Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received recently regarding an eco-labelling scheme for environmentally benign products ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | Odour assessment has developed therefore using sensory methods of analysis , that is measuring human responses to them . |
| 3 | Drexel , which used to commit $3 billion-5 billion of its own funds to market-making , has stopped even quoting prices on 3,000–4,000 junk bonds . |
| 4 | The number of visitors to Redcar has fallen dramatically according to latest figures and Langbaurgh councillors blame its ‘ invisible ’ tourist information office , which has moved from the seafront to Dundas Street . |
| 5 | Because the , the market becomes much smaller , right , there is , world trade in agricultural products has fallen relatively speaking , right , as a result , that market is going to be very , very volatile , it only takes say er , bad harvest in Argentina , or er , Australia , in one country , that does n't have support programmes , to affect the world market substantially , because that one supplier is now relatively large , because most major erm , countries are self , are now self sufficient . |
| 6 | A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child . |
| 7 | Since that time , despite a further decline in profit margins , Amstrad 's PAS-score has risen again following attention to its balance sheet . |
| 8 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
| 9 | Next Computer Inc , which has been through a tidy sum already , has gotten further financing : this time a $55m credit line from Canon Inc and another $10m from Steve Jobs himself — both are former investors already . |
| 10 | This has raised far reaching and important issues of conscience since the Code was first published . |
| 11 | Although reform proposals have received little political support , the case for disability discrimination legislation has become increasingly compelling . |
| 12 | The need for national qualifications for those carrying out the main functions in the assessment process has become increasingly pressing . |
| 13 | The once-daunting atmosphere has become genuinely welcoming . |
| 14 | But it is not adequate for many of the tasks of the modern capitalist state which has to intervene increasingly according to a ‘ substantive ’ rather than ‘ formal ’ rationality ( Therborn 1978 : 54 , 89 ) based on highly specialized forms of expertise ( e.g. Dunleavy 1982 : 196–205 ) — for example , in production itself . |
| 15 | David Smith has spent today thrashing out compensation terms with Stoke chairman Peter Coates . |
| 16 | I hope that I shall not embarrass the Minister if I commend him again for his imaginative efforts and the time that he has spent abroad trying to develop inward investment . |
| 17 | This combination of measures has pulled home shopping up from its early '80s doldrums : '89 turnover was £956 million and pre-interest profits a reasonably respectable £54.4 million . |
| 18 | This has involved both training at Henley and in centres elsewhere in the World . |
| 19 | In the past , this has involved both reprimanding the broadcasters and offering them support , particularly when under attack from outsiders . |
| 20 | The approach to finding exact solutions that has been taken so far has involved initially solving the field equations in the interaction region IV and then investigating the conditions under which these solutions can be considered as the result of collisions of plane waves . |
| 21 | The social order has gone largely missing . |
| 22 | Chris has worked hard spreading the work and has also started a Class in Newbury , an area completely new to Medau . |
| 23 | Specifically , during the 1980s this has meant progressively losing control over economic policy in return for merging her currency with those of her EEC partners . |
| 24 | A Clydesdale crew has admitted mistakenly racing and winning at restricted two level in the recent Prontaprint Fours Head . |
| 25 | But Carla has denied ever having an affair with Mick and says she has never even been to Thailand . |
| 26 | Now numbering 70 ewes — all PI — the flock has achieved wide showing success and gained a reputation , especially in the midlands and south , for the quality of its rams . |
| 27 | I 'd just like to make two or three points first of all the exchange factor which Frank touched upon when , when talking about profits you probably all totally familiar but I have forgotten quite how much the dollar has strengthened recently beginning of the year it was nearly two dollars and the result of that is that for the erm first half as a whole the impact of er exchange translation was adverse for our profits compared with last year to the tune of about one and a half million pounds . |
| 28 | How much Tory support has dwindled away following the community charge debacle is open to question . |
| 29 | It 's funny how you can spend every minute of every day with someone , and then never see her for weeks on end , just because you 'd stopped even thinking about her . |
| 30 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |