Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The outcome is that an industry which has skilfully managed to convert a chemical with meagre medical justification and considerable potential for harm ( Grinspoon and Hedblom 1975 ) into a legitimate drug , remained free from federal control to go on manufacturing , distributing , and advertising it .
2 Indeed , Lindsell regards this as virtually a twelfth business — and one which has also returned to profit after losing money heavily in the past few years .
3 Around 200 white wines were on the US tariffs blacklist , but a White House trade official would not deny they were taking special aim at France , which has persistently tried to block an agreement on farm subsidies and the prices of cereal substitutes .
4 AIR France , the state-owned carrier which has just agreed to buy its Belgian rival Sabena , trimmed its losses to land £68.5m in the red for 1991 .
5 Motoring : The soaring triumph of the exotic Stag : Blow all your savings on a rare classic convertible which has just started to show a major rise in value , says Roger Bell
6 A company wants to install a computer system in one of its departments which has previously had to use slow , laborious ( but reliable ) manual methods .
7 Meeting the need is very much the rationale for the creation of the English commercial court , which has consciously tried to accommodate to the needs of the City of London , especially in international insurance and shipping .
8 But the biggest scam of all is run by the Government , which has somehow managed to harness young energy , ambition and initiative without ever giving it a real chance to shine through .
9 The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget .
10 The results could have been disastrous for the force which has already had to freeze recruitment of officers during 1993 to keep within a tight budget .
11 According to Amersham finance director Bill Ellaby , the purchase of Medi-Physics , which has already started to reorganise its business to eliminate losses before completion of the deal , will have a neutral effect on earnings per share at Amersham this year but a positive effect in 1990/1 .
12 Consumption will rise in period t+4 : But investment will start to fall because , according to the accelerator , the level of investment depends on the change in income ( which has now begun to decrease ) : So , after rising from periods t to t + 3 , income has now stayed the same from period t + 3 to t + 4 .
13 The second number of the 1993 volume , which has now gone to print , contains an extra selection of book reviews , and as well as the usual listing it has several other items that will be of interest to anyone who wants to keep up to date with what is being published .
14 Er around this period we have the widespread use of things like colour television which has now started to appear in everybody 's homes and the beginnings of various holiday programmes .
15 Christian Aid was involved in a Third World Consortium which has now ceased to exist — why ?
16 The Jesuits commissioned a series of canvases of The Passion from Škréta , the remainder of which has now come to rest in the s gallery at the W end .
17 African , coloured and Indian papers have been silenced by successive measures taken by a white South African government which has consistently attempted to stifle the free expression of non-white opinion .
18 Disney , which has always refused to concede contractors ' claims , declared yesterday that its payment to CGCE which has undertaken £13.5m of work on the Paris theme park was related ‘ only to those of the group 's claims which are judged to be well-founded . ’
19 To date , such experiments have failed under dual pressure — from the Marxist-based Left , which has been unwilling to concede the fight for its class interests , and from the Right , which has continually threatened to halt the reform process .
20 The Association issued in 1975 a compendium , Not by books alone ( Waite and Colebourne 1975 ) but few of the reprinted articles were initiated within the SLA , which has unfortunately tended to resemble a pressure-group of teachers of English i/c Libraries rather than an innovatory body .
21 As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition .
22 However , Ukraine invited representatives from the other CIS states to meet on Feb. 25 to negotiate repayment mechanisms ; at the meeting , which Russia had not attended , Ukraine had offered to become responsible for the share of the debt incurred by Moldova , Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan , which had also refused to sign the memorandum ( their share of the debt being minimal ) .
23 The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky .
24 The suspicions of the two shore watchers were soon aroused by the activities of the Ann Lynn , one of the local boats which had just arrived to land a party of sea anglers .
25 And he wanted to be part of that ruling , governing , corrupting , self-enriching , self-perpetuating , invincible body which had even managed to escape revolution — he wanted to be high on its highest heap .
26 These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week .
27 Instead , IFEMA have plunged down the desperate road of offering ten complimentary booths to leading galleries , which had not committed to attend the fair , in an attempt to bolster ARCO 's international image .
28 But just as man 's dates were being pushed back , there came an unhappy interaction between geology and physics , again two sciences which had not seemed to have a common frontier .
29 Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further .
30 The Doctor 's voice , which had briefly seemed to come from the air all around , returned to a cheerier norm .
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