Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 2 | In 1985 , ESP also added testing of submersible motors to their list of services — a list that has since grown by the addition of testing protectors , PSIs and cable . |
| 3 | The recommendations are similar to comments from Roger Carr , former chairman of the Countryside Commission ( which has since merged with the Nature Conservancy Council to form SNH ) , and John Foster , ex-director of the commission . |
| 4 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 5 | The port has since migrated down the river Scheldt towards the sea ; galleries of contemporary art have moved in , nestling around new museums of photography and modern art . |
| 6 | A rumour has since flown around the circuit that poor Jimbob 's bruises are not particularly pretty . |
| 7 | for instance , in May 1987 it found John Craven of phoenix Securities to be the new chief executive of Morgan Grenfell , another assignment on behalf of Sir Peter Carey , who has since moved from the Department of Trade to become chairman of this major merchant bank . |
| 8 | Holiday , who has since apologised for the incident , also admitted causing £300 damage to bottles of wine , champagne , glasses , a chair and an electric fan . |
| 9 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
| 10 | Mr Rosie , who has since resigned from the council , had contacted Orkney and Shetland MP Jim Wallace and the Scottish Office to try to discover the cause of the delay in settling the matter . |
| 11 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 12 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 13 | VICKI WOODS ( Pamella Bordes , page 184 ) started her career as a sub-editor for Harpers & Queen and has since worked at the Radio Times , Tatler and the Daily Mail . |
| 14 | He has since performed throughout the world . |
| 15 | Fujitsu Ltd says it has successfully implemented of the world 's fastest Gallium Arsenide gate array . |
| 16 | THE United States has discreetly intervened in the gathering of Lebanese parliamentarians in Taif by sending two State Department officials to emphasise Washington 's support for political reform in Lebanon . |
| 17 | Each of the half-dozen military regimes since then has eventually foundered on the strength of the miners . |
| 18 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 19 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 20 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 21 | It is utterly at variance with this to adopt what Andrew Wilkinson has nicely described as the role of ‘ the teacher as self-appointed proof-reader … |
| 22 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 23 | His enthusiasm has obviously appealed to the party faithful . |
| 24 | This guitar 's overall colouring has obviously darkened with the passing of over three decades , and the lacquer is now finely cracked over the close-grained spruce top . |
| 25 | Though the estate has somewhat diminished since the Weighall days it still has superbly laid-out grounds of over thirty acres . |
| 26 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 27 | The sufferers from alcoholism or any form of drug addiction would therefore be recommended to abstain from : i. all forms of alcohol , including products that contain alcohol ( such as some mouthwashes ) , communion wine that contains alcohol and food prepared with alcohol ( unless it has all evaporated in the process ) . |
| 28 | It has all happened in the past and may well happen again — and again — in the future . |
| 29 | The tour 's prestige refereeing appointment , the Barbarians game at Twickenham on 25 November , has rightly gone to the world 's best , Clive Norling . |
| 30 | Sartre 's fundamental thesis , that ‘ History continually effects totalisations of totalisations ’ ( I , 15 ) , does not in itself answer what Ronald Aronson has rightly characterized as the question for Sartre : ‘ how do separate , antagonistic actions yield a history ; how do individual totalizations lead to Totalization ( and also progress , the direction of history , its truth and its meaning ) ? ’ |