Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy .
2 First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably .
3 But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta .
4 Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction .
5 She said an expert believed the trolleys could have cut the brake pipes on the train or even have caused a derailment .
6 Or even have prevented the war entirely ?
7 In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed .
8 The defendant must be proved to have been indifferent to an obvious risk of injury to health , or actually to have foreseen the risk but to have determined nevertheless to run it . ’
9 I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large .
10 Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution .
11 He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light .
12 They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation .
13 In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field .
14 The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls .
15 In addition , the marker has responded as master-craftsman to apprentice , so to speak : he knows what a court report ought to be like , and so has helped the pupil-writer towards that understanding , and has directed his attention to the part where the reader was confused .
16 This is because until the commencement of the lead time period , the seller has probably not started work on the order , and so has incurred no expense .
17 Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them .
18 It turns out to be Bajazeth , and so having suffered the bitterness of defeat , he is now totally dehumanised by Tamburlaine , and is humiliated at the same time .
19 Many researchers point to some pollution control technologies , such as the building of tall stacks for power stations and large industry in order to reduce local pollution , as having increased the long-distance transport of pollutants and so having accentuated the acid rain problem ( figure 4.12 ; Patrick et al. , 1981 ) .
20 That summary of early Texan history is included , not just for general interest , but to illustrate several factors which have always been characteristic of Texan culture , and so have influenced the history of prisons in the state .
21 If a more powerful lord had been shot , with a vast estate , many men might have been thrown out of work and so have borne a grudge against the gunman .
22 Whereas the bulk of athletes being attracted to this new four-pronged sport have spilled over from the more established triathlon ranks , and so have found the canoeing discipline particularly tough , Graham has the advantage of a fine record with the paddle .
23 Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows .
24 ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp .
25 Scotland 's junior men beat Switzerland 7-2 and only have to beat the US today to qualify for the semi-finals .
26 He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name .
27 ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’
28 The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend .
29 The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt .
30 But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think .
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