Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [pron] has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In L " Estrange v Graucob ( [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) Scrutton LJ said that " When a document containing contractual terms is signed then , in the absence of fraud or , I will add , misrepresentation , the party signing it is bound , and it is wholly immaterial whether he has read the document or not . " |
| 2 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 3 | Many would also say that real life is only possible when one has accepted the finiteness of life on earth as something that God uses to draw people into a closer union with himself . |
| 4 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 5 | It is much less easy when one has to explain the simultaneous extinction of several unrelated groups , ranging from ammonites to pterodactyls , living in different habitats at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 6 | She is never entirely comfortable until she has surveyed those before her , put them mentally in their places and seen herself rise to the top in doing so . |
| 7 | The word commitment is extremely important because whatever has happened , and goodness knows what will happen in politics , commitment to the Labour Party and loyalty to the Council will remain . |
| 8 | Birmingham is less attractive because it has remained the commercial centre of the Midlands . |
| 9 | The new law says a bank is not liable if it has accepted the cheque ‘ in good faith and without negligence ’ . |
| 10 | If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay |
| 11 | He is still guilty because he has violated God 's law . |
| 12 | I can not prevent him going forth , but am ever relieved when he has returned . |
| 13 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 14 | ‘ But I find it totally incomprehensible if someone has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for six years to want to resign over a personality — with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 15 | While this makes it easier for the acoustic-phonetic component to guarantee the inclusion of the target phoneme , the task of the syntax/semantic component is made considerably more difficult since it has to choose from many more word candidates . |
| 16 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 17 | But is this conclusion as inevitable as it has come to seem ? |
| 18 | ‘ Surely , a woman as beautiful as you has had proposals . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 20 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 21 | But they they , that was n't accurate because it has to go up , to have fifteen kilometres a second . |
| 22 | It seems unlikely that , all other things being equal , two students will find an item equally difficult when one has studied the topic that the item tests and the other has not . |
| 23 | Rather , it is claimed that a culture is intellectually superior because it has acquired that technology . |
| 24 | Jasper 's sometimes funny when he has had a disappointment . " |
| 25 | Considerations concerning syntactic and semantic structure are not unconnected with those about the beliefs and intentions involved in linguistic communication — beliefs and intentions which McDowell suggests are quite secondary once one has accepted that communication in general ( from simple instinctive types through to natural language ) has first and foremost to do with the transfer of information , or the instilling of knowledge . |
| 26 | It will make the smallest of sounds and be virtually undetectable until he has escaped . ’ |
| 27 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 28 | The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 29 | ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 30 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |