Example sentences of "has [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This record though , has not at all reduced the importance of output and employment in small units of production .
2 China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively .
3 Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver .
4 The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means .
5 Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person .
6 Last month , after checking with the experts in Moscow , we felt compelled to publish the disappointing news that Ivan the Terrible 's library has not after all been found , whatever Pravda and The Times might say .
7 A few are wondering whether to go at all , whether the festive season has not after all been too tiring , whether a night in slippers in front of the television with a bowl of soup might not be a wiser choice than the doubtful prospect of a crowded room .
8 But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past .
9 For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " .
10 This has not in any way curtailed enthusiasm for the principle that good design is based upon utility among its acolytes in London 's Design Centre or the Boilerhouse project of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , where beauty through ergonomics may still be an avowed aim .
11 In this respect it is interesting to note that the new location of the interposed colon has not in any way altered the inherent motility characteristics of that segment .
12 There has also in many of these cases been an increasing awareness , not just of the local situation , but of the regional and National set-up , and a clearer vision of the more overtly political values , such as what sort of society communities would really like to live in .
13 No he has n't at all .
14 ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down .
15 Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ?
16 Paul Mellon : The book has n't in any way curtailed my privacy because I still have the same life ; I still have people to answer the telephone ; I still have a private airplane and my travel plans are unannounced ; and I lead my own life .
17 He has n't after all said anything false , because he has n't said anything at all : all he 's done is sigh .
18 CD4 has neither of these bonds , which allows an expansion of the intersheet spacing compared to that of CD2 ( Fig.4 c ) .
19 You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . "
20 The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement .
21 London is the great city of art auctions , with New York ; but it has never in this century rivalled Paris or New York as a place for painters and sculptors to live in .
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