Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so . |
| 2 | Moulds were used as antiseptics long before the discovery of antibiotics , but modern pharmacology has vastly extended their utility by analysing their active products , producing these in large amounts and making variations on their structures . |
| 3 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 4 | She last spoke to the priest five months before the birth and has since lost her teaching job . |
| 5 | Eddery has since lost his title to Michael Roberts , the first South African jockey to win it , and Scudamore is finding it hard to close the growing daylight between himself and leader Richard Dunwoody . |
| 6 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 7 | McLean has since announced his retirement . |
| 8 | He has since repositioned his Karabiner in a pocket and removed as many loops as possible from his equipment . |
| 9 | The brand new two-car Networker Class 456 Electric Multiple Unit recently on exhibition inside the Great Hall at York , has since relinquished its pride of place beside the Channel Tunnel section . |
| 10 | In 1983 they missed capturing the seat by only 74 votes but the sitting Tory MP , Jeremy Hanley , has since increased his majority . |
| 11 | The UK branch has since changed its name to The Family , which today strenuously denied the allegations in Argentina and accused a ‘ small group of disgruntled ex-members ’ and anti-cult organisations of spreading ‘ outrageous ’ lies . |
| 12 | In a later subsection , we shall see how Taylor has since reformulated his approach to soccer hooliganism . |
| 13 | Kellock has since retitled its service Cashflow Finance in an attempt to overcome this barrier . |
| 14 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
| 15 | Cleese has since sold his share of Video Arts for a reputed £7 million , but he still makes films for them . |
| 16 | Anyway , he has since wished his father a Happy New Year , |
| 17 | Stainrod , whose early-season thoughts tended towards quietly edging away from the playing side to concentrate on management matters , has since rediscovered his scoring touch . |
| 18 | His dealer , played by the art dealer Gracie Mansion ( who has since closed her gallery ) , offers a memorable observation : ‘ I 'm used to shows that sell out before the wine 's open ’ . |
| 19 | This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century . |
| 20 | It has successfully completed its task and is returning home . |
| 21 | Ellen has successfully treated her husband Ray Smith for cancer of the liver . |
| 22 | A company executive , who lost his job after being accused of groping office girls and returning drunk form champagne lunches on his £1,000-a-month expense account , has successfully cleared his name . |
| 23 | They only feed the cuckoo because it has successfully manipulated their behaviour . |
| 24 | Since joining the University 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a New Blood Lecturer in 1984 , she has successfully divided her time between teaching and research , and establishing not only a national charity but two commercial companies as well . |
| 25 | Labour has successfully shed its image of a party of sandal-wearing social workers from the 1960s . |
| 26 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 27 | For years , the US 's biggest fast food company has staunchly defended its right to use the plastic box in its restaurants , claiming foam packaging to be not only the best deterrent for grease and insulator of heat , but environmentally sound too . |
| 28 | However , Mr. Collins ( if I have understood him correctly ) has expressly limited his challenge to Lautro 's failure to allow the making of representations before the service of the intervention notice . |
| 29 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 30 | Your political editor has inadequately researched his statement that the Prime Minister ‘ has not made his religious views known ’ ( report of 20 March ) . |