Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already argued that a period of sustained expansion can occur only if potential profitability can be maintained , that is , if an adequate balance between productivity and real wages can be sustained . |
| 2 | We have already noted that a log transformation often helps when the data is the result of some process of growth . |
| 3 | We have already seen that a sulphonamide acts as a false building block ; it fits into the construction but is the wrong shape for farther blocks to be added . |
| 4 | We have already seen that a murder is necessary in a detective story , if only to tell the reader that this is something worth attention . |
| 5 | We have just seen that a hirer under a hire purchase agreement is not someone who has ‘ bought or agreed to buy ’ for the purpose of section 25 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 6 | As we are all aware , they have cut the grant available to safety representatives training , sorry , for safety representatives ' training and will completely eliminate that grant by nineteen ninety five and to top it all they have just announced that a review of all health and safety legislation will be completed by April next year the objective of this review is to reduce the so-called burdens health and safety legislation puts on employers . |
| 7 | As Kipling complained , they hardly noticed it when it was there ; and since its conversion into a Commonwealth of Nations in 1947 , with Indian independence , they have hardly noticed that a Commonwealth is not the same thing . |
| 8 | The subjectivists have always insisted that a man who believes that a woman is consenting can not be guilty of rape . |
| 9 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , said on Friday that it was now time to change ‘ the tone and mood of Scottish politics ’ and added : ‘ I have always accepted that a referendum could be an appropriate mechanism for sounding out opinion , particularly on constitutional issues . ’ |
| 10 | Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking . |
| 11 | I have always thought that a promise to perform an existing duty , or the performance of it , should be regarded as good consideration , because it is a benefit to the person to whom it is given . |
| 12 | Blaese and his colleagues have also shown that a mouse glioma can be completely ablated by treatment with acyclovir following a stereotactic implant of fibroblasts infected with a retrovirus copying the herpes virus gene for thymidine kinase . |
| 13 | There is a lot of racism in the school , and I have often believed that a lot of multicultural talk should start with the staff before it starts with the pupils . |
| 14 | I 'm a physics graduate but have now decided that a career in computer programming is more practical , given my condition . |
| 15 | In Britain the courts have recently decided that a leather firm should pay the Cambridge Water Company almost £1m in damages for contaminating one of its boreholes with chlorinated solvents , even though the solvents were disposed of 17 years ago in a way that was legal at the time . |