Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | The inexperienced Masters ' contestant therefore has to contend not only with the aura of the Masters but with the aura of Jack Nicklaus . |
| 3 | phenomena which have only arisen in the period of advanced capitalism in which the state has intervened directly both in the organization of production and in consumption . |
| 4 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 5 | French retail sales fell by 3.6% in the year to November , while business confidence has fallen more sharply in the past two quarters than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 6 | This , conveniently , is at a time when sterling has fallen far enough against the Deutschemark to make it potentially competitive within ERM . |
| 7 | The conclusion was that " the School has fallen off lamentably in the higher branches of education " . |
| 8 | Its autumn survey says that home owners feel that prices have now bottomed out , even though activity has fallen off significantly since the summer . |
| 9 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 10 | In Britain denominational planning has depended too exclusively on the ‘ geographical map ’ . |
| 11 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 13 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 14 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 15 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 16 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 17 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 18 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 19 | The crisis has come too quickly for the company , which only this morning was due to launch a new truck . |
| 20 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 21 | New work has looked more deeply into the toxins ' structure to find out how they do their job so specifically . |
| 22 | The provision of art and design education has grown relatively slowly in the post-war period so that in November 1979 , for example , there were only 34,707 students taking courses leading to recognized qualifications in art and design of whom 19,988 were on non-advanced courses , and 14,719 on advanced courses ; these represented just over two per cent of all students in further education studying for recognized qualifications . |
| 23 | The Polytechnic of Wales has grown very considerably during the present decade . |
| 24 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 25 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 26 | If anything , public expenditure has grown less quickly in the UK ; in 1964 it was joint third highest , with Germany , of the fourteen countries shown in Table 15.3 ; by 1989 it was only eleventh highest of those same fourteen countries . |
| 27 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 28 | Burridge ( 1969 ) has written most persuasively about the effects which fieldwork can have on the anthropologist , describing the prophetic experience this can produce . |
| 29 | This chapter has argued not only for the compatibility of faith with intellectual uncertainty , but even for the necessity of such uncertainty for faith . |
| 30 | Throughout the 1980s , Sudan has suffered not only from the disruption caused by its own civil conflict but has also experienced influxes of refugees from surrounding countries — Uganda , Ethiopia and Chad — driven by drought and war . |