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 .
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