Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tidal braking would therefore be greatest around perihelion , and it is this that has presumably led to the partial synchronization observed . |
| 2 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 3 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 4 | The military-technical qualifications of GlavPU officers has vastly improved since the 1950s . |
| 5 | In business , an employee near retirement age may well be given a job with a grand title in a department which has little influence in the overall scheme of things . |
| 6 | Dr Donald Clarke , of the British National Party , was not present and a show of hands suggested he has little support at the independent girls ' school . |
| 7 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
| 8 | The scale of the disaster which has slowly emerged over the past four days has shaken those who are working to tackle the crisis . |
| 9 | Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position . |
| 10 | A reply has eventually arrived from the National Dairy Council . |
| 11 | More than half the money borrowed by Mexico , Venezuela and Argentina during the last ten years has effectively flowed out the back door , often in the same year or month it flowed in . |
| 12 | Indeed , the Court of Appeal has indicated that the law laid down in Lonrho has effectively resulted in the unlawful means category no longer existing in any meaningful form ; but until the law is finally clarified by the House of Lords it seems justifiable to continue to speak of two forms of the tort . |
| 13 | ‘ Someone has obviously interfered with the neural net . |
| 14 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 15 | According to Prof Friel , who left home in 1968 to work in England , self-confidence among Derry people has only emerged in the last few years . |
| 16 | Hence the parser has only to decide on the syntactic structure that can be made from combining these different parts of speech . |
| 17 | Cram , who has hardly set the world alight this year with just one win in four races during a campaign disrupted by inevitable calf and hamstring trouble , has only flirted with the odd 5,000m race in the past . |
| 18 | One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment . |
| 19 | One has only to look at the economic forecasts . |
| 20 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 21 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 22 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |
| 23 | One has only to think of the remarkable story of growing , harvesting , and weaving cotton with its social and industrial history to realize the enormous learning potential of such a project . |
| 24 | One has only to think of the British motorcycle industry and its once-prime position to see the folly of believing you can sustain a world leading position without constant innovation . |
| 25 | Although Southall itself may be deemed ’ safe ’ from racial attacks , one has only to step outside the 4 sq miles to realise the extent to which women 's lives are determined by the fear of violence . |
| 26 | The realization that these three systems can interact , and the identification of the mechanisms involved , has only come within the past few years . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher has merely utilized to the full the scope for untrammelled power latent in the British Constitution but obscured by the hesitancy and scruples of previous , consensus-based , political leaders . |
| 28 | The development of this zone appears to be related to the major underthrusting and associated metamorphism of local rocks that has apparently occurred along the Main Central Thrust some 100–200 km to the south of the Indus-Tsangpo suture zone . |
| 29 | Major has swiftly moved towards the middle ground of politics . |
| 30 | The use of oils in the kitchen has greatly increased in the last few decades , influenced by foreign travel and the subsequent awareness of international cuisine . |