Example sentences of "have read " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot . |
| 2 | Stavrogin asks the bishop ( in cool reason a preposterous question ) if he has read the Christian Apocalypse . |
| 3 | People who meet her in the course of a briefing or a visit are constantly surprised by her knowledge , the intelligence of her questions , and her retention of what she has read — often on quite scientific subjects . |
| 4 | Anyone who has read about the cultural life of that period knows that Diaghilev 's Russian Ballet created a sensation throughout pre-1914 western Europe . |
| 5 | THE GET-OUT CLAUSE — HOW TO BRING ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING POSSESSION OR THE BOOKER PRIZE TO AN ABRUPT END Ask if anyone has read The Bone People by Keri Hulme . |
| 6 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 7 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 8 | He remembers what happened to other people through all periods of recorded time — through what he has read and been taught . |
| 9 | Dr Schore says the most impressive statements he has read , inspiring him to investigate further the LM potencies , are the following , by Dr. Pierre Schmidt ‘ … but we must bear in mind that Hahnemann never says anything which has not been duly considered and thought out , and that all his words should be weighed with the utmost care . ’ |
| 10 | 16.48 The record of the continuous assessment should cover what the child has read ; the child 's reading strategies and approaches when handling a familiar text , levels of comprehension ; retrieval of information ; and the child 's reading tastes and preferences . |
| 11 | Anyone who has read about ( or lived through ) the patterns of obsession with cold irresponsible men which Robin Norwood charted in her book Women Who Love Too Much will recognise this syndrome . |
| 12 | Ask who has read them and offer congratulations . |
| 13 | As anyone knows who has read the literature of management information systems , office automation , and document-based systems , we are bombarded by data which if valid ( and accepted by the profession ) would have a profound effect on the design of information systems . |
| 14 | Dr Gale has read carefully his primary sources and a surprising number of the secondary ones , and his thesis is well made out . |
| 15 | Nowadays , nobility is on the side of those who used to be called Redmen , hardly surprising to anyone who has read any of the dreadful history of the spread of Europeans across the West . |
| 16 | Since then I have sampled as many types of floatplane as possible ; but of all the seaplanes I have flown my favourite by far is the de Havilland ( Canada ) Beaver — familiar to anyone who has read Gavin Lyall 's excellent flying thriller The Most Dangerous Game . |
| 17 | Once you have knitted one row the carriage has read the positions of the point cams once again , so the pattern will be correct on subsequent rows . |
| 18 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 19 | The fact that a practitioner has a copy of the Blue Book ( which contains the Institute 's regulations and guidance notes on investment business ) on his shelf does not necessarily mean that he has read and understood it , and in some firms the Institute 's Investment Business Gazettes ( which announce changes to regulations and other requirements , and provide a general round-up of developments likely to affect authorised firms ) are filed away unread if they are kept at all . |
| 20 | Initially the examiner , who has read a file detailing the main points of the complaint , but inevitably does not have the full story ( hence the reason for the enquiry ) , turns up unannounced at the company 's premises ( which are not always easy to find ) and has to get past well-meaning but defensive receptionists and secretaries without revealing the purpose of the visit . |
| 21 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |
| 22 | ‘ I doubt there is a single child in the entire school who has read that book , and here you are , an unhatched shrimp sitting in the lowest form there is , trying to tell me a whopping great lie like that ! |
| 23 | Shakira , 44 , has read her husband 's book as the pages came off the press . |
| 24 | But the Mirror has read a transcript of the 2year-old recording and found much of it to be inconsequential gossip . |
| 25 | Each member of EMF has read and understood Oscar Wilde 's The Picture Of Dorian Grey — truly understood it . |
| 26 | Anyone who has read The Hound of the Baskervilles will know what fate is in store for those who wander off into a mire ! |
| 27 | The person signing the booking form confirms that he/she has the authority of all other persons mentioned on that form to make the booking on their behalf and that he/she has read and accepted the Consumer Protection Plan and the information contained in this brochure . |
| 28 | Anyone who has read SMALLHOLDER over the last few years will know I love the Autumn . |
| 29 | Once he has read this book , he will be put off careless speculation for life . |
| 30 | We can detect how much further the second boy has gone in overall grasp and in sticking to his convictions about what he has read — and in his desire to bring his own generalisations about sport into the dialogue . |