Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democrat Congressman Long has given full rein to his total unworthiness as a man and as a government functionary in his dealings with a country which is a friend to his government and to his nation . |
| 2 | St Patrick must greatly have simplified Irish thought , a turn for the better , when he introduced Christianity . |
| 3 | Bury and Stockport once more topped the list , with third place going to Bradford , an authority where the national attention paid to the city 's politics , and the polarising of political opinion on the ground , can only have increased electoral interest . |
| 4 | All new school buildings in northern China , where the weather is cold and bright , will henceforth have built-in solar energy installations . |
| 5 | You do n't look old enough to have left senior school ! ’ |
| 6 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 7 | Legislators will not normally have had prior experience of governing , nor do they provide a government-in-waiting , as in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 9 | If it transpired that the intervention notice was not justified , and Lautro rescinded it , a press notice might already have caused substantial damage to the person affected . |
| 10 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 11 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 12 | Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’ |
| 13 | In the study by Holly et al 18% of female cases and 14% of controls reported ever having had anal intercourse . |
| 14 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 15 | A more qualified response might be , yes , in various ways which collectively have shaped musical life as we know it . |
| 16 | Good management coaches usually have had considerable practice at developing their abilities . |
| 17 | At the same time , men usually have got full time jobs , as well ! |
| 18 | In dismissing [ h ] -loss in the manner described , however , scholars may also have dismissed important evidence for the study of how linguistic changes are implemented and diffused . |
| 19 | However , developments in computer technology ( eg microcomputers linked to a larger central computer or networked micros ) may also have made decentralised management control easier and cheaper . |
| 20 | They will also have gained considerable confidence in confronting , examining and expressing new ideas in a new language . |
| 21 | Frisch suggested that underweight women would also have impaired reproductive function owing to a lack of oestrogen produced in adipose tissue . |
| 22 | That approach seems also to have provided considerable attraction for Parke B. ; but although the point was left open by him , the case was decided by the majority ( Parke and Platt BB. ) on the ground of compulsion . |
| 23 | The microwave combination 's ability to prime cook à la carte dishes in about a fifth of the usual time offers opportunities to introduce items on the menu which traditionally have meant advance ordering , for example , racks of lamb , beef Wellingtons , en croûte dishes and so on . |
| 24 | They also have described Moral Re-Armament as a ‘ global ideology , with bridgeheads on every continent , now in its final phase of total expansion throughout the world . |
| 25 | IBM Corp will launch two new Thinkpad laptops within the next couple of weeks according to documents seen by Computerworld : the paper says the new ThinkPad 720 and 720C machines will be based on the current Model 700s with faster 25/50MHz 486SLC2 processors , 160Mb hard disks and management facilities that bump battery life up to 7.75 hours on the monochrome and 4.8 hours on the colour version ; the new machines also have improved peripheral support , with space for either two PCMCIA type 2 cards or a single type 3 ; a new sub-notebook computer is also ready , but will not be announced until the summer . |
| 26 | Whether or not he would eventually have become chief executive is academic : the move to Provincial seems to have met a need to apply what is generally considered to be the sharp mind and highly effective set of skills of this simultaneously affable and well-organised character to a more absorbing challenge . |
| 27 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 28 | One moon was the crescent that until now had claimed sole tenancy of the night . |
| 29 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 30 | In this case a driver may well have exercised due care and attention but the offence of driving without reasonable consideration may still be committed . |