Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) . |
| 2 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 3 | Lee also requested that Russia undertake legal guarantees to repay the US$1,800 million which South Korea had provided , or had committed itself to provide , to Russia and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) in 1991 . |
| 4 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 5 | We can propose as an initial distinction the following : on the one hand the variable relations between ‘ cultural producers ’ ( a deliberately neutral if abstract term ) and recognizable social institutions ; on the other hand , the variable relations in which ‘ cultural producers ’ have been organized or have organized themselves , their formations . |
| 6 | It may be far more powerful to live free from the past , weighed down as little as possible by how women have been perceived , or have perceived themselves , in that past . |
| 7 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 8 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 9 | ‘ As a man thinks — so he is ’ — a statement that has proved itself down the years . |
| 10 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 11 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 12 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 13 | In Cuzco International Airport , the ‘ queue ’ for the flight to Puerto Maldonaldo , gateway to the jungle , swelled before me : a snake that had gorged itself over and over . |
| 14 | And for composers desperately intent on forging a language that had purged itself of any historical residues , a musical form that by its very nature was reliant upon an external stimulus , that needed the prop of a text and a scenario , was intrinsically suspicious . |
| 15 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 16 | Wagnerian music in general had now taken its hold and was irresistibly leading Nietzsche to admit a response diametrically opposed to the objectivity that had commended itself to him before . |
| 17 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 18 | Local authorities in the UK that have declared themselves ‘ nuclear-free ’ have been highly critical of British planning , calling for an extension of emergency zones to at least 24 km . |
| 19 | The same thing may explain the cricket establishment 's ambivalent attitude towards the one-day matches that have shoved themselves on to the scene . |
| 20 | Over here it does n't even look as if you need access to the Royal Mint or the Bank of England to forge bank-notes , judging by the warning messages on the colour photocopiers that have stationed themselves inside the printing bureaux . |
| 21 | Peel quotes evidence that the raging streamfloods and sheetfloods mentioned above are the exceptions that have impressed themselves strongly on the mind of chance , lucky observers . |
| 22 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 23 | I 'm delighted to hear that sir and er I was also delighted to hear Mr say that this start date is not likely to be delayed because of this , this prior agreement that is necessary and I was hopeful that er Brandon bypass could retain the position that 's retained itself on our agenda papers this morning I E |
| 24 | To understand this point one has to ask how the family has been internally regulated , given that law has claimed no hortatory function over family behaviour and has limited itself to dispute-resolution when things go wrong . |
| 25 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 26 | Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre . |
| 27 | Player-manager Francis has aggravated a groin problem and has ruled himself out . |
| 28 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 29 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 30 | Eltharion accepted and has busied himself strengthening the land of Yvresse ever since . |