Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change did not mean that the new recruits to Parliament were any less committed to socialism : indeed , many of them probably understood its teachings even better than had the bulk of MPs of the pre-war era . |
| 2 | Apart from Ireland it would seem that the smaller European countries have contained the situation better than have the larger ones , but this is an artefact since other small countries such as Belgium , Netherlands and Denmark follow the same trend as the larger countries . |
| 3 | If a large number of As have been observed under a wide variety of conditions , and if all those observed As without exception possessed the property B , then all As have the property B. |
| 4 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 5 | Take balls of the almond paste and roll into thick fingers and place end to end , so as to have a thick line of paste . |
| 6 | They came on foot , in horse-drawn carts , by bicycle and by bus , arriving early in the morning so as to have a full day 's prayer . |
| 7 | In longer pieces composers often use varied keys , so as to have a more chromatic language at their disposal and to avoid the stagnation of using only a limited selection of notes . |
| 8 | Consider firstly the ordinary investor who wants shares in a trust so as to have a claim on a much wider portfolio of shares than he could afford by investing directly . |
| 9 | I headed over to the Kylie to collect Peter , so as to have an additional adult on board , and finally back to Nada to pick up Terrie and the children . |
| 10 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
| 11 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 12 | For example , if you feel like cheese on toast for lunch , rather than having a couple of slices of toast piled with cheese , have two slices of toast , one with just a moderate layer of cheese on top , and one with baked beans . |
| 13 | You are most interested in how you come across to other people , whether they think you are witty or pretty , rather than having a genuine interest in them and their views . |
| 14 | The challenge in our modern world is to use medical techniques that will preserve the life of the baby and the health of the mother , yet still allow women to respond to the natural forces of childbirth , so that they may really feel they have given birth , rather than having a baby taken out of them . |
| 15 | The Universe would therefore have an infinite extent in all four dimensions of spacetime ; it would always have existed , rather than having a moment of birth . |
| 16 | People adhere to astrology with a dogmatic frame of mind rather than having a sceptical , critical approach . |
| 17 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 18 | Rather than having a separate database-style program , a la WordStar , WordPerfect stores addresses in the form of a simple text list . |
| 19 | Careers adviser Kate Hargreaves opted for the greater job satisfaction of running a small organisation rather than having a more senior position in a large company . |
| 20 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 21 | In my experience of doing exams , and I 'll talk to you about revision techniques in a minute , erm generally you 're better off to have a broad coverage of a syllabus rather than having a shallow one , right ? |
| 22 | Voters will get a better deal with a hung parliament and are more likely to get the decisions they want , rather than having a single party riding roughshod over their wishes , as in the community charge , claims Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher . |
| 23 | you only got two carpets to sort out and a bit of lino rather than having a different one with this one and a different one for that one and then a different one for |
| 24 | Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . |
| 25 | Rather than having the whole of the public and the press against us , we gained support . |
| 26 | Rather than having the unskilled parts of the operation — the lifting and placing — performed by the robot , and the skilled part — the welding — performed by the welder , the opposite solution was adopted . |
| 27 | The attention paid to posture is most noticeable at the foot end , for rather than having the feet at right-angles to the ankles they are totally relaxed and display a more natural attitude of repose . |
| 28 | However , rather than having the guests whispering conspiratorially amongst themselves the unmentionable secret that this is a second marriage , some speakers prefer a more direct and honest approach . |
| 29 | Rather than having the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 30 | I figured that rather than have a tape and a black and white photo , I would have a CD that would be in colour . |