Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina . |
| 2 | On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes . |
| 3 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 4 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 5 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 6 | All attempts to engineer a dialogue between the two have so far come to nothing , whether through UN Security Council resolutions in a sequel to the bilateral Camp David peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978 , or through attempts to associate the PLO leadership with either Jordan or Egypt in the direct talks between them and the Israelis from which the latter have always recoiled . |
| 7 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 8 | On an associated matter , I have only just written to Mrs Sharp formally requesting permission to borrow the large Slezer view of Edinburgh from the North currently hanging in the Edinburgh Room . |
| 9 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 10 | In this chapter we have only really attended to the negative , critical , edge of left theory in so far as it challenges rival perspectives on parties and pressures . |
| 11 | The general law is somewhat ambivalent on parents and children , and indeed the rights of children have only recently begun to be recognised . |
| 12 | However , two additional issues have only recently begun to be explored : first , the extent to which the work of informal care-giving also incurs extra expenditure , over and above any additional costs arising directly out of disablement ; and , secondly , the extent to which the costs of disablement are in fact borne by carers and other members of their households , because the incomes of disabled and elderly people themselves are simply too low . |
| 13 | But not this next example , the extent of which I have only recently begun to fully appreciate . |
| 14 | Historians recently decided to lower the estimated number of Auschwitz victims , from 4m — a figure chosen by Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp in 1945 — to between 1m and 2m , an estimate based on transport documents which have only recently come to light . |
| 15 | The first of these statements , which have only recently come to light , was by Lt-Col D M C Worrall MC and Maj J G Denny MC of the Durham Light Infantry : " On the evening of 15 May the handover of Croatian personnel to the YUGOSLAV ARMY was proceeding . |
| 16 | Several species , since body weight is no longer such a problem , have once again taken to armour . |
| 17 | ‘ Hillsborough stadium and its staff have once again proved to be a suitable venue to stage major sporting events . |
| 18 | Two of the leading churchmen , Bishops Wishart of Glasgow and Fraser of St. Andrews , have once more summoned to Scone the Prelates , Abbots , Priors , Earls , Barons and all good men of the country to renew their fealty to the new queen over the water , the Maid of Norway . |
| 19 | Derived from policies which seek to preserve the landscape qualities of the English countryside , such estates have more often contributed to its deterioration . |
| 20 | But in other situations — for instance in asserting a mother 's special right not to be deprived of her children , or in offering characteristically female insights to correct a narrowly male view of life — they have equally naturally appealed to the idea of a distinct female nature . |
| 21 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 22 | The heavy stocking levels in the Powys LFA ( over 40% higher than in Cantal based on 1979/80 data ) have almost certainly contributed to the losses of heather moorland and the reduction in the diversity of species associated with pasture grasslands . |
| 23 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 24 | It is a document about the Labour party 's policy attitudes and it rightly points out that more than half of Labour Members have either recently belonged to or still belong to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . |
| 25 | The Smiths have never really conformed to the pop ideal , being larger than life but twice as monotonous , although some would disagree . |