Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] in [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 At one stage ( 12–7kyr ago ) Lake Suguta covered an area of 2,000km 2 and reached depths of more than 300m , but it has since desiccated in response to an increasingly arid climate .
2 There are some observers — myself included — who feel that the July meeting at Down Royal has now gained in importance to such an extent that it deserves to be kept on its own and I understand that the Killarney executive are not totally against a move to an earlier date .
3 In the USA it has recently slipped in rank to eighth position .
4 Particularly was this so because the British accountancy profession played a more constructive role in the preparatory stages of the two Directives than our professional bodies had hitherto taken in relation to EC proposals .
5 And , well we 're doing what we 've always done in relation to erm tenants and erm rent arrears , we basically pursue a sympathetic policy erm for tenants who are facing real financial hardship in paying their rents .
6 Experts said lava , which since December has been flowing out of the eastern Sicily volcano , had now increased in speed to a rate of 1.5 miles a day .
7 During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement .
8 The collapse of tin prices in the 1980s destroyed the tin-mining industry , many of whose former employees have since turned in desperation to growing coca .
9 I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves .
10 I have already cited in relation to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ Cornford 's idea of the degeneration of ritual into debased formats .
11 The notes will also give a practical interpretation of the regulations and codify best practice , as well as be more prescriptive to clarify what have already proved in practice to be grey areas .
12 Arousal , reward and punishment , as I have already suggested in relation to the interpretation of Ungar 's experiments , are associated with changes in the amounts of the opioids and other peptides in the brain and bloodstream ; so injecting the peptides , or drugs which interact with them , will alter behaviour , including the expression of memory .
13 In the absence of further information to the contrary , we are justified in assuming that money wages and the prices of non-labour inputs have also risen in proportion to the rise in price of final output .
14 Therefore , as I have frequently said in letters to Opposition Members and to my hon. Friends , we regard the support of students as the proper duty of the education system , rather than of the social security system , although there are exceptions that we support under the social security system .
15 It is the stuff in the video shop , to which people have consciously turned in preference to what is broadcast .
16 The conflicting motives for intervention have sometimes led in practice to the government oscillating ‘ wildly between stubborn resistance and instantaneous surrender ’ ( 560 ) .
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