Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
2 | A flock of American eagles have successfully made more than one takeover . |
3 | Dr Williamson , a consultant from Southampton , is to head the new unit , for which South Durham people have already given more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
4 | Cuts in the defence industry have already seen more than three thousand people lose their jobs at the Dowty Group and Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire over the alst three years . |
5 | The investment bankers that bought Wickes last November have already sold more than $400m in assets and are taking it private . |
6 | Shops in Gujarat have already sold more than 7000 . |
7 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
8 | ‘ What is known , however , is that we have already sold more than 60 per cent of the public tickets and will be informing the lucky applicants by 1 April instead of 30 June as we originally intended . ’ |
9 | Liverpool Bay partners LASMO , Hamilton and Monument have already spent more than £O million on the project and gas has been sold to Powergen , one of the UK 's major power generators . |
10 | Mrs Roper and her husband have already paid more than £290 . |
11 | Workers from the centre have already helped more than 50 people . |
12 | I have already identified more than one type of contradiction ; those that can exist between one 's fantasies and what one would actually do or enjoy in real life , and those that can exist between one 's understanding of the oppressive nature of some discourse or practice and one 's continuing investment of desire and finding of pleasure in it . |
13 | And there are some old dishes entirely characteristic of this stretch of the Rhone itself and which have hardly spread farther than the villages and towns on the river banks . |
14 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
15 | For example , why do we accept what we have always presupposed rather than proved ? |
16 | Each project has had problems with builders -buildings have always taken longer than anticipated . |
17 | Politicians and civil servants have probably learned less than either of them . |
18 | The musically gifted have probably fared better than most . |
19 | I have had good catches before the moon rises and have also done well after it has set , but periods when the moon is bright at night are best ignored . |
20 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
21 | I hope that the inquiry will underline the fact that , by and large , children do not lie about such matters and that the people who have now come forward as adults have probably been permanently damaged because no one would pay any attention to what they said . |
22 | Police have now interviewed more than 600 people and taken 1,500 statements in the year-long probe . |
23 | Food prices have consistently risen less than the retail prices index . |
24 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
25 | Gifts to museums have therefore fallen dramatically since the one-year tax window allowing full deductibility closed on 30 June . |
26 | They have therefore suffered more than most from cuts in the housing programme . |
27 | Referring to the theatre 's revolving stage , the Prince joked : ‘ I have never hoped more than now that I might revolve round there behind the scenes . ’ |
28 | I am not an idle man , I have never worked harder than I do here . ’ |
29 | Then there are some pathetic , weedy looking swots , inadequately equipped and unsuitably dressed , in gaberdine raincoats and Oxford shoes , unwieldy packs all done up with string , who look as if they have never walked farther than a hundred yards at any time in their lives . |