Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 2 | In a last bid for survival the programme had more recently tried to pick up social realism , taking on subjects such as bisexuality , suicide and abortion in a Catholic family . |
| 3 | It would have been unbearable in Chertsey without her , but Fate had once more intervened to bring them close together . |
| 4 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 5 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 6 | Sir Russell Johnston , MP for one of the UK 's largest constituencies , Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber , said the Chancellor had once again failed to make any differentiation between the situation of urban and rural car owners . |
| 7 | In the following example the teacher has quite deliberately sought to initiate interest in the comparison of ages and heights , by arranging for older brothers and sisters to visit the group . |
| 8 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 9 | Want was all he could do , for his body had long ago ceased to function in that way . |
| 10 | ‘ A new demand is spreading through the market like wildfire and Bolt Head has quite simply failed to spot it . |
| 11 | Revived , go back in the lunch hour to the apartment building , even if the landlord has twice more refused to come to the telephone . |
| 12 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 13 | One beach has so far managed to stay comparatively healthy . |
| 14 | To these points I must agree that it appears that the NIH has most reprehensibly sought to exploit the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) crisis to its own ends . |
| 15 | Plans are far from fixed , but the replacement could be be Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC , since the Japanese firm has already reportedly pledged to buy $80m worth over the next three or four years . |
| 16 | The rest of the tour have just about managed to laugh about it by now , but not Jasper . |
| 17 | Will the Leader of the House arrange for an early statement from the Lord Chancellor on the workings of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 following the collapse yesterday in Liverpool and Gravesham of several hundred poll tax cases because the Government have so far refused to introduce a commencement order to allow computer evidence to be used in the magistrates court under that Act ? |
| 18 | The new techniques were used to ‘ improve ’ existing therapy , while fundamental research into the causes of diabetes has only recently begun to yield important results . |
| 19 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
| 20 | At its Bristol Conference in April the League had once again refused to become involved in the United Front . |
| 21 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 22 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 23 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 24 | Buttimore has only recently returned to top rugby in England after two summers in Australia . |
| 25 | Buttimore has only recently returned to top rugby in England after two summers in Australia . |
| 26 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 27 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 28 | Managers at the Landing Gear factory have so far refused to confirm or deny the report that up to two hundred jobs are to go . |
| 29 | In the professional market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers , low-cost alternatives for the home user have only recently started to become available . |
| 30 | In the professional computer market graphics tablets have been around for almost as long as computers but low-cost designs for the home user have only recently started to become available . |