Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the trouble is Noel , in the meantime erm the Quakers have fallen apart because the Quakers have filled themselves up with sort of barefooted raw carrot eaters with beads |
| 2 | The current downturn in the housing market has now lasted for three years — four in some parts of the south — and house prices have fallen further than at any time in modern UK history . |
| 3 | Opinions about timetabling motions have altered massively since I took over the chairmanship of the Select Committee on Procedure nearly nine years ago . |
| 4 | Indeed , at the risk of causing offence , it must be said that in response to such a comment I have heard more than one distraught person say , with a puzzled look , ‘ is that a pub around here then ? , |
| 5 | The club draws their membership from both the guide and scout associations in North Hampshire and have taught more than 500 young people basic to advanced life saving skills over the past 21 years . |
| 6 | Recently , however , the violent weather fronts have travelled further than normal and devastated parts of Britain . |
| 7 | Since then they have travelled more than 30,000 miles in Europe and Britain — and made it home only once . |
| 8 | Many examples of good rehabilitation practice have developed simply because medical teams have seen obvious need : cardiac rehabilitation , or the support given to people on long-term dialysis or those who have undergone organ transplants , are a few examples . |
| 9 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |
| 10 | Sister Dannii would often join in and little could parents Carol and Ron have realised just where this extrovert show of singing and dancing would lead to . |
| 11 | Mr Carlson reckons America 's mass merchandisers have realised less than half of the potential of their bar-code systems . |
| 12 | But if you can not afford to leave , might it not be better to put up with the treatment that you have received rather than becoming unemployed ? |
| 13 | Ideas continue to pour in — to date we have received more than 2,000 . |
| 14 | Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect . |
| 15 | On the other we have Forey asserting that ‘ Fossils have clouded rather than clarified our attempts to reconstruct phylogeny . ’ |
| 16 | Grants of up to 50 per cent have attracted more than 70 chemical companies to what the IDA bills as ‘ the most profitable location in the EEC ’ . |
| 17 | Only three studies have included more than 100 patients and to some degree all are biased in their selection of patients . |
| 18 | Traditionally it 's 6,500 inhabitants have enjoyed lower than average unemployment , better than average housing , good schools and medical facilities . |
| 19 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 20 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |
| 21 | In the sixty-two years of the Oscars , Americans have won more than seventy-five percent of them . |
| 22 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 23 | Many English teams playing in European competitions have fared badly when moving on to water-based pitches , still in short supply at home . |
| 24 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 25 | The capitalism of the Chicago meatyards has been replaced by that of the information system ; ‘ … organizations have shed more than one million managers and staff professionals since 1979. … technology will enable senior management to monitor and control large organizations more effectively … |
| 26 | The job losses have come soon after the firm was taken over . |
| 27 | But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ? |
| 28 | The thing about community life is that even setting aside the actual word arts through the way in which community arts workers work with small groups of people who have come together because they 're doing something interesting because it looks something that they want to do , brings groups of people together . |
| 29 | For these reasons I have considered anxiously whether , if the law should be held not to provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel , the need for adequate protection of the reputation of such an authority would be sufficiently met by other remedies . |
| 30 | Mr Segni 's acolytes have collected more than 600,000 signatures in favour of his three referendums . |