Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 2 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 3 | Unemployment , in contrast , has risen sharply during the latter part of the period , in terms of both numbers and rate ( see Figure 2.1(b) and ( c ) ) . |
| 4 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 5 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 6 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 7 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 8 | And , after all , would you have done so in the same situation ? |
| 9 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 10 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 11 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 12 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 13 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 14 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 15 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 16 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 17 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 18 | The agreement by the County Council to transfer St. Peter 's to the minister was not without irony — the Ministry of Health had grown out of the same succession of poor laws which had produced both the institution and , indeed , local government itself . |
| 19 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 20 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 21 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 22 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 23 | At 10.50 a.m. , Aldrich looked across at the two men who had entered quietly by the same door . |
| 24 | Charles kept remembering what Micky Banks had gone through at the same stage , and often , like his predecessor , was ready to throw in the towel and say it was impossible . |
| 25 | In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful . |
| 26 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 27 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |
| 28 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 29 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 30 | However , in other parts of the world , birds have responded differently to the same or similar tests . |