Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date , Dunrossness has received by far the largest proportion of the immigration of young professionals associated with various oil-rig servicing industries , based at Shetland 's major airport . |
| 2 | Of these , technology has had by far the greatest impact , by permitting structural changes in internationally linked production systems . |
| 3 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |
| 4 | The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency . |
| 5 | It has remained at approximately the same latitude since its discovery but it has changed in size , reaching its maximum size of 40 000 × 13 000 km about 100 years ago . |
| 6 | Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife . |
| 7 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 8 | In the past , however , the spent fuel from both civil and military reactors has gone through exactly the same reprocessing line at Sellafield . |
| 9 | But every cave is unique — none will have formed in exactly the same way . |
| 10 | It would have stopped in exactly the same way if only one of the two had stepped on his pedal . |
| 11 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 12 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 13 | Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby . |
| 14 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 15 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 16 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 17 | Keegan said : ‘ If I sold him , I would only have to spend at least the same amount on a replacement . ’ |
| 18 | If they do , the computer flowers will have evolved under exactly the same selection pressure as caused real flowers to evolve in the wild . |
| 19 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 20 | The fact that the tropics appear to have remained at approximately the present temperature despite major changed in the Equator-to-pole temperature difference ( and the associated heat flux out of the tropics ) strongly suggests the presence of some stabilizing mechanism for the tropics . |
| 21 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 22 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 23 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 24 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 25 | I think you 've come to really the wrong committee to try and get money . |
| 26 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 27 | As I speak , a chance now for Martin Foyle ; Foyle has scored for Oxford , he 's done it , Oxford have pulled one back , tremendous through ball for Martin Foyle , he cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one and the goal coming from Martin Foyle . |
| 28 | He cheeked his way round the goalkeeper , put it in with the side of his foot , so you 've come at exactly the right time , thirty one minutes gone , Spurs two , Oxford United one . |
| 29 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 30 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |