Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 2 | Enough has been said about this whole thing now and I just want to forget about it . ’ |
| 3 | Enough has been said in this paragraph to indicate that the justification of telescopic observations was no simple , straightforward matter . |
| 4 | I think enough has been said regarding this today , in relation to this , I think we have supported our police force , we have a fine police force in this county . |
| 5 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 6 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 7 | Sections 25 and 26 deal with the expulsion and retirement of partners as follows : s25 No majority of the partners can expel any partner unless a power to do so has been conferred by express agreement between the partners . |
| 8 | The penal system wields power over its subjects , but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack . |
| 9 | The number of blocks has been reduced by 25 per cent to 125 and the number of blocks with working interests of 10 per cent or less has been reduced by 42 per cent . |
| 10 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 11 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 12 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 13 | Considering that Ubogu had started the game with a wide bandage protecting his ears the injury was surprising and could only have been caused by heavy treatment from something metallic . |
| 14 | I stated with authorial authority that only people who knew about the way the murder was committed ( a complicated affair using an invented tree-bark that became hard when wetted ) could have done it and I implied , but with fearful fair play nowhere explicitly stated , that this knowledge could only have been gained by one of a small circle who had watched the Maharajah play a certain practical joke . |
| 15 | Such a far reaching change could ultimately only have been achieved with general Kikuyu support . |
| 16 | Balance could only have been achieved by further devaluation of European currencies against the dollar . |
| 17 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 18 | In 1983/4 , estimates of the numbers of lone-parent families seem consistently and wrongly to have been based upon early tabulations from the 1981 Census , which identified 414 298 households in Great Britain containing one or more children aged under 16 living with only one adult . |
| 19 | Although much had been achieved by 1974 Barrett argued that ‘ the best is yet to be ’ ( see also chapter 10 , p. 211 ) . |
| 20 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 21 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 22 | The largest gathering away from Chichester Harbour appears to be of 19 at Rye Harbour in February 1968 and up to 13 together have been seen on inland waters , although single birds and parties of up to five are most usual . |
| 23 | Ninety-two elements exist in nature and another dozen or so have been made by nuclear physicists . |
| 24 | Erm , the reason that that does n't tie in with the four hundred and eighty thousand pound er , increase in spending is that offsetting that seven hundred and seventeen thousand that you 've funded from your contingency , there is also a net reduction in spending by the Committee because of the changes in the devolution of central department charges and their allocation through committees , well less have been allocated to Social Services Committee in total . |
| 25 | A lot of what we throw away has been made from raw materials which are not renewable . |
| 26 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 27 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 28 | The two books may thus have been peppered with little fictions , but no sharper or livelier pictures of Mughal Delhi , with all its scandals , dramas and intrigues , have come down to us . |
| 29 | From the seventeenth until the early nineteenth century , parish records suggest that over one-half of widows would normally have been provided with regular pensions on the rates ; and still more remarkable , when compared with working-class incomes , these pensions were twice as good as those offered by state pensions today ( see Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice . |