Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools . |
| 2 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 3 | Recently , this full-length terracotta Madonna 127 cm high , was sent for conservation and the discovery that it was by the great sculptor Jacopo della Quercia was made , which has caused all the more excitement because it was completely unexpected . |
| 4 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 5 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 6 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 7 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 8 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 9 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 10 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 11 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 12 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 13 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 14 | It could be argued that interviews with competent librarians and subject specialists in these fields , or even examination of the holdings lists of specialist libraries in these subjects , would have produced exactly the same journal lists as have been arrived at by co-citation analysis , at a much lower cost . |
| 15 | I can put a point rather more crudely than the Lord put it , but I realise that the present Government find it inconceivable , one day they will be in opposition , but I do wonder if they would have shown quite the same enthusiasm for this solution if it had been forthcoming from a Labour Government . |
| 16 | I could have found exactly the same clothes and expressions anywhere in the United Kingdom that night of course . |
| 17 | ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’ |
| 18 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 19 | I could have quoted basically the same words from almost any Jehovah 's Witness tract , but I choose this book because a reputable publisher ( Pan Books Ltd ) saw fit to publish it , despite a very large number of errors which would quickly have been spotted if an unemployed biology graduate , or indeed undergraduate , had been asked to glance through the manuscript . |
| 20 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 21 | The employment opportunities for working-class girls — whether in factory work or in domestic service — would not appear to have excited either the same sympathy or alarm . |
| 22 | As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 . |
| 23 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 24 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 25 | A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point . |
| 26 | Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds . |
| 27 | When you look at certain letters , you can see that they 've got exactly the same features involved in them . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had precisely the same argument in Kampur and in Bombay , in Delhi and in Madras . |
| 29 | They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield . |
| 30 | As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day . |