Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions . |
| 2 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 3 | The foreground software used ; Smart , Cardbox and Multiplan have all been found to work fine with memory resident software over many months of use . |
| 4 | The Townsend Thoresen Disaster Fund , the Townsend Thoresen Crew Fund and the P & O Additional Fund have all been established to provide extra money for those who have lost relatives as a result of the Zeebrugge disaster . |
| 5 | The secretary of state has given the Joint Consultants Committee ( JCC ) an assurance that the Department of Health will deal firmly with specific cases of abuse that are notified to the department , and , indeed , certain trusts have already been made to reverse inappropriate appointments . |
| 6 | Well over 20,000 people have already been encouraged to invest some £53 million in their own training with the benefit of those loans . |
| 7 | The Joneses have just been asked to find 15 years ' back rent along with the residents of the other 17 flats at Shire Court in Swindon . |
| 8 | Reference notes have largely been chosen to include some of the classic works that expounded particular theoretical viewpoints together with textbooks that most clearly interpret theories and issues for British audiences . |
| 9 | I think we have probably been trying to reach each other several times in the last week or two unsuccessfully . |
| 10 | In normal neonates , fixation shifts and OKN have both been taken to reflect subcortical control ; our results are consistent with subcortical control for fixation but not for OKN . |
| 11 | In my experience computer systems can be divided into three categories : ( i ) Operational systems , the area where computers have traditionally been used to process large volumes of information on a regular basis . |
| 12 | The hare flees across a field in this way , and a number of different birds and fish have also been seen to use this technique . |
| 13 | Non-manufacturing costs have also been analysed to identify further savings for the current year . |
| 14 | Attempts have also been made to clarify political control by means of ‘ contractual ’ arrangements between government and state enterprise . |
| 15 | Attempts have also been made to provide sheltered housing — that is , groups of small dwellings with some communal facilities and a warden in attendance . |
| 16 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 17 | On the other side of the argument , groups have also been found to make disastrous decisions . |
| 18 | Inexperienced investors have often been known to put several thousand pounds into a little known company , on the strength of a five minute telephone conversation . |
| 19 | I detest Eduardo Vallejo , mayor of Guernica , when he says that Picasso 's words ‘ have often been interpreted to serve special interests ’ , and glosses over the special interests served by the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 20 | Two existing modules covering a very broad time-span have now been revised to cover seven shorter historical periods , allowing in-depth investigations by students . |
| 21 | Initially applied in the context of lakes and their drainage basins which can be used as units of sediment-based ecological study ( Oldfield , 1977 ) , the techniques have now been shown to have widespread application to sediment correlation in lake sediments , to differentiation of weathering and pedogenesis , to the identification of sediment sources , and there may subsequently be application of mineral magnetic measurements to long sediment sequences from major lake basins in non-glaciated regions , to near-shore marine sediments in morphogenetically dynamic areas , and also to cave sediments , alluvial fills , river terrace sequences and to loess successions . |
| 22 | Two or three high-speed automatic membrane-osmometers have now been designed to reduce these drawbacks and are commercially available . |
| 23 | The Parish Council would welcome your assurance that this was a one-off incident and that steps have now been taken to prevent any recurrence . |
| 24 | Some have even been tempted to transfer these old contracts into newer personal pensions , despite all the costs associated with discontinuing the contract and starting a new one , and the possible downsides such as a lower amount of tax-free cash under the new legislation . |
| 25 | I have sometimes been tempted to try this bidding technique with particularly unattractive paintings . |
| 26 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 27 | Indeed , volatile fatty acids have recently been shown to activate apical membrane Na + /H + exchange in a human colon cancer cell line . |
| 28 | Twenty consecutive patients with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis have therefore been studied to address these questions . |
| 29 | The input resistor values in the mixer circuit ( R13–R18 ) have therefore been chosen to simulate this effect by giving progressively larger attenuation from tapping one through to tapping six on IC3 . |
| 30 | They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . |