Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain human rights treaties grant individuals access to international arenas , when the State in question has expressly agreed to this procedure . |
| 2 | By the mid-century , the novelist 's art has entirely changed in this respect : extensive description of living space is no longer the rare exception but the rule . |
| 3 | I am just sorry it has all ended in this way . |
| 4 | Sir , — Now that the dust has finally settled on this election we may pause to reflect on what has undoubtedly been one of the dirtiest , and most depressing of exercises in political chicanery . |
| 5 | ‘ The Impressionist and the City : Pissarro 's Series ’ opened at the Dallas Museum of Art last month ( until 31 January 1993 ) and will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 7 March-6 June 1993 ) and at London 's Royal Academy of Arts ( 2 July-10 October 1993 ) , which has already contributed to this debate with its recent exhibitions of ‘ Monet in the Nineties ’ ( 1990 ) and ‘ Alfred Sisley ’ ( 1992 ) in which the later works were strongly featured . |
| 6 | Michael Burr ( West of Scotland Agricultural College ) in his Report ( September 1982 ) on Tourism and Farming in the French Alps has already written about this subject in detail . |
| 7 | In particular it will help to resolve the deep paradox that has already surfaced in this book and will continue to do so : how it is that the same features of individuality can be expressed in such totally disparate forms . |
| 8 | The reputation of the universities and polytechnics has hardly recovered to this day . |
| 9 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 10 | Although earlier crude categories survive in some influential textbooks on ageing , a subtler stance has gradually emerged from this controversy . |
| 11 | He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage . |
| 12 | Domestic tourism has also increased within this period . |
| 13 | Moreover , the activity rate just before retirement , 55–59 , has fractionally increased over this time period , so that nearly as many women as men are working as they approach the age of retirement . |
| 14 | The Policyholder 's Doctor is also asked if the claimant has previously suffered from this complaint . |
| 15 | The court must consider appointing as guardian anyone who has previously acted in this capacity for the child but is not obliged to re-appoint . |
| 16 | Unfortunately a consensus view has yet to emerge on this question . |
| 17 | Spennymoor super heavyweight Michael Hopper meets Preston 's Rod Allan , who , because of walkovers , has yet to box in this year 's championship . |
| 18 | Sir Duncan Nichol has recently moved in this direction ( letter to regional general managers , 22 Dec 1992 ) . |
| 19 | Well known through his contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 1985 , when he decorated the public lavatories , and from exhibitions with Tony Shafrazi , he has never shown in this country , but Edward Totah makes the correction when he presents ten large canvases and twenty-six smaller pictures ( 7 April–23 May ) . |
| 20 | I think she 'd rather gone off this Yank . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 22 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 23 | The writer who has had most to say about this sort of issue is Massey , particularly in her Spatial Divisions of Labour ( 1984 ) . |
| 24 | If the adventurers have destroyed the Blackshard , the Oracle ( if he still lives ) wo n't attack them when they return to room 66 ( all the mucus in stairwell 67 will have magically vanished by this time , allowing them to return ) . |
| 25 | Having twice swum in this tunnel I treat it with great respect and lots of fear . |
| 26 | My library is not alone in having seriously under-invested in this area in the past . |
| 27 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 28 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 29 | When I had sufficiently recovered from this onslaught , two points remained fixed in my mind . |
| 30 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |