Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 2 | Chris Robinson 's vocal has developed just the right pitch to keep you straining to hear his every word , the kind of kick-ass , hell-for-leather growl that sounds great and is heightened by the honey sweet gospelly chorus of backing singers Barbara Richardson and Taj . |
| 3 | As the technique has developed so the range of applications in clinical practice has expanded . |
| 4 | For hundreds of years this innocent diversion has fascinated even the most learned of men . |
| 5 | The 1988 Education Reform Act and earlier legislation has altered entirely the political context in which history teaching operates . |
| 6 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 7 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 8 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 9 | As the cost of technology has fallen so the factors have been able to offer clients links into their databases . |
| 10 | The UK Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) has highlighted both the need to maintain safety standards in the face of competing pressures and the importance of organisational factors in preventing accidents inside and outside the nuclear industry . |
| 11 | Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley . |
| 12 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
| 13 | The president of Edison , New Jersey-based Verbex Voice Systems Inc has skedaddled so the board has picked chief operating officer Larry Dooling , former USL chief , to replace him . |
| 14 | Since then , this committee has organised both the sing and the musical festival . |
| 15 | Since moving to Australia in 1983 he has enjoyed both the informal Australian approach to life and the outlook of writers like Stoddart and Richard Cashman : ‘ They are much more challenging in their approach , less constrained by conventions , ’ he says . |
| 16 | A good deal of language teaching has followed a bottom-up approach , in that it has considered only the formal language system , often in isolated sentences , without demonstrating or developing the way that system operates in context . |
| 17 | Couples had the lowest stroke average of 1991 ( 69.52 ) and this year has won both the Los Angeles and Bay Hill tournaments , been second twice , third once , sixth , 13th , 16th and 25th . |
| 18 | Only one horse , Mandarin , has won both the Gold Cup and the ‘ Grand Steep ’ as it is affectionately known . |
| 19 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 20 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 21 | They argue that as the industrial state has grown so the ‘ contradictions of capitalism ’ have increased . |
| 22 | Yet the capricious nature of golf has seen even the mighty Ballesteros humbled in the Championship . |
| 23 | In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit |
| 24 | As the prevalence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has risen so the risk of exposure to HIV-1 with each unsafe sexual encounter will have increased . |
| 25 | Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools . |
| 26 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 27 | After Peter explains the equal spiritual standing of the non-Jewish Christians , this is the response : ‘ When they heard this , they had no further objections and praised God saying , ‘ So then , God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life ’ ' ( Acts 11:18 ) . |
| 28 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 29 | The latest row , over which should own the Crimea-based Black Sea fleet , has revealed both the strength of irredentist feeling in Moscow and the depth of animosity in Kiev towards the northern neighbour . |
| 30 | As the sells his beers to the free trade and to national brewers ' pubs he has noticed both the swingeing price increases imposed by the brewing giants and the reaction among their tenants . |