Example sentences of "have [prep] the [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , he has from the start recognized your talent ; and two , he is in love with you . ’ |
| 2 | Extended development of heads and others has in the past amounted to little more than the agglomeration of courses relating to specific short-term issues . |
| 3 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 4 | Footnote : The annual Cliff Richard Pro Celebrity Tennis event , which has in the past enticed such unlikely names as onto court to raise funds for the Tennis Development Trust , will this year be played at the National Indoor Arena , in Birmingham , in December . |
| 5 | Human Communication , an important area of psychology , in which the Department has in the past had only piecemeal interests had been very significantly strengthened by the appointment of Professor Vicki Bruce . |
| 6 | Twice-married Mr Young , 67 , has in the past said the relationship was strong and he saw no reason to change it . |
| 7 | Whilst this is perhaps more straightforward in certain businesses like banks , or in other activities such as in the military or diplomatic field , it is no less important in other sectors where a security culture has in the past seemed unnecessary . |
| 8 | To qualify to jump in the competition that has in the past produced young internationals like Annette Lewis , Marie Edgar and Paul Sutton , she has had to tour all over England . |
| 9 | In spite of her disability , Elaine has in the past led a remarkably active and normal life . |
| 10 | Moreover , the GMC has in the past challenged unorthodox treatments . |
| 11 | I think Brian Way has in the past misjudged Dorothy Heathcote 's work because he has seen it as intellectual . |
| 12 | Attendance at such exhibitions has in the past allowed companies both to protect existing jobs and expand their workforces . |
| 13 | The Czech Electricity Company has in the past resisted using hard coal because of its higher cost . |
| 14 | Relief has also been refused on the ground that the applicant has in the past behaved badly in dealings with the respondent and so is undeserving of assistance . |
| 15 | It allowed and encouraged the possibility of longer-term co-operation with business and property development , which has in the past proved more difficult to achieve with locally elected councils , through which other interests may achieve higher levels of representation . |
| 16 | The Rye : Twist THE RYE are one of the NorthEast most successful homegrown bands at the moment , but their self-professed ‘ unpigeonhole-able ’ music has in the past proved too difficult for major record labels to get their heads around . |
| 17 | Dounreay has in the past reprocessed just over 250 spent fuel rods annually , and a maximum of 758 in any one year . |
| 18 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 19 | Nothing more than that someone , by no means necessarily the purchaser of the record , has in the past bought not from Nestle 's but from a retail shop three bars of chocolate and that the purchaser has thus directly or indirectly acquired the wrappers . |
| 20 | The Rayo system is likely to be sold to Chile which has in the past supplied arms to Saddam Hussein . |
| 21 | The arrival of Keown at Arsenal would put a question mark over the future of Steve Bould , although Graham has in the past employed a three-man system at the heart of the Highbury defence to great effect . |
| 22 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 23 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 24 | A farmer 's wife of Middle Farm has over the years developed a very attractive plant and shrub centre with success . |
| 25 | This has been a minority view for 15 years or more , but one kept alive by the persistent efforts of Chip Arp , of the California Institute of Technology , who has over the years produced a series of photographs which show objects with very different redshifts that are physically connected by streamers of material . |
| 26 | Taking a cue from Robert Indiana 's emblemised letterings of the 1960s , Matt Mullican has over the years built a rich vocabulary of geometric symbols which he has used and re-used in a variety of formats . |
| 27 | Bro Cernyw Aelwyd has over the years won in almost all sections of the Urdd 's activities , from Eisteddfod competitions to darts , pool , five-a-side football and twice runners up in the national quiz competition . |
| 28 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 29 | The statement of reasons merely referred to the current situation of the world market in fuel and declared that regard had been had to the bids received . |
| 30 | After an eight-year sojourn in Rutland the OCU moved again , in February 1976 to Marham , having in the meantime ceased PR conversion and lost its PR.3s . |