Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . |
| 2 | Maybe the phrase that has become most well known in this context is ’ I 'm not a feminist , but … ’ and all the political content that that phrase may have . |
| 3 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 4 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 5 | Clothes that had hung well now fell shapelessly like charity hand-outs . |
| 6 | The chapters fall into four sections : in Teaching and Learning we review the conflicts between various demands on educational institutions , conflicts that have become more clearly defined in recent years . |
| 7 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |
| 8 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 9 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 10 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 11 | Her parents had been very aware of the problems of sibling rivalry when the younger child was born and had tried very appropriately to help Mary accept the situation . |
| 12 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 13 | The RPC had been successful in getting its policy adopted by the ILP Conference but had become too closely associated with the Communists to receive continued support from the ILP . |
| 14 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |