Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby . |
| 2 | We Westerners find it hard to understand or admire the growth and success of Islamic fundamentalism , but the traditional Muslims have realised far better than the ‘ progressives ’ that if you want to resist consumerism and individualism then you have to capture the public ground and control the country from the centre . |
| 3 | ‘ I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … . |
| 4 | I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 5 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 6 | Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow . |
| 7 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
| 8 | ‘ It turned out to be pretty energy-sapping record to make , actually , but the last two albums have done pretty well so we had the luxury of doing some hit-or-miss experimentation in the studio . |
| 9 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 10 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Some — especially those in the south or those with a wide range of incentives such as regional and European Community assistance — have done much better than others . |
| 12 | Although average sales per outlet have shown a slight decrease in each of the last five years , some of our licensees have done much better than others . |
| 13 | From Figure 4.3 it can be seen that shareholders of Jaguar have done very well since privatisation — especially as a result of the bid from Ford . |
| 14 | Corby and Wellingborough fall into this category , while others , for example , Milford Haven ( Dyfed ) and Tayside , have done less well because of factors such as distance from markets , location within depressed regions , and so on . |
| 15 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , some prices have risen even faster than rents , bringing lower yields . |
| 17 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |
| 18 | Students in London have suffered particularly badly because of the Government 's decision to make students ineligible for housing benefit . |
| 19 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
| 20 | I believe that the linkages to the meteorological stations have operated more effectively than hitherto . |
| 21 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 22 | The idea that the rich world faces a rubbish crisis has been aggravated by the fact that in some countries new landfills have opened more slowly than old ones have closed . |
| 23 | Should general SVQs be able to differentiate students who have performed significantly better than required ? |
| 24 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |
| 25 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 26 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |
| 27 | The Jewish Museum and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have brought together more than 350 artefacts , photographs , documents and artworks exploring the relationships among African Americans and American Jews in the twentieth century . |
| 28 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 29 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 30 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |