Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so , that in the conventional use of the term , ‘ being critical ’ has come almost exclusively to mean that the object or action in question has fallen short of the standards in question . |
| 2 | With limited resources , manager Jim Jefferies has done remarkably well to keep Falkirk in the big league . |
| 3 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 4 | The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to tell you that Craig will not be bothering you any longer , he has found somewhere else to stay . ’ |
| 6 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 7 | For her latest exhibition , Oulton has gone even further to distance herself from Old Master traditions and concepts of Englishness . |
| 8 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 9 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 10 | Yet this is also the government which has fought most ruthlessly to bring EuroDisneyland to Marne la Vallee in the early 1990s . |
| 11 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 12 | The light has strengthened enough now to gather binoculars and telescope and start up the car for a look round my ‘ patch ’ . |
| 13 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 14 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 15 | Budding classicists amongst you will quickly realise that Intel has managed rather clumsily to match a Greek prefix to a Latin suffix . |
| 16 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 17 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 18 | I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’ |
| 19 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 20 | The old man must have moved very softly to get within twenty yards of him unheard , although the quiet afternoon was in fact a steady rumble and distant clatter of farm machinery . |
| 21 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 22 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 23 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 24 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 25 | By the time they were old enough to ride ( another three years ) they would have cost considerably more to keep ! |
| 26 | This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey , but would have taken much longer to collect . |
| 27 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 28 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 29 | There are now few poultry farms within listening distance but , according to a nineteenth century folklorist , ‘ In ancient days the cocks must have crowed most lustily to have produced vibrations on either the sensitive rock or the tympanum of man ’ . |
| 30 | Having waited long enough to see if they were needed , the two girls went up to Moran and kissed him on the lips as they did every night . |