Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 2 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 3 | There were two more floors above this in the keep , but the chances of Balliol having gone upstairs rather than down were remote . |
| 4 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 5 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 6 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 7 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 8 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 9 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 10 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 11 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 12 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 13 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 14 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 15 | ‘ OUP has spent considerably more than £100,000 adapting its computer system to cope with the new requirements . |
| 16 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 17 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 18 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 19 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 20 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 21 | Yesterday a spokesman for Reg Vardy said the firm and Rolls- Royce had carried out more than £1,000 worth of work to rectify the steering problem , including fitting two new road wheels . |
| 22 | Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in . |
| 23 | ‘ Instead of leading the way in the Community , Britain has trailed along behind whilst others have taken the lead . ’ |
| 24 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 25 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 26 | Senna said Mansell had braked much earlier than anticipated . |
| 27 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 28 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 29 | Taking into account that over the past year changes in Europe have proceeded vastly faster than almost everyone predicted , it is imperative that we start thinking now about what a new ‘ European security order ’ , without vast Soviet and American armies on German soil , might look like . |
| 30 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |