Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Software for Free has been written especially to help you make that decision without having to plough through mountains of Shareware and Public Domain Software first . |
| 2 | The singing is always very fine and full bodied , although I feel that the chance has been missed occasionally to drop the dynamic level to the point where hairs are raised . |
| 3 | In some cases , this has been done deliberately to encourage use of calculators , and also in order to change the emphasis in the aspects of number which are taught and learned . |
| 4 | Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime . |
| 5 | For example , most people will not mind waiting a few extra minutes in a hospital waiting room if they know that the doctor has been called away to deal with an emergency . |
| 6 | In the light of the misunderstandings and bitterness which can affect all the parties involved in an industrial dispute , it is perhaps regrettable that no attempt has been made adequately to define the legal rights of workers involved in such disputes . |
| 7 | Mathcad 4.0 has been made easier to use thanks to its new toolbar , cut and paste , auto scrolling , auto equation and text alignment , zoom , drag and drop facilities . |
| 8 | He and his people are in need of food , and a party has been sent here to investigate the Dalek city . |
| 9 | The closer one can get to reality , the easier the learning by the student , provided that the necessary knowledge has been given previously to facilitate comprehension . |
| 10 | More recently , however , such theories have been extensively criticized ; the concept of development has been broadened again to take account of social and cultural , as well as economic , features ; and more attention has been given to development as a world-wide process in which there is a close interrelationship between events in different regions . |
| 11 | As a result of demand , the variety of door styles has been expanded greatly to include a wide range of wood effect panels , some very beautiful wood veneers , wallpapered panels and for those who wish to achieve total co-ordination in their chosen decor — the fabric covered panel . |
| 12 | A smooth , forward sweeping style has been back-combed slightly to create body and movement |
| 13 | PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis . |
| 14 | The fish that used to feed them has been taken away to feed animals . |
| 15 | The department has been forced recently to increase its prices but will continue to offer its services to the Governing Bodies of Sport at a heavily subsidised rate , well below that of competitive commercial rates . |
| 16 | Without going into detailed calculations which readers can obtain for themselves , the concept has been introduced here to provide a clear distinction between internal operating efficiency and action on relative prices . |
| 17 | But the worst aspect of the present cricket set-up is the advent of four-day county cricket this season , which has been introduced solely to prepare players for Test cricket . |
| 18 | Blumenthal ( 1969 ) suggests that six strategies are possible and these are discussed first , although the meaning of each has been changed somewhat to take account of the technological and other developments that have taken place since that text was published . |
| 19 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |
| 20 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 21 | This procedure has been used extensively to analyse the CAAT repeat region from several different lic loci derived from a variety of H.influenzae strains and has proved to be highly reproducible . |
| 22 | NAG has been used extensively to identify and monitor potentially nephrotoxic drugs , its excretion increases in a dose dependent manner following the ingestion of aspirin and sodium salicylate and high concentrations are found in patients with established analgesic nephropathy . |
| 23 | In recent years the evidence of court rolls has been used extensively to try to reconstruct the character of society . |
| 24 | The notion of response competition has been used here to provide a framework for an intervention . |
| 25 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 26 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 27 | An in vitro transcription assay has been used previously to probe a variety of drug-DNA interactions ( 10 ) and has been utilised for bidirectional transcription footprinting of drug sites on DNA ( 11,12 ) . |
| 28 | The polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) has been used previously to amplify DNA from single bacterial colonies ( 1 ) . |
| 29 | This is the trigger question which has been used recently to encourage students in the Department of Industrial Technology to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the management , delivery and content of their course . |
| 30 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |