Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] have " in BNC.
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1 | Gamma ray satellites so far have shown the distribution of interstellar gas ( where it is struck by cosmic rays ) , pulsars , and two dozen powerful but as-yet-unidentified sources . |
2 | ‘ The investigations so far have shown no evidence of such an elaborate organization , ’ Kopyion seemed to answer before he 'd finished . |
3 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
4 | There is still some way to go before we have an agreement on economic and monetary union , but the discussions so far have shown that it is possible to thrash out a sensible position in negotiations . |
5 | Although this active altruism was said to wane in the final year at school when each pupil had a wide range of other preoccupations , the strength , the compactness and the self-reliance of student groups only occasionally had to be challenged by teachers . |
6 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
7 | Words almost always have constant meaning , for without this property they would have little use . |
8 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
9 | Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify . |
10 | The steps no longer have a logical reference to the purpose of the dance . |
11 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
12 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
13 | The mind can generate its own creative images and it will show us colours and visions that will bewilder our eyes and take us to regions beyond the schemata , where words no longer have meaning . |
14 | Today , the specialist pop and rock rags no longer have the subject to themselves and only the most conservative publications on the news-stands fail to acknowledge that some subsection of the now sprawling rock field is of interest to their readers . |
15 | The original contracting parties no longer have privity with each other . |
16 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
17 | Responses so far have been most encouraging . |
18 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
19 | Most of the Brigade casualties so far have been caused mainly by mortar and shellfire and , of course , the constant sniping . |
20 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
21 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
22 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |
23 | The West Indies will hope their pace bowlers can dismiss the Australians cheaply today to have any chance of a positive result . |
24 | Despite all the changes in theory which have happened in the interim , these plates still apparently have value , and pass time 's test . |
25 | ‘ There is no doubt that the pit is viable , but … the miners there only have a second-hand machine they got from British Coal and one coalface … |
26 | Countries no longer have to decide the rate of exchange at which currencies should be pegged , or the responsibility for ensuring that par values are maintained at agreed values . |
27 | Today the attraction of the land for breeding is not so great , for the amphibians no longer have it to themselves . |
28 | In other words , of broadcasters no longer have to depend on ‘ official ’ sources , how can we control what the public sees and hears ? |
29 | A series of important enactments more recently has confirmed and strengthened the position of auditors . |
30 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |