Example sentences of "have [be] drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin . |
| 2 | the increasing stranglehold of the big brewers has led to high prices , poor choice and pub closures ; and many new small breweries have been driven out of business . |
| 3 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 4 | To some extent they have been driven to this by brutal economics . |
| 5 | As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’ |
| 6 | Tree logs are to be found only in the shallow waters and in Urquhan Bay , Lochend and Dores , where they have been driven by the prevailing wind . |
| 7 | These hairs have been driven into the wound but not cut through — you see ? |
| 8 | As DeJong says , ‘ One single purpose has attained predominance , has acquired the monopoly for which everything is sacrificed : the others have been driven out , either totally or into special roads ’ . |
| 9 | Small operators have been driven into bankruptcy or bought up by the giants , and buses have become older and less reliable . |
| 10 | This information is sometimes used today in building wooden houses but , on the whole , mechanical connexions of all kinds have been driven out by modern glues which have made the efficient use of wood possible but have introduced problems of their own . |
| 11 | Although the vast majority are hardened by their loss , others have been driven over the edge of madness . |
| 12 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 13 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
| 14 | There poor Paddies in London even now , God love them , who have been driven out of their homes by the Proddies . |
| 15 | I was truthfully able to award eighteen points out of twenty for the spring onion soup , nineteen for the marinated chicken , nineteen for the mango mousse and the coconut pudding , and a full twenty for the fish curry ( Goans ca n't abide a meal without fish ; and expatriates have been driven to sprinkling dried fish on baked beans ) . |
| 16 | The majority of hippies have been driven out of Goa . |
| 17 | And Sarrance is the setting in which her group of competing story-tellers gather , after they have been driven out of the spa of Cauterets , up in the mountains , by bad weather . |
| 18 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |
| 19 | Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields , sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing . |
| 20 | About 40 per cent of the 300,000 inhabitants have been driven off the land by the shrimp firms mainly in the direction of the overcrowded cities . |
| 21 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 22 | What advice or comfort can the Under-Secretary of State offer to those providers of training on Merseyside who have been driven out of business because insufficient resources have been allocated to the Merseyside TEC to provide contracts to them ? |
| 23 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 24 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 25 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 26 | The elephants have been driven from their normal habitat by the construction of a dam and some have taken to plundering farmers ' maize crops . |
| 27 | Mechanic , Steve Bunce is finding more and more work for himself with cars which have been driven on unleaded fuel and which are running into trouble . |
| 28 | ‘ The changes have been driven by the government 's introduction of market forces into the health service , ’ he said . |
| 29 | A FAMILY have been driven out of their Liverpool home by what they claim is a poltergeist . |
| 30 | Alison , 26 , who has two children — Tracey , 3 , and Antony , 15 months — said : ‘ We have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit . |