Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession .
2 ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . '
3 With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting .
4 I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’
5 Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ .
6 Kevin McKenna , from Manchester Wythenshaw , said : ‘ No industry has failed as comprehensively as the prison industry .
7 I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case .
8 As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy .
9 Our business investment has increased more rapidly than in any other major economy except Japan .
10 One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown .
11 Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes .
12 Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ .
13 Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances :
14 She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did .
15 Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out .
16 The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope .
17 His plan had misfired as badly as mine .
18 Yet they , too , complain of aches and pains , of being squeezed by a ‘ credit crunch ’ under which borrowing has become harder even while interest rates have been falling .
19 Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd admitted : ‘ The announcement has come out earlier than we intended . ’
20 The Group has taken on more than 30 schools in the mining communities in an effort to improve the standard of education among the disadvantaged groups of the community .
21 ( Lutyens ’ fame had grown not least because he was a great friend of the editor of Country Life , and likewise Voysey knew the editor of The Studio . )
22 The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader .
23 The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this .
24 When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea .
25 Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light .
26 Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole .
27 As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so the evening mist was rising now , and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her .
28 By the 1980s the prevailing agenda had shifted yet again as Latin America , Africa and Asia came increasingly to the centre of Catholic concern with liberation theology upon the one side , inculturation upon the other .
29 The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " .
30 In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception .
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