Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |
| 2 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 3 | A bright nova flared up here in 1936 , but has long since become much too faint to be seen except with very large telescopes . |
| 4 | A bright nova flared up in Pictor in 1925 , and reached the first magnitude , but has long since become very faint . |
| 5 | ‘ No prospect of the green shoots of economic recovery ’ , said Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ; ‘ new hardcover literary fiction , unless by well-established authors , will sell , if that is possible , even fewer copies , to the point of virtual extinction ’ , said Tom Rosenthal ; ‘ fiction … has long since become all by a branch of gynaecology ’ , said Colin Haycraft . |
| 6 | In most European countries insider dealing has only just become an offence , thanks to a 1989 European Community directive . |
| 7 | But the horridly fascinating subtlety of the mite 's means of infestation has only just become clear , thanks to Dr Nigel Franks and colleagues at the University of Bath , who have been studying infested colonies in observation nests . |
| 8 | It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it . |
| 9 | Unlike thinking , which has been discussed by philosophers and systematised by logicians ever since the Ancient Greeks , problem solving has only recently become an object of study . |
| 10 | Documentary evidence of the economic damage caused by these animals has only recently become available with the institution in Italy of a programme to refund farmers for losses caused by wolves , which are legally protected . |
| 11 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |
| 12 | The immunity enjoyed by clownfish from the venomous tentacles of the anemone has only recently become properly understood . |
| 13 | The aim would ultimately be for a speaker independent system , allowing continuous speech , with a large vocabulary , and this has only recently become a practical possibility as speech recognition methods have shifted to phoneme-based systems , using transitional probabilities and methods such as hidden Markov models to allow sequences of phonemes found in English ( or whatever language is being considered ) and reject others . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that the densely planted tank has only recently become popular . |
| 15 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 16 | Closely related to the question of syntax is another feature of difference that has only recently become clear , as linguists have studied " real " as opposed to idealised language data . |
| 17 | In art history a large part of electronic data processing takes the form of cataloguing works of art , and only a small proportion of research concerns pattern recognition or digitization of images ; in musicology it has only recently become possible to study scores directly input to the computer without the mediation of alphanumeric code . |
| 18 | It is this multivocal quality that distinguishes prose fiction from poetry , as Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian theorist whose work has only recently become well-known in the West , observed : |
| 19 | THE name of Burston has only recently become associated with the Company , but is now a major centre for the South East Region . |
| 20 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 21 | All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments . |
| 22 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals was only formed two years ago and it has not yet become familiar within the business , let alone a household name . |
| 23 | Selective reinforcement , the rewarding of required and approved behaviour , can be a useful technique for teachers , where praise and approval are used for shaping and maintaining desired student performance , especially in the early stages of learning when students need this kind of reassurance and when the work itself has not yet become intrinsically satisfying . |
| 24 | Montgomery Square turned out to be in that part of Pimlico which has not yet become fashionable again , though some of the houses at one end appeared to be newly painted . |
| 25 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 26 | Both possibilities may simply be evidence that the market process has not yet run its course . [ … ] |
| 27 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 28 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 29 | But despite Mick 'n' Keef 'n' more besides , and playing an important role in shaping Britain 's nascent youth culture , it is but recently that Reading has once again become the only place for any self-respecting hep cat to pitch a tent during late August . |
| 30 | The relationship between the state and private education has once again become a focus of political attention . |