Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 2 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 3 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 4 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 5 | L = teacher who has taught lots of lessons with the unit . |
| 6 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 7 | But no one has heard anything of him since the collapse of the northern empire . ’ |
| 8 | But the trouble is that no one has heard anything from him even now that the year is over . ’ |
| 9 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 10 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 11 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 12 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 13 | On the contrary , however , he has earned nothing but their displeasure . |
| 14 | He noted a marked increase in exhibitions devoted to modern decorative arts : in 1995 the Art Institute of Chicago , for example , will be presenting a show on twentieth-century British silversmiths whilst the current series of design exhibitions at the Bauhaus Archive has included one on metalwork . |
| 15 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 16 | The sweater has enjoyed something of a renaissance since the 1980s . |
| 17 | It 's no secret that Mansell has more than just a soft spot for Frank Williams , and indeed has enjoyed lots of success at Williams in the past . |
| 18 | Handfuls of froth simply mean that the manufacturer has added lots of foaming agents . |
| 19 | I personally find it strange that there is still a stampede to buy any dog that has won anything in Germany . |
| 20 | Church of Scotland deaconess Lynda Wright has met plenty of Shirley Valentines in her time . |
| 21 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 22 | For a city that has seen plenty of violence , Colombo was curiously calm after Mr Premadasa 's death . |
| 23 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 24 | Since then , they estimate that he has seen something in the region of 70 doctors . |
| 25 | If a court has sentenced somebody to prison for an excessive length of time , there is already a sentencing council — the Court of Appeal , which can reduce the sentence . |
| 26 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 28 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 29 | We can conclude that the audit has said nothing about economy , efficiency or effectiveness . |
| 30 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |