Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have withered inside long ago had there not been this to return to . |
| 2 | You 've been here long enough now to have formed your own impressions of what goes on . |
| 3 | They had continued to write , frequently at first , then more and more seldom , and only once more had he heard from him , by chance , after long years : married , a father , in a high judicial position . |
| 4 | Hazel had eaten various roots in his life , but only once before had he tasted carrot , when a cart-horse had spilt a nose-bag near the home warren . |
| 5 | Only once before has this riveting axis started a game and the first-half goal rush was an event waiting to happen . |
| 6 | He pushed past a group of waiting relatives … why people insisted on waving when the train was still so far away had always been a mystery to him … and glanced round sharply at a teenage girl who elbowed him accidentally , but painfully , in the back . |
| 7 | Only comparatively recently have roses been grown again in their own right as flowering shrubs ( as opposed to being massed in beds for maximum display ) and therefore the Dictionary 's comments are pertinent today . |
| 8 | In most cases , at least in the early stages , the patient needs help when transferring onto a commode or toilet , so there also has to be space for the carer . |
| 9 | Oh yes very much so very much so there always has been , yeah they used to call them the faithful four thousand at one time . |
| 10 | This is the really thorny question , but only relatively recently has it begun to receive the attention it merits . |
| 11 | Lord Deverill , having watched in silence , seeing his daughter was safe , popped his big horse over the gate and galloped on to the covert where hounds had checked , and so too finally had Buttons . |
| 12 | Only too evidently had God given his judgement in favour of the English claim for justice . |
| 13 | Only too often have I witnessed a bad bass destroying , single handedly , a promising performance of the Messiah . |
| 14 | The ruling couple preferred , however , to receive RFE 's news at second hand from a minion , who all too often had the thankless task of retailing the unflattering commentary or the contents of a critical letter smuggled out to the Munich-based radio station by one of their subjects . |
| 15 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 16 | This tree is one of the most commonly planted shade trees in India and elsewhere , yet only very lately has its phenology been fully investigated . |
| 17 | Only very rarely has the patient carried out the act with suicidal intent in mind . |
| 18 | Only very rarely has it been reported in the lung . |
| 19 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 20 | Only very recently has there been a development of more comprehensive concern for the disabled . |
| 21 | Indeed , policy developments in each of these three areas have largely taken place in complete isolation from the others ; only very recently has the importance of social security to the effectiveness of ‘ community care ’ been recognised in any official document ( House of Commons Social Services Committee , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 23 | Shortly after trying this out InteCalc crashed fatally anyway so perhaps having Version I.0.0.0 is tempting fate … |
| 24 | So he 'd just damn well have to do what Edouard said , and go back to Algeria with his tail between his legs . |
| 25 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 26 | Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men . |
| 27 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 28 | In the past , CPE might just as easily have stood for ‘ Continue Paying Eternally ’ . |
| 29 | In the photograph on the facing page I have designed an S-shape for Sheen , but it could just as easily have been a J for Joanna , or any of the other letters of the alphabet . |
| 30 | It 's dreadful for them , and it might just as easily have been us . |