Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 2 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 3 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 4 | Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd admitted : ‘ The announcement has come out earlier than we intended . ’ |
| 5 | Police have released a series of security photos of a man they believe has carried out more than twenty armed raids . |
| 6 | He knows when to turn back and he has turned back frequently when things are n't right . |
| 7 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 8 | The discovery of her father 's history of abuse is not only a personal tragedy to Miss X. Resale of the family home means she has missed out financially because the house , valued at £32,500 , was purchased by her for only £14,625 after a standard 55 per cent discount was made . |
| 9 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 10 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 11 | ‘ Instead of leading the way in the Community , Britain has trailed along behind whilst others have taken the lead . ’ |
| 12 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 13 | The Group has taken on more than 30 schools in the mining communities in an effort to improve the standard of education among the disadvantaged groups of the community . |
| 14 | The joiner work was from nicely matched teak , the surface of which showed few of the marks that one would expect in a yacht whose log has ticked off more than 16,000 miles ( 25,000km ) of long distance cruising . |
| 15 | A mysterious disease which has killed off more than 4,000 piglets in Europe is spreading . |
| 16 | John Reid has splashed out more than £1 million to buy a new home so he can look at the famous sign . |
| 17 | But Labour 's Coun. Scott , who has clocked up more than 25 years on the borough council , has also shown an increasing commitment to the improvement of the region . |
| 18 | With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase . |
| 19 | With a drop of 42% from the peak reached in 1990 the German Expressionist Index has held up better than the more volatile sectors of French and American painting . |
| 20 | Course they were worried because they they 'd bit off more than they could chew , same as you say about this like you see . |
| 21 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 22 | That brief reference to his stepfather was haunting her , and she wished she 'd found out more while she had the chance . |
| 23 | Your marriage must have broken down irretrievably because you and your husband or wife have lived apart either for at least two years and your husband or wife will consent to the divorce in writing or for at least five years . |
| 24 | Little as she relished the idea , she supposed she would have to go up there before the light went altogether — see if there was some kind of signal she could make to advertise her presence . |
| 25 | I was lucky not to break the elbow — a colleague in the cycling club appeared that week with arm in sling , having fallen off exactly as I did . |
| 26 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 27 | However , the bar might not have come out even though the coin was put in . |
| 28 | My second example of an evolutionary progression that did n't happen because of disadvantageous intermediates , even though it might ultimately have turned out better if it had , concerns the retina of our eyes ( and all other vertebrates ) . |
| 29 | It seems odd , at first sight , that the potteries of Stoke-on-Trent ( q.v. ) should have grown up more than two hundred miles away from the source of their vital ingredient , but in fact the manufacture of stoneware and earthenware had been established in Staffordshire long before the secret of porcelain was found , and that area had the necessary clay , coal and water supplies for the growth of the industry . |
| 30 | Events having turned out better than we expected , we returned to make our plans for the following Sunday when we intended to open . |