Example sentences of "have [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such people have in the past been left to go their own way without interference . |
| 2 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 3 | ‘ Does that mean we shall see a great deal more of each other than we have in the past ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | It is one thing to maintain that victims of sexual assault have in the past suffered oppressive questioning by the police and oppressive cross-examination in court . |
| 5 | Indeed , I have in the past done so , filing pages of foolscap paper with words spangled as wildflower , natural and sweet . |
| 6 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 7 | The British people have in the past found them rather more powerful than the corporations which are popularly supposed to finance the Conservative party . |
| 8 | I have in the past been accustomed to addressing under-servants by their Christian names and saw no reason to do otherwise in this house . ’ |
| 9 | Many graduates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement period . |
| 10 | Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement . |
| 11 | They will replace a hotchpotch of weapons that these countries have in the past developed for their own use or bought from abroad . |
| 12 | Multinationals have in the past been checked by laws which require Indians to take majority shareholdings in foreign companies operating in India . |
| 13 | Above all , make an effort not to develop psychological reactions to chemicals — never assume that you are going to react to a chemical just because you have in the past . |
| 14 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 15 | The broadcasting authorities , which have in the past been accused of falling foul of the ancestors of this provision by reason of granting undue exposure to one particularly well-known candidate ( see Grieve v Douglas-Home [ 1965 ] SLT 186 ) , are now exempt ( 1983 Act , s.75(1)1 , but the press otherwise , even such a reputable journal as The Times , remains bound ( see R v Tronoh Mines and The Times publishing Co [ 1952 ] 1 All ER 697 ) . |
| 16 | They have used finance company personal loans more than women have in the past , but women now use them as much . |
| 17 | He is a lovely man and it 's good to know that he is unlikely to end up punch-drunk or fighting in circus booths , as many top boxers have in the past . |
| 18 | In residential homes a couple who want to live together and express themselves sexually have in the past received ridicule if not hostility , instead of facilitated support . |
| 19 | Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past . |
| 20 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 21 | The excavations of villas in Britain have in the past concentrated on the living quarters and almost entirely ignored the farmyards , barns and byres . |
| 22 | The three excerpts reproduced here demonstrate the complexity of the issue of family allowance or child benefit , and the mixture of motives and alliances that have in the past , and may in future , be generated by it . |
| 23 | Official reports into local government administration have in the past been extremely coy about the significance of such Partisanship for the matters they investigated . |
| 24 | Many studies of voting behaviour , educational achievement , urban development and so on , have in the past reflected the reasonable assumption that the social boundaries between the classes have been fairly clear . |
| 25 | Taking these factors into account , it is possible to list a range of forms of procedure which are , or have in the past been , found in national legislation and in practice under international conventions . |
| 26 | That is a serious charge against Christianity ; and one which has not been raised in quite the same way by other moral issues ( such as slavery ) which have in the past confronted Christians . |
| 27 | These four cases are among a great number where ministers have in the past fixed a tariff period on material that was not available to the prisoner , and which in my opinion ought to have been available to him . |
| 28 | If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past . |
| 29 | Always hopeful , I have in the past approached many players with a view to them joining Athletico . |
| 30 | ( Macaulay 1978:134 ) Problems of this kind are likely to be particularly common in divergent dialect areas where two identifiable and radically different phonologies have in the past influenced each other , later to become an integrated part of the linguistic resources available to the speech community . |