Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
2 | Yes I do , there 's still injury doubts over Alan Jedsa , Paul keeps his place in the side , he did n't have a particular good game against Notts County ; one horrendous effort — error there , but he has played well generally and especially the same side that started that match at Notts County , so we can expect to see both full backs pushing up and really hopefully an open game like the one against Port Vale . |
3 | The current trend of pay and price increases is more than we had hoped , and it 's , it 's certainly more than er , than er , the planned increase in our income will cover , and I have to say that the rate of turnover of staff has reduced even further and so we will be spending more on staff for that reason than we had planned . |
4 | and see the er , decay has set in more and more and more . |
5 | The British Medical Association has spoken out clearly and critically against the White Paper . |
6 | A person whose poor health has caused progressively longer and more frequent absences from work will increasingly be at risk of losing his or her job . |
7 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
8 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
9 | ‘ Over the years ’ — Haverford did his best to sound modest — ‘ you might speak of me as one who has loved not wisely but too well . ’ |
10 | The British map of industrial employment has changed more fundamentally and dramatically than that of population . |
11 | Indeed the climate has changed so radically and rapidly that some teachers feel over-exposed to parental demand , exploitation and expectation . |
12 | Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government . |
13 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
14 | She 'd find out soon enough , he 'd said gravely once or twice , and that was it . |
15 | Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then . |
16 | The intervening years must have rolled away uneventfully and only much nearer our time do records appear of the development of village life . |
17 | She could easily have wept as messily and uselessly as Monica . |
18 | If I had been sensible I should have hung up there and then . |
19 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
20 | ‘ Odd thing , ’ Flavia said , ‘ I should n't have thought so either and now I 'm convinced she does . |
21 | Yes , I think it does something really nasty , you know , you could have got in again and just been sort of whiter than white just does n't work with the er , |
22 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
23 | He did n't answer and I should have walked away then and there . |
24 | Er I th I think if the honourable member pays attention he will appreciate that the boundaries are the nub of the issue in terms of er electoral systems and the common electoral system to which this country is a signatory in agreeing that that should be where we are er headed , is a principle which I believe that this er commission should have been asked to address , it should have been what was happening er at this time in the history of the European parliament , should have happened long ago but sadly it 's a principle which both Labour and Conservative governments in the past have preferred to ignore frankly for their own electoral benefit . |
25 | He would have read more reconditely but equally haphazardly in some more private precinct . |
26 | Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors . |
27 | It seemed impossible that in a few short days her life could have changed so dramatically and fundamentally , and she told Rohan so . |
28 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
29 | Alone with Henrietta , the woman he came closest to loving , Minton must have confronted more forcibly than ever before the nature of his condition . |
30 | No one with any experience of political meetings or grass-roots political movements and organizations can fail to have noticed how easily and naturally such groups and gatherings are dominated by white , bourgeois educated males . |