Example sentences of "have done [adv] [conj] " 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 | If the Secretary of State regards protecting the British coal industry and , therefore , the nation from the fluctuation in world prices as rigging the market , will he explain why he has done exactly that by rigging the market for nuclear electricity in this country ? |
| 3 | And he has done well but then runs into trouble in the considerable shape of Ormanroyd who knocks it long . |
| 4 | Oscar Orbos has done well as Mrs Aquino 's aide , but at 40 may be too young for the big job . |
| 5 | It 's unheard of for a two-year-old to race against older horses in America , but my horse has done well and I hope more will follow us over . |
| 6 | It has done well and civilianised 73 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He limps now , and has done ever since I can remember . |
| 10 | One of you dies , the remaining one still owns all the property cos he or she always has done so and therefore it belongs to that person . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nothing has done more than the cruise missiles to divide the peoples of the Atlantic alliance . |
| 17 | Pauline Bishop has done more than her fair share of globe-trotting . |
| 18 | ROBERT JONES has done more than enough to eclipse the new Moon that is rising in Welsh rugby . |
| 19 | There are good grounds for suggesting that general practice in Britain has done more than merely survive . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | William Cobbett , the nineteenth-century essayist , perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has done more than most to stimulate thought on matters of faith among ordinary people . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In this case the contract is avoided as soon as the original owner has done all that he reasonably can . |
| 27 | The practice of medicine is carrying on the same way as it has done before but we 're addressing issues like quality and standards and timing and waiting lists in a way we have n't done before . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |