Example sentences of "have do [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 2 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 3 | To this day it is the address to which Diana has her private mail directed and has done ever since she suspected Fergie was visiting the Buckingham Palace post room in order to tell Prince Charles who was writing confidential letters to his wife . |
| 4 | My uncle worships alone these days , and has done ever since his son left home to become a devout Capitalist ( neither his wife nor his daughter had ever bothered with my Uncle 's unique brand of condemnationist Christianity ; as a rule , the McHoan women , whether so by blood or marriage , have displayed a marked reluctance to take their men-folk 's passions seriously , at least outside the bedroom ) . |
| 5 | He limps now , and has done ever since I can remember . |
| 6 | TEN years of Conservative government has produced a poor record on environmental issues , but Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ conversion ’ in the past year has meant she has done more than any other world leader to push the issue to the top of the political , business , and economic agenda , says a Friends of the Earth report . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher 's green ‘ conversion ’ has meant she has done more than any other world leader to push the environment to the top of the political , business , and economic agenda , say Friends of the Earth . |
| 8 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 9 | One reason why ants are so sophisticated is because of their complex language of chemical communication , which Dr Wilson has done more than anyone to elucidate . |
| 10 | It amounts to a lack of faith in a God who has done more than they could have dreamed of to demonstrate his own faithfulness . |
| 11 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 12 | Pauline Bishop has done more than her fair share of globe-trotting . |
| 13 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 14 | There are good grounds for suggesting that general practice in Britain has done more than merely survive . |
| 15 | The one event that has done more than any other to damage the reputation of Athenian democracy is , of course , the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC for impiety and corrupting the young . |
| 16 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 17 | The irony is that Dr Oliver has done more than most to document the real reasons why conductive education is attractive to parents from Britain and many other Western countries . |
| 18 | I hope that the Party can use Marxism Today as its ‘ front door ’ , and as a major interface with the wider movement : MT has done more than anything else to build up the prestige of the CP , and that contribution should never be forgotten . |
| 19 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 20 | JE Nicholson ( Points of View , 10 February ) has done more than 5,000 car journeys over the Forth Road Bridge into Edinburgh , only to be habitually overtaken by a man on a tricycle , and has concluded that a new road bridge is not the answer . |
| 21 | Warwickshire have a number of dual-purpose players and no-one has done better than Dermot Reeve , with 2,525 runs and 73 wickets in the last two championship seasons . |
| 22 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 23 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 24 | " Nobody could have done more than you , " I said . |
| 25 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 26 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 27 | So what would a a riveter have done then once they were once their job was completed they were put on the the on the street basically ? |
| 28 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 29 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 30 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |