Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 2 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 3 | Pastor Gunn and his fellow associates have given so much to us through their encouragement of truly living the Scriptures . |
| 4 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 5 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 6 | Shares in Avon Rubber have fallen sharply this year as a result of the weak demand for winter tyres and rights issue call to finance the move into US motor components . |
| 7 | Things have altered so much now . |
| 8 | We have heard yet another consistently anti-European Labour Member . |
| 9 | ( I have heard too many tales of immigrants ’ early days — their second state worse than their first . ) |
| 10 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 11 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 12 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 13 | So it 's no wonder that we have heard very little about dental dams . |
| 14 | Workmen have lopped off more branches in an effort to save the tree , visited by thousands of fans each year on the anniversary of Bolan 's death . |
| 15 | Some local authorities have designated very few conservation areas . |
| 16 | But over the years , his sales techniques have irritated as much as they have impressed , and he has been periodically banned from Celtic Park , Tynecastle and Fir Park . |
| 17 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 18 | So we have gathered here this evening to spend a last evening telling jokes with our friend , who is unfettered by responsibilities . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project . |
| 20 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 21 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 22 | Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other . |
| 23 | Whatever Conservative Members may believe , I can assure them that there is a climate of fear among offshore workers who believe — rightly or wrongly , but I think rightly — that many employees are subject to discrimination because companies or contractors consider that they have placed too much emphasis on safety matters . |
| 24 | ‘ The authorities responsible have developed so much uncertainty in themselves that they can not even show tolerance and rationality in dealing with our children , ’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) said . |
| 25 | Recognising that feminist film theory , criticism and film-making have developed very much in reciprocal relation to each other , I shall try to sketch the major areas of interest and controversy in the past twenty years in Britain and America . |
| 26 | But in Stoke Mandeville 's case GPs have referred too many patients , effectively presenting the health authorities with an additional bill they ca n't pay . |
| 27 | This has been the subject of endless commentary within the economics profession since these sorts of trends have typified nearly all industrial and service sectors of capitalist economies ( and some socialist ones , it might be added ) . |
| 28 | He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times . |
| 29 | Mr. Walker : As I have pointed out many times to the Hon. Gentleman , the toll on the Seven bridge was imposed during the period of a Labour Government . |
| 30 | I was excited to see from their fine centre spread advert ( 24 March , p 820 ) that McDonnell Douglas have realised how much can be learnt from Nature about improving everyday mechanisms like fighter aircraft undercarriages . |