Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Saddam can claim that he alone has resisted the greatest military power in the world plus allies for longer than any Arab states ever resisted Israel , or anybody . |
| 2 | It obviously has had the opposite effect … |
| 3 | The prosecutor merely has to prove the technical offence of walking on grass . |
| 4 | Labour now not only has to embrace the new agenda of electoral reform , political decentralisation and power-sharing , and a new Britain in Europe . |
| 5 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 6 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 7 | To get back to Markowitz 's original proxy for the risk of a portfolio ( or for that matter an individual security ) , the standard deviation of the returns , one only has to find the square root of the total portfolio variance . |
| 8 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 9 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 10 | It may be that bizarre , self-destructive and anti-social behaviour which would once only have afflicted the true psychotic will increasingly come to typify what would otherwise have been purely neurotic disorders had they been internalized as hitherto . |
| 11 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 12 | Given the already appalling and growing rate of homelessness and lack of hostel facilities in London , when more people than ever will not only have to endure the freezing nights of the coming winter on the streets , but perhaps permanent homelessness , it was terrible to see the situation being exploited for a joke by your advertisement : ‘ Just the thing now the evenings are drawing in . |
| 13 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 14 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 15 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 16 | A final price ( striking price ) is chosen at which all the shares will be sold ( even those tendering higher prices for the shares will only have to pay the striking price ) . |
| 17 | The user does not only have to overcome the physical aspect of dependency , manifest in withdrawal symptoms , but also psychological dependence . |
| 18 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |
| 19 | Given these factors , any attempt to brand the Celtic Church heretical would only have entailed the complete loss of Ireland . |
| 20 | Nathan Cohen would have been ‘ pledged ’ to another idea ; his ‘ blood ’ would have been consecrated ; he would have been ‘ grave ’ — though perhaps not ‘ strict ’ ; he would better have protected the fragile ceremony ; owning the importance of his proper role in it . |
| 21 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 22 | Each had their separate sources of funding and , as a result , would not necessarily have to chase the largest audience nor produce lowest common denominator programmes so as to please as many as possible . |
| 23 | But you do n't necessarily have to say the whole number . |
| 24 | Well you do n't necessarily have to bring the collective unconscious , do you ? |
| 25 | He was fortunate enough to have secured the nineteen forty volume of short stories from his local library . |
| 26 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 27 | Few of us are lucky enough to have escaped the shattering sensation of pure terror generated by nightmares : the experience can haunt our every action for days afterwards . |
| 28 | While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name . |
| 29 | While it was generally considered to be difficult to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered . |
| 30 | Throughout the morning on which Morse was addressing his audience in Bath , and stripping away the deceptions and the half-truths which hitherto had veiled the naked truth of the case , there was much activity at the Trout Inn , a fine riverside hostelry set between the weir and the Godstow Lock in the village of Wolvercote , only a couple of miles out on the western side of North Oxford . |