Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Smith , who has jumped much higher than his rival this summer , responded : ‘ They 'll be making a big mistake if they do n't pick me . ’ |
| 2 | One such friend has recalled how observant and amusing he could be , how quick to comment upon other people 's expressions or appearance which he would associate with psychological traits . |
| 3 | Public choice theory has developed both analytical and constructive dimensions . |
| 4 | Central government has always been involved in promoting local economic change , and since the 1930s has developed explicitly sub-national and spatially differentiated economic policy . |
| 5 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
| 6 | and like me Auntie Jean has to go down three and four times a day sometimes . |
| 7 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 8 | Since 1979 however , demand has fallen slightly more than total energy demand so that the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by gas in 1983 was marginally below the 1979 level . |
| 9 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 10 | But it also believes that the external value of the pound has fallen too low and is undervalued at current exchange rates . |
| 11 | The cost of coverage of a typical meeting was £1,412 , and that is what a single customer would have to pay , but when many channels have been interested , the price has fallen as low as £36 . |
| 12 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 13 | In Peking at least , the resurrection of past models and heroes has provoked more giggling than respect , spawning a rash of political jokes . |
| 14 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |
| 15 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , after a shower of icy rain the temperature has dropped even lower and I am finding it very difficult to move my fingers , they are so numb . |
| 17 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 18 | The industry 's insularity has cracked wide open since the Blues Brothers first walked into a bar and demanded to know what kind of music was played . |
| 19 | Japan 's ASCII Corporation has picked up Japanese and Korean distribution rights to Santa Clara , California-based Nimbus Technology Inc 's new Mbus board for would-be superscalar Sparc cloners ( UX No 383 ) and other products : ASCII , the lead investor in Chips & Technologies Inc back in 1987 , is also considering taking a minority stake in the start-up though that part of the equation has yet to be nailed down . |
| 20 | Mr Hazell said : ‘ He has come as close as anyone can to meeting his maker and surviving . ’ |
| 21 | The MRP has carried out geochemical and geophysical surveys in the area and drilled a number of shallow holes ( MRP 103 ) . |
| 22 | Joey Beauchamp has looked as lively as sharp as any over the last few weeks . |
| 23 | Because of this stagnation , material evolvement has grown cankerously over-dominant since materials merely serve to aid man 's spiritual realisation . |
| 24 | Since the time of Winckelmann , Goethe and Schiller , the German attempt to recreate the achievement of ancient Greek culture has grown increasingly feebler because of a failure to penetrate into the essence of the Greek spirit . |
| 25 | So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia . |
| 26 | More grist has filled the pessimists ' mill in the years since the Joint Declaration , as Peking has grown more assertive and London more timid . |
| 27 | The number of councillors is small relative to the size of the population they represent ; and the ratio has grown still larger since local government reorganisation in the 1970s reduced the number of local authorities and hence of councillors . |
| 28 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 29 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 30 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |