Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 He 'd much rather have advised a disciple — the earnest girl Fruitbat , perhaps , or her relentlessly smiling lover , Chogyam-Jones , who dressed in what looked like a Chinese carpet ; their flattery was becoming necessary .
2 In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question .
3 The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility .
4 Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results .
5 Police inquiries so far have drawn a blank .
6 Decisions so far have steered a judicious and generally respected path between the opposite sides — in one case , BOC wanted a £35 million limit to possible damage to its equipment by Yorkshire Electricity .
7 Events so far have included a 1960s night , five-a-side football , sponsored basketball and hillwalks through Glensax and the Lairig Ghru in the Cairngorms .
8 The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives .
9 Studies made on the river Lugg in Herefordshire show that the rubbly remains of fords or bridges which collapsed long ago have created a gravelly river bed which encourages crowfoot .
10 The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign .
11 There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough .
12 Her colour 's dreadful ; Anya 's little sleeping draught may have been harmless , but the day and night just past have taken a toll .
13 They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question .
14 The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners .
15 As a penance , she became a hangman , although I would have thought she would more likely have become a candidate for hanging .
16 He had already consumed more than one bottle of wine on his own , Alyssia managing to sip so slowly through her one glass that she was still stone-cold sober , and fully aware that at this rate her lift home would be out of the question and that she would more likely have to get a taxi .
17 Establishing the effectiveness and outcomes of health care in order to allocate resources more rationally has become a key policy issue in many countries .
18 He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again .
19 Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness .
20 It 's a million miles in style from our usual sweeping lawns and landscaped vistas , but in the latest in our series Summer Gardens , we visit the little piece of England where a little really HAS to go a long way .
21 From my point of view , one of the most powerful arguments that needs to be addressed is the argument about individual freedom and this is always important to me about , if you 're going to take an action that limits somebody 's freedom , you damn well have to have a good reason for it .
22 Having entered Royal Navy slang in this way the word could quite reasonably have been transferred from the specimen to the specimen collector , and , its origin forgotten , its vowels might equally reasonably have undergone a sea change making boffin out of buffon .
23 OXTON are in championship form with their recent run of success almost enough to have landed a Weightman Rutherfords Liverpool Competition title .
24 After successfully completing this course , you would then normally have to undertake a two year training contract .
25 Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions .
26 If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman .
27 But she told the boy his offences were so serious that had he been 15 , not 14 , he 'd almost certainly have received a custodial sentence .
28 Secondly , it enables us to take account of the knowledge that , as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said , had Saddam Hussein not allowed his greed to overcome his stealth by invading Kuwait last year , he would almost certainly have developed a nuclear weapon by the end of 1993 .
29 In a few days or weeks Francis would almost certainly have made a will and it was unlikely that Anna would have been the principal , let alone the sole beneficiary .
30 " Shoes would almost certainly have had a maker 's name on them , and such names on shoes are generally stamped in the leather and not easy to take out .
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