Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Open University 's Patterns for Living : Working Together has generated much interest in this area ( Open University 1989 ) . |
| 2 | The role of sponsorship and television together has brought vast amounts of new money into sport , providing high earnings for tournament winners or top team-players . |
| 3 | The Democrat Congressman Long has given full rein to his total unworthiness as a man and as a government functionary in his dealings with a country which is a friend to his government and to his nation . |
| 4 | A hard-to-define British artist , Long has attracted much attention in America with his use of stones and landscape . |
| 5 | This crevasse alone has claimed 18 lives . |
| 6 | The last decade or so has seen significant changes in patterns of employment . |
| 7 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 8 | Again it seems that the radical critique has confused form and content , and so has directed valuable criticisms about the level of state support towards the form of state support itself . |
| 9 | ‘ The publicity which rightly has surrounded this situation may have one good effect ; it draws our attention to the awful consequences of unemployment and business failures in our society ; and it reminds us of our genuine responsibilities towards the individuals and families damaged by this ; we must have care for our brothers and sisters in need . |
| 10 | Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times . |
| 11 | Evelyn admitted to only having read one chapter . |
| 12 | The only thing I 'd say , I , I would have expected perhaps I missed out on , on yesterday 's course , but I would perhaps have expected more emphasis to have been given to something that you mentioned , right at the end , was ‘ Find out how long the interview 's going to be ’ . |
| 13 | There are , of course , major problems in evaluating programmes , as we have already discussed , but one could perhaps have expected more concern about the amount of information transmitted by each method and about how each works in the classroom . |
| 14 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 15 | Not when you see her come in the hall on a Monday morning at eight o'clock having done three hours . |
| 16 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 17 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 18 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 19 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 20 | Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest . |
| 21 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
| 22 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 23 | If I liked it , I could re-apply for the one-year programme , and if I did n't , I would only have wasted five months . |
| 24 | It would only have needed one postponement at the school 's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol 's big opportunity ! |
| 25 | Jorg Sambetn , a Givaudan engineer who investigated the accident after it happened , says it should only have taken 15 minutes , and can not understand why the workers omitted it . |
| 26 | Eighteen months ago , says business logistics director Alex Shepherd , the company would only have considered big names like IBM and Hewlett Packard . |
| 27 | It was conceivable that , as the area chairmen feared , higher prices in domestic tariffs would not only have discouraged undesirable loads such as peak space heating , but also the ones such as water heating and cooking which helped them in their overall commercial strategy and were largely off-peak . |
| 28 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 29 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 30 | All new school buildings in northern China , where the weather is cold and bright , will henceforth have built-in solar energy installations . |