Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study will be based upon a sample of UK small firms in two widely differing industrial sectors , namely , biotechnology and engineering where subcontracting has grown more rapidly in recent years . |
| 2 | It follows from this My Lords that I believe that the Noble Lord , Lord with his well-known moderation and desire to compromise has gone rather too far in meeting Government intentions , but at all events I do ago go along with his proposal that if it is to be done by order , it would be right that the order should be laid before Parliament to make quite sure that justice has been done . |
| 3 | Lord Young has had to battle hard ever since to defend both his original deferment of publication and his decision to stand fast despite the leak . |
| 4 | These factors help to explain why the total number of clients covered at any one time by our London 24 hour on-call service more than doubled from 70 in April 1990 to 150 by March 1991 ; and why the provision of service has had to become so much more sophisticated . |
| 5 | Southeast Asia is not the only area where a legacy of hatred , bitterness and injustice has meant that Japan has had to tread very carefully in her relationships . |
| 6 | A Co-op spokesman says : ‘ We have found an alternative firm but it has meant that instead of mortgage repayments being met for a year , they will now only be paid for six months — and the price has had to rise as well . ’ |
| 7 | The picture on the costs and deprivations of work is fairly clear : manual workers suffer more than non-manual workers and the differences between the two groups appear to have changed little over the years . |
| 8 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ Grand Met appear to have behaved quite ruthlessly . |
| 10 | Trade unions , despite a loss of membership and their apparently weakened position , appear to have performed more effectively after the General Strike than before — which suggests that employers were more reluctant to become embroiled in major industrial conflict and that the unions were , themselves , asserting their rights in more effective and varied ways . |
| 11 | His statement was considered to have gone sufficiently far towards an apology to have enraged many nationalists within his own party , without having satisfied those who demanded a clear-cut official apology as a key part of an acceptance of responsibility for initiating the Pacific War . |
| 12 | The GCC development fund for Arab and Moslem countries , inaugurated in December 1991 [ see p. 38697 ] , was reported to have attracted so far contributions of only US$6,500,000 , from Saudia Arabia , Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) . |
| 13 | For with ‘ grossing up ’ he is deemed to have given away both the gift and the tax on it so that his total giving reaches quickly to astronomic heights . |
| 14 | However , the interest and acuity of these studies can not obscure the fact that the labour internationalism they set out to document and analyze has occurred only fleetingly . |
| 15 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 16 | In Spain , in the later 1780s , the foreign minister , Count Floridablanca , began attaching youths in their late teens to missions abroad to be given there some grounding in diplomatic skills : this again does not appear to have gone very far . |
| 17 | Although it is not easy to establish exactly what proportion of total local spending goes to specific areas of the cities , where efforts were made , the inner-urban areas do not appear to have done particularly well . |
| 18 | What we hope to have shown so far , if only in a general way , is the vital link between theory and method which is so essential to a fuller understanding of methods of data collection . |
| 19 | I refused to face the prospect of his return yet , since I seemed to have faced quite enough for one afternoon . |
| 20 | This new chap , Dunbar , seemed to have become very much a part of Madeleine 's life ; Lady Debrace approved of him and obviously Aubrey liked him . |
| 21 | It all seemed to have gone remarkably smoothly . |
| 22 | Her old character seemed to have gone far away and here she did n't need it back . |
| 23 | Laura 's eyes seemed to have moved closer together . |
| 24 | The EC seemed to have moved further away from the aims of the first stage of the Werner recommendations now that most exchange rates in the Community were floating against each other . |
| 25 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 26 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 27 | With the threat of bombing it seemed sensible for Mrs Daly to go to stay with a widowed friend in Rainford , and she seemed to have settled there very happily . |
| 28 | Staff commission has issued a number of consulta or has issued a consultation paper , and I detail that in paragraph eight , and in our response to that , basically , we have said the nineteen seventy-four arrangements for the staff commission seemed to have worked very well , and we hope the staff commission will , the new staff commission will stick very closely to that , and only vary them when they 've got a perfectly good reason for doing so . |
| 29 | Well I mean I I think the grafts that they 've done , the major grafts anyway , are finished and er they seemed to have taken really well , so I mean it 's just a matter of time , really , for them to settle . |
| 30 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |