and hard currency loans to become more freely available as Western economic assistance begins to flow . |
| 25 | Even Bulgaria has promised free elections , though not yet set a date . |
| 26 | Well Andy 's , look how Andy 's got ginger hair . |
| 27 | Not only that , if we accept that there has been a divorce between ownership and control in the typical large company , then management has escaped effective shareholder supervision and hence possesses a broad discretion as to the ends for which the company 's power shall be used . |
| 28 | Maybe fish had developed muscular fins and crawled on to land to become amphibians ; maybe amphibians in their turn had developed water-tight skins and become reptiles ; maybe , even , some ape-like creatures had stood upright and become the ancestors of man . |
| 29 | She flopped back , exaggerating her disappointment , then let him tell her how Marshall had discovered identical knives on sale in Leather Lane . |
| 30 | Since then Honda has contributed Japanese production skills to Rover 's high-quality British workmanship to put the firm ahead of bigger rivals like American-owned Ford and Vauxhall , backed by General Motors . |