Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 If they have since discovered that this contact can be fulfilling and life-enhancing — and this is certainly not always the case — it is because they have benefited from the broader range of experiences which this contact has offered .
2 The guitar was described as a 1967 Fender Strat but I have since discovered that it was made in 1974 and that I therefore paid about £250 over the asking price .
3 I have since discovered that this colour is not produced naturally , but by injecting the fish with dyes .
4 I have since discovered that that figure is not 10 million tonnes but 17 million tonnes .
5 Alar withdrew from the market but subsequent studies in Britain and America have since concluded that the cancer risk was negligible .
6 The acting returning officer for St Ives says that , to start with , most of the complaints about proxy voting came from the residents of old people 's homes , but that other people have since said that they too were denied a vote .
7 I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals .
8 I have since heard that many people thought this to be unfair and an additional class has been effected for next year called the professional amateur class .
9 The Wilson Committee found the case unproven but the Labour Party and the trade union movement have since suggested that tax concessions available to pension funds should be made conditional upon the repatriation of some of their overseas investment .
10 Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents .
11 By many similar experiments , I have since proved that a free communication of the limpid fluid , which the canal contains , is kept up between the brain and the whole extent of spinal marrow .
12 I have since learnt that this kind of treatment is known as the ‘ water torture ’ in Spanish prisons .
13 I did n't know that kind of thing existed , but I have since learnt that there is quite a demand for them .
14 The 35-year-old , who has collected 13 major trophies with the Anfield club , said : ‘ I have slowly realised that I am not in Liverpool 's plans for the future . ’
15 Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives .
16 Schools , however , and schoolteachers have instinctively felt that they were different , not unique , and have needed their own set of theories and precepts . "
17 Zoologists today have widely accepted that Jane Goodall 's field research , apart from its own merits , has supplanted much observation of captive animals , showing that their behaviour is often disturbed and even psychotic .
18 Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference .
19 As the House knows , we have long believed that the Community should be open to European countries who want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership .
20 Students of human memory have long recognized that performance on a retrieval task tends to be superior when the test context is similar to that experienced during initial training .
21 Diesel engine manufacturers have long maintained that these are harmless , but recently they have been found to contain polyaromatich hydrocarbons ( PAH ) , which can cause cancer when breathed deeply .
22 The courts have long insisted that any pecuniary interest disqualifies the decision-maker be he high or low .
23 Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous .
24 Is my right Hon. Friend aware that those of us who have an interest in these matters have long felt that things in tourism are done rather better in Wales than in England ?
25 We have long argued that the Post Office scheme is detrimental to the survival of townland names .
26 Ramblers have long argued that the army 's needs should be subjected to independent scrutiny , adding the independent National Parks Review panel had agree with the group .
27 Standard-setters have long realised that there is a trade-off between objectivity and relevance in accounting information , and on the face of it , unfudgeability is simply a pejorative term for objectivity .
28 WWF and its mature colleagues in the conservation world have long realised that many of the priority issues with which we are all currently concerned ( rain forest destruction , coastal marine pollution , over-exploitation , loss of diversity ) are issues which have to be tackled in parallel with those of human population increase , extreme poverty , low food production levels , lack of marketable resources and , in a few cases , uncaring , self-centred governments .
29 Nevertheless , the courts have long recognised that , whatever may be the theoretical position , there are far-reaching limitations in principle on the exercise of that jurisdiction .
30 Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears .
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