Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period . |
| 2 | The fishing for sand-eels alone has risen until last year ( 1989 ) a million tonnes were taken from the North Sea by EEC member countries . |
| 3 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 4 | Only having moved into this new warehouse apartment just over two months ago , Laura still was n't quite sure how most of the ultra-modern appliances actually worked . |
| 5 | Could so much have changed in six months ? |
| 6 | Edward and I would only have gotten in each other 's hair . ’ |
| 7 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 8 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 9 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 10 | These , it appeared , were where the allegations had begun , and these , Mr M told the South Ronaldsay community , could only have come from some of the eight children who had been taken into care the previous November . |
| 11 | So having put on these er temporary protective gloves . |
| 12 | I doubt whether the legend of Dom Pérignon would necessarily have survived to this day but for the fact that the Abbey of Hautvillers , where he devoted his life to the perfection of wine , happened to be in Champagne . |
| 13 | Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise . |
| 14 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 15 | Since then I have also been fortunate enough to have played in ten Test Matches for England . ’ |
| 16 | So , we ca n't use the fact that Earth has life to conclude that life must be probable enough to have arisen on another planet . |
| 17 | For one thing , she was n't cold-blooded enough to have capitalised on those moments . |
| 18 | She and Phil Morris together had hit upon this virtue out of necessity since the machines could still print only one colour and new machinery for multi-coloured printing was much too expensive . |
| 19 | Much had changed since 1900 in the world of secondary education . |
| 20 | The King , who had been compelled to abdicate in 1975 at the age of 69 , apparently had died in 1984 of malaria contracted in a detention centre [ for former denial of King 's death see p. 36293 ] . |
| 21 | Second , and more important , they were mass-produced out of durable materials and so have survived in large numbers . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , it is often the most deprived areas or people who are least able to help themselves , and in many rural areas the decline in rural transport and rural services outlined above has led to real rural deprivation . |
| 23 | This may already have happened in those species that will not tolerate a strange egg in the nest . |
| 24 | The containers , palettes or packings must originate , or be , in free circulation within the EC and must not already have benefited from any VAT exemption . |
| 25 | I might just have thought of some new names to call you . ’ |
| 26 | Some things were made from almost pure platinum , others showed small proportions of gold that could easily have arisen from imperfect sorting . |
| 27 | Police say the fires could easily have spread to nearby houses . |
| 28 | A contemporary Shirvan rug , for example ( pl. 24 ) , may have been made in the Shirvan area — now part of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan — but it could just as easily have come from any of the Soviet weaving centres producing Caucasian-style rugs . |
| 29 | The so-called Stalker affair re-emerged throughout January 1990 following the collapse on Jan. 18 of fraud charges against Kevin Taylor , a Manchester businessman and alleged criminal with whom John Stalker , the former Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , was said to have associated and thus to have engaged in discreditable conduct . |
| 30 | This use seems generally to have grown in recent years . |