Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier .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 Yeah , but there ca n't be there ca n't be enough o , enough erm te ten thousands and this has to go right up to the top .
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 It has fallen too often into a dull middle ground .
8 In these circumstances the Soviet Union has pressed more recently for a more limited regime for the Gulf involving restrictions on the naval presence of the Great Powers in the region .
9 In Britain denominational planning has depended too exclusively on the ‘ geographical map ’ .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country .
13 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 .
14 McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago .
15 It looks as if it has come straight out of a childrens ’ story book , for it is round with cosy little windows peeping out of the almost conical thatched roof .
16 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 .
17 The crisis has come too quickly for the company , which only this morning was due to launch a new truck .
18 However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled .
19 You know er it has to come really out of the Christmas Fair or Sir 's donations , something unallocated .
20 For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present .
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 An ordinary little firm that has operated perfectly cheerfully with a clerk and a few assistants over the years , is it actually a practical proposition to install the computer and perhaps train one or two of the workers to use it ?
28 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 .
29 Burridge ( 1969 ) has written most persuasively about the effects which fieldwork can have on the anthropologist , describing the prophetic experience this can produce .
30 One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it .
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