Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She said an expert believed the trolleys could have cut the brake pipes on the train or even have caused a derailment . |
| 5 | Or even have prevented the war entirely ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 24 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 25 | What appears of particular concern is that the increase in ultraviolet radiation coincides with the time when ocean surface organisms are emerging from the dark winter period and thus have had no time to adapt to the sun , let alone enhanced levels of damaging UV-B radiation . |
| 26 | ‘ By then , all my romantic ideas about marriage being special and forever had bitten the dust . ’ |
| 27 | And also have got an example here of what the earnings are . |
| 28 | In a rather different way , the estimation of the annual output of the Roman mint between about 150 and 50BC has enabled a picture to be constructed of the growth and then contraction of the liquidity of silver coinage during that period ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 29 | Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance . |
| 30 | The sun had shone so that , after their lemon meringue pie , they had come out here , where the long-haired cat danced about the lawn , and Gaily had noticed the back-gate swinging off its hinges . |