Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few months , for instance , our Government has single-handedly ensured that the new directive on efficiency standards for boilers ended up far weaker than initially proposed by the commission . |
| 2 | The population of Liverpool has vastly reduced since the so-called Labour party policy took over our great city . |
| 3 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 4 | The Statistics Branch of the Northern Ireland Department of Commerce has since confirmed that the slump in industrial production was similar to that of the earlier strike in 1974 . |
| 5 | The minister has since explained that the committee found conflicting evidence in a ‘ preliminary report ’ from Indianapolis , the home of Lilly 's research laboratories . |
| 6 | The son has since died and the daughter has handed over her interests in the case to lawyers . |
| 7 | Dr Spufford 's book has successfully demonstrated that the timing of this change depended in large measure upon the farming system and the social and economic structure of the communities that were affected . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman has obviously recognised that the Prime Minister secured for us a major competitive advantage at Maastricht . |
| 9 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 10 | He has obviously forgotten that the Government decided not to introduce a tax on world income in 1989 , following consultation and representations from the Labour party . |
| 11 | The psychoanalyst J. A. Hadfield has brilliantly shown that the trouble with this type of approach , even with material from one 's own culture , is that it is essentially arbitrary . |
| 12 | It has all happened since the story appeared in the EADT appealing for sponsors . ’ |
| 13 | Since then the number of users has only increased and the market has been penetrated with new drugs . |
| 14 | The Catholic Christian has perhaps decided that the protestant sees the sacrament merely as a memorial service , witnessing to an event in the past . |
| 15 | The North has meanwhile proposed that the ‘ Great Leader ’ , Kim Il Sung , should meet South Korea 's president . |
| 16 | If there is no significant difference between the two baselines ( ie if the CB has not increased and the PB has not decreased ) then the method of intervention is not working . |
| 17 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 18 | Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions . |
| 19 | Most undershoot accidents occur because the pilot has not recognised that the glider is critically short of height until it is desperately low . |
| 20 | Black has not played since the 3-1 defeat by Spain in Seville last April and was an unused substitute in the two Baltic end of the season fixtures . |
| 21 | Portugal has not claimed that the treaty is void , but that its negotiation and conclusion are with a State that has no legal authority over the territory in question . |
| 22 | Leslie , who lives at Corston , near Bath , Avon , has not spoken since the Rolls-Royce crash that put him in Bristol 's Frenchay Hospital . |
| 23 | Although the theory is that all important power is concentrated in the hands of the state , this has not meant that the individual has been regarded as powerless . |
| 24 | Concentration on the needs of the young has not meant that the elderly have been forgotten . |
| 25 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |
| 26 | McHale 's men have won just once in eight matches and Fletcher has not started since the 5–1 defeat at Barnet on February 8 . |
| 27 | The gay community has not benefited as the case presented the media with yet another opportunity to imply that there is something libellous and ‘ wrong ’ with being gay . |
| 28 | We now turn up Avenida Zarco past the Post Office , which has recently been re-modelled inside in glass and marble and with all the latest computer equipment — but the service has not improved and the stamps still have no glue . |
| 29 | A large proportion of these vital exports pass through the Straits of Hormuz , yet despite attempts by the participants in the Iran-Iraq war to restrict or even stop the movement of tankers this has not occurred and the earlier fear of a serious disruption to supplies has largely abated . |
| 30 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |