Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] has [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 2 | So you have to beware of blind alleys like that ; from personal experience , there are loads of these styles that no-one has ever asked me to play . ’ |
| 3 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 4 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 5 | People are always asking Rosa to go places and talk to schools and she has always tried to say yes . |
| 6 | The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that the lion 's share of the contracts that he has just announced has been placed with defence factories in the north-west of England , including Lancashire . |
| 8 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 9 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 10 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 11 | Julian reached a far smaller audience than any of these later reformers and she has never had a decisive effect on the history of Christianity as they did , but she has acquired a considerable following in our own day . |
| 12 | The line-up was impressive , featuring Pops Staples , literally the founding father of the gospel band the Staple Singers and who has recently embarked on a solo career at the tender age of 77 ! |
| 13 | F1 You are an experienced dinghy sailor who regularly sails with novice crews and who has also spent at least six days living and sailing as crew on a small sailing cruiser . |
| 14 | Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) . |
| 15 | Prof Wilkie , who trained with Scottish Widows and who has also worked for Standard Life , is a partner of R Watson & Partners , the firm of consulting actuaries , and is an honorary visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 16 | Hodkinson 's defeat was only his second loss in 24 contests and he has since vowed to regain his title . |
| 17 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 18 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 19 | He discovers that there really are things that nobody has ever done before . |
| 20 | If the innocent party is the buyer and he has not paid then he may simply refuse to do so and return the goods if he has already received them . |
| 21 | Two comparisons are central here , the first being those incongruous occasions , of which the book is full , when characters that he has previously encountered in quite disparate walks of life , happen to meet . |
| 22 | From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy . |
| 23 | Stable companion Boloardo faces a tougher task in the Listed Magnolia Stakes but he has also come through the winter to the complete satisfaction of his trainer . |
| 24 | The Government has taken steps to improve court procedures but it has steadfastly refused to introduce a legal right to interest . |
| 25 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 26 | All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people . |
| 27 | But he has denied murdering and kidnapping Leeds girl Julie in July 1991 , two charges of demanding £140,000 with menaces from Leeds city police and he has also pleaded not guilty to demanding £200,000 with menaces from British Rail in October 1991 . |
| 28 | In his view , it is fallacious to say that Unix costs less per number of users than mainframes because no-one has ever put a large number of users on Unix boxes . |
| 29 | Diana is said to have been deeply distressed by reports that she has recently suffered another outbreak of bulimia nervosa , the binge-eating disease . |
| 30 | Under s95(4) a police constable can be authorised to take charge of the child and bring him to court and to enter and search any named premises if he has reasonable cause to believe that the child may be found there ( s95(4) ) . |