Example sentences of "has just [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete Harvey has just broken the European endurance record … a flight of 300 kilometres … |
| 2 | New Zealand television has just announced the impending demise of Punch . |
| 3 | This was true even before the current wave of feminism ( Virginia Woolf in 1929 and Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 both marvelled at the huge volume of material on the subject ) ; contemporary feminism has just made the political implications easier to see . |
| 4 | It 's already won international acclaim with a Grand Prix for the Best European short film … and has just clinched the prestigious Golden Gate award in the United States . |
| 5 | Having more than his fair half-pennyworth is POGUES supergroupie MATT DILLON , who , we gather , has just directed the new video for DINOSAUR JR . |
| 6 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 7 | Channi , Southall-based lead singer of Bhangra band Alaap , has just finished the musical soundtrack for film star Feroz Khan 's latest blockbuster , Yalgaar ( Attack ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I 've enjoyed myself more after the housewife 's choice has just won the Grand National . ’ |
| 9 | Levi has just won the Canadian Open at the Glen Abbey Golf Club near Toronto last September , the final win of his magnificent season . |
| 10 | Diana Campell , originator of special trimaran dinghy for disabled sailors , has just launched the updated Challenger II at Cowes . |
| 11 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 12 | It has just taken the unusual step of calling home its ambassador to Guatemala ‘ for consultations ’ . |
| 13 | Bowled over by their demo , Weatherall offered his remixing services and has just put the finishing touches to their delicious debut LP ‘ Breakdown ’ . |
| 14 | It has just considered the Annual Report which confirmed that between April 1991 and October 1992 there had been an increase of 10% in the number of single rooms in Adult Residential Homes throughout Lothian . |