Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One only has to consider the markets for restaurant meals , motor cars and clothes to realize that there are more than two successful cost-quality mixes available in a number of industries . |
| 2 | ‘ We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently . |
| 3 | What we do know is that I M R O asked for this information in June nineteen eighty-eight and not long afterwards I M R O granted recognition to B I M and other Maxwell Companies , all the more surprising perhaps having raised the questions whether the question must come about , did they continue with their investigation , or did they let the matter drop and perhaps you might to comment in that context . |
| 4 | Had they gone , they would only have heard the pupils : in the City Temple they heard the master . ’ |
| 5 | He could only have satisfied the expectations Labour has raised in Scotland and Wales by putting Labour 's ability to win future British elections at risk . |
| 6 | Unfortunately for authors , readers do not necessarily have to accept the terms they attempt to dictate , however subtly that attempt is made . |
| 7 | It had been lucky enough to have survived the ravages of the Great Fire of 1666 , when its tower acted as a vantage-point from which Samuel Pepys could stare in horror at the extent of the blaze . |
| 8 | It was past nine o'clock when he came , late enough to have emptied the streets . |
| 9 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 10 | The Variety Club 's Chief Barker , Marsha Ratcliff , said : ‘ You only had to see the expressions on the competitors ’ faces to see how much they were enjoying themselves . ’ |
| 11 | We only had to watch the ladies final at Telford at the end of last year to see how bad our tennis has become . |
| 12 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 13 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 14 | You only have to study the improvisations of musicians like Charlie Parker , Clifford Brown and John Coltrane to discover an abundance of chromatic tension and resolution points . |
| 15 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 16 | Otherwise poor Francis , and he already has to feed the chickens and the cat , milk the goat , herd the sheep . |
| 17 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 18 | The course is both demanding and rewarding ; a graduate in French will have shown competence in a variety of academic and intellectual skills , will have adapted successfully to a challenging foreign environment , and will thus have demonstrated the qualities of intellect and personality most prized by employers . |
| 19 | The Northern Ireland Office would normally have ignored the moves by Jill Knight and Ian Paisely knowing that matters affecting a public corporation , such as the Housing Executive , could not be raised in Parliament and that , in lethargic Ulster , the matter would soon be forgotten . |
| 20 | It is capable of measuring the height and direction of wind and waves — even through cloud and at night — meaning that oceanographers may no longer have to travel the seas in weather ships . |
| 21 | My first task tonight having finished the devotions , is to welcome Stella , as our minutes secretary . |
| 22 | Ten years ago , such a debate would largely have concerned the policies of publishers . |
| 23 | Mineral extraction and quarrying were the only other enterprises producing for more than immediate local demand , though practical considerations must generally have limited the distances stone could be transported . |
| 24 | The vacuum cleaner was welcomed at first because it meant no longer having to do the stairs with a stiff brush . |
| 25 | She would just have to return the papers later in the week . |
| 26 | Go off and we 'd just have to bear the costs . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it was held that any false indication given by the retailer could not be said to be due to the act or default of Cadbury since the retailer could quite easily have compared the weights and prices of his existing stock and the new bars to see if the label ‘ Extra value ’ was justified . |
| 28 | Flush from her victory over Austria , Prussia could easily have imposed the terms for the North German Federation on her partners , and indeed proposals were drawn up in 1866 for a union ‘ based on Prussian characteristics ’ . |
| 29 | Using traditional methods ( ie. pencil and paper ) , I suppose I could easily have got the scissors out and done the same job . |
| 30 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |