Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences . |
| 2 | SAVAGE GROUP , the USM quoted DIY retail chain , has dismissed almost 200 of its 1,000 UK staff in the face of a slump that cut earnings per share by a third . |
| 3 | Having lived in Walton for 29 years she has witnessed how much of the cliff has already been lost to the sea . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 5 | Yet that examination has stopped drastically short of a searching investigation into the past . |
| 6 | So advanced was his method , that the apparatus for distillation has altered very little in 900 years . |
| 7 | Bedworth has pled not guilty to three hacking offences . |
| 8 | Green has pled not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to murdering his wife , Julie , 24 , by clubbing her to death with a lump hammer in a storeroom at the rear of their home in Gidlow Lane , Wigan , in October 1991 . |
| 9 | ‘ I think , ’ said the Archdeacon , ‘ that since his wife died and his son 's ’ — he hesitated — ‘ death , he has withdrawn too much into his own company . |
| 10 | And the Lockerbie Enquiry has heard how seventeen of the two hundred and seventy victims on board have never been found . |
| 11 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 12 | Trade union membership has fallen partly due to higher unemployment and partly through changes in economic structure with more self-employed and more small employers . |
| 13 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 14 | Even the most fiendish human torturer has fallen far short of the agony provided by this small , shallow-water fish . |
| 15 | The reality has fallen far short of these early expectations . |
| 16 | English is such a rich language and has gathered so much from many linguistic sources that you must consciously choose and reject words if you are to write well . |
| 17 | To find out , visit the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery where in an exhibition : ‘ A Time of Transition : Contemporary printmaking from Russia and the Ukraine ’ , Bristol artist Peter Ford has gathered together some of the finest work of the practitioners of that region . |
| 18 | But there was a school of thought which advocated the claims of Andy Hayhurst , the Lancashire exile who has filled capably one of the opening-bat vacancies left by the departures of Cook and Roebuck . |
| 19 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 20 | The Presidential Rally on Tuesday evening saw Dr Hugh Kennedy take over as President , a fitting tribute in this Bicentenary of the BMS to someone who has given so much of his life to serving God and others through the BMS . |
| 21 | Opposition to conservatism has relied too much on traditional class subjectivity , only recently reading its divisions and movement . |
| 22 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 23 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 24 | He has grunched up hundreds of humans and literally millions of Minpins . |
| 25 | Oxfordshire County Council has picked up two of this year 's Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Awards ; the accolades are n't given lightly , and Moira Haines from the Preservation Trust says the County Council 's Awards are well deserved . |
| 26 | FOUR months after the traumas of 3-4 June , Hong Kong has picked up most of the pieces . |
| 27 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 28 | In recent years the problem of accidents and accident prevention has come very much to the fore because the huge scale of the problem is now recognised . |
| 29 | The idea of reparation has come very much to the fore in discus-sions about punishment in recent years , and we shall have more to say about various reparative forms of punishment in Chapter 7 . |
| 30 | ‘ NEARLY man ’ is an overused term in sport , a label that is often attached to anyone who has come remotely near to making an impact in their chosen vocation before failing to reach the exalted heights expected of them . |