Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission solicited proposals from North American museums and received three positive responses : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York reaffirmed interest in becoming a full collaborator ( it was the Guggenheim 's current director , Thomas Krens , who conceived of MASSMoCA in the mid-1980s while director of the nearby Williams College Art Museum ; he has since dissociated himself to avoid conflict of interest ) ; the ICA Boston proposed developing shared programs , mainly exhibitions ; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto offered to place a single large installation on long-term loan . |
| 2 | She has since declared herself bankrupt and has not paid anything towards damages or Dr Smith 's costs . |
| 3 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 4 | Miss Dors , who has since shown herself to be a capable character actress , remembers her bubble-bathing days as a cushion for male dreams with amused tolerance : |
| 5 | The German occupation proved useful in one respect , however : it spurred the formation of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne ( CIVC ) , an organisation which has since established itself as the most successful of its type in France . |
| 6 | It has continued to grow and expand and has since established itself as a permanent base for experimentation with education in health based on Primary Health Care principles . |
| 7 | Since then , Rolls-Royce Motors , the new public company formed two years later from the ashes of the parent group , has successfully re-established itself in its own rarefied niche at the top of the world 's luxury car market . |
| 8 | The government of the GDR has expressly associated itself with this statement … |
| 9 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 10 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 11 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 12 | The vague beige word that has naturally attached itself to Mr Major is ‘ nice ’ . |
| 13 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 14 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 15 | Rugby has long prided itself on its image as a players ' game and any ‘ play to entertain ’ push could only accelerate the drift towards professionalism . |
| 16 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 17 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |
| 18 | This points the way to the culturalist approach to which Hirsch has elsewhere shown himself sympathetic . |
| 19 | Ollero asserts that TransTools has not involved itself in the price war . |
| 20 | Part IV : income from property of which the settlor has not divested himself absolutely |
| 21 | The touch judge is allowed to inform the referee of any act of foul play that the referee has or has not seen himself . |
| 22 | Sir Bernard 's many friends will fear he has not done himself justice . |
| 23 | The one to feel it most is Wright , and Taylor said : ‘ He probably feels he has not done himself justice when he 's played . |
| 24 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 25 | Other opposition has been ad hoc and in some areas , such as Inishturk , has not formalized itself into an organization . |
| 26 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 27 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 28 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 29 | Satisfied with attending to the symptoms of the economy 's problems , the government has not applied itself to tackling some of their causes . |
| 30 | ( Chris Haskins , of Northern Foods , points out that Britain has not fed itself since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 . ) |