Example sentences of "have [verb] is [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The message the voice has to impart is well-known to the users of this service : ‘ Good morning , ladies and gentlemen inaudible earlier defective train leading to inaudible cancellations inaudible delays to all destinations . ’
2 The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first .
3 In other words what any other writer has written is open territory .
4 Once you have made the appointment and the candidate has accepted is this the end of the recruitment and selection process ?
5 A casual worker who , without good reason , fails to turn up for an assignment which he has accepted is unlikely to be offered assignments in the future .
6 I think that both governments are aware of the proposals that emerged from th my dialogue with Mr Addams , and the process that has emerged , that I have said , and he has said is substantial progress towards lasting peace .
7 Do n't just listen and then go away without first checking that your interpretation of what the person has said is accurate .
8 Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community .
9 While Strathclyde continues to have by far the highest number of killings of any force , the 67.3 per cent increase it has suffered is less than in some other force areas .
10 Another subject directly connected with the way more recent theology has moved is that of philosophy — or , rather , of the various kinds of philosophy which have influenced theologians .
11 John Popham , a parliamentary agent representing 13 local residents who have petitioned against the bill , believes that ‘ residents of Newport should be given the same degree of protection as the government has decided is necessary for property owners in Cardiff ’ .
12 ‘ But what Bill has done is unbelievable .
13 But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece .
14 That 's a beautiful black eye you 've got , Seb — but the one Boz has got is better .
15 Nevertheless , the proliferation that has occurred is serious , since it entails an acquisition of nuclear weaponry by states whose ruling groups may become desperate enough to use it .
16 Another example of the importance of having time to say goodbye to the person who has died is that of a client I was working with who seemed quite unable to talk about his wife 's death and seemed totally unconcerned that she had died tragically .
17 An individual will invent endless reasons why the absence of the person who has died is due to some circumstance that can change .
18 The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor .
19 Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document .
20 ‘ The picture that has emerged is one of Mr Berry continuing to run Blue Arrow as he had always done despite its transformation to a very substantial international public company .
21 The picture which has emerged is one of people of the inner city especially the women — living under curfew .
22 Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary .
23 The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity .
24 Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable .
25 Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping .
26 Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand .
27 Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included .
28 There use to be garden fetes on the lawn and what has happened is terrible .
29 While informal evaluation is important , some formal , but brief , method of monitoring what has happened is crucial .
30 All that has happened is some well organised opposition to the Baldonnell site .
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