Example sentences of "has [vb pp] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Davis has calculated that over 75 per cent of the growth in English exporting over the first half of the eighteenth century depended on either southern Europe or the Americas . |
| 2 | It has calculated that more than 160,000 square miles of Amazon jungle have been destroyed ( an area nearly twice the size of Britain ) . |
| 3 | But within the first interpretation of the term , many authors have emphasized how the increase in the number of legal statutes makes the law impractical to apply in every case , so that Sheehe has calculated that only one offence in every 7,600 is detected ( see Dix and Layzell 1983 : 7 ) . |
| 4 | Mays ( 1983 ) has calculated that about three times as many elderly people from South Asia live with relatives . |
| 5 | Harry has heard that today Aldenham is a school and , although Edwin 's fruit house still stands , its inner furnishings have been cleared out and the place is now used as a boat store . |
| 6 | Texaco , however has claimed that more than 5 million tones of coal have been successfully gasified worldwide , including 1.1 million tons at the company 's own gas power planet in Daggett , California . |
| 7 | Only Sandy Lyle , who was 17 under in the 1983 Swiss Open , has bettered that half-way score on the PGA tour . |
| 8 | Eversley has stressed that too much should not be claimed for such a class . |
| 9 | Latinamerica Press has reported that nearly 200 of the 550 members of Congress and the Senate are owners of or have ties to some media outlet . |
| 10 | The press has reported that more than 1,000 schoolboys have done this . |
| 11 | The availability of cash support has ensured that virtually all local authorities are now aware of the position of the cycle in national transport policy and have their own cycle plan , usually integrated with their overall transportation plan . |
| 12 | The belief has grown that somewhere in the urban jungles , there lurk the dangerous classes who will , if not closely surveyed and controlled , challenge the peace of the streets . |
| 13 | Mr Fowler has conceded that about 100 higher executive officer posts are threatened , but staff fear more jobs could be lost . |
| 14 | Well , Chair , erm , most of my money is under the Resources Management sub-committee , erm , that has been very thoroughly examined , I think the Resources P A G have agreed with me , on the other P A G , and John has written that on to search for saving what I would say , over and above the call of duty . |
| 15 | A report from Japan 's Environment Agency has argued that steadily increasing emissions from the country 's burgeoning transport and consumer sectors are rapidly cancelling out pioneering advances in anti-pollution technology being made by Japanese industry . |
| 16 | This chapter has argued that just as the study of style can not entirely rely on quantitative data , neither can it ultimately do without them . |
| 17 | But Thomas Kuhn has argued that even the concepts and laws become intelligible in practice only as components of a disciplinary matrix which he calls the ‘ paradigm ’ , in which the scientist learns to apply them through concrete instances of problem-solving which serve as models in approaching new puzzles . |
| 18 | Thorndyke ( 1976 ) has argued that sometimes inferences are necessary in order to link successive sentences . |
| 19 | The study has argued that naturally occurring toxins can be more dangerous than man-made pesticides , and has presented scientific data showing that glycoalkaloids , nerve-damaging toxins that occur naturally in potatoes , are present in the same levels in organic crops as in their treated fellows . |
| 20 | * Nelson Mandela , President of the African National Congress , has said that neither the South African government nor people are sufficiently aware of environmental priorities . |
| 21 | The Ministry of Agriculture has said that sooner or later the pound will get an easier ride on the currency markets and that cereal farmers , who since Black Wednesday have almost doubled their projected income , must guard against being caught by sudden changes . |
| 22 | Government has said that now ‘ the case for the English Tourist Board is less clear ’ and that because of the maturity of the tourism industry in England , Government assistance is no longer justified . |
| 23 | The terrorist organisation has said that so far it has simply been ‘ unlucky ’ . |
| 24 | Mr Rifkind , who was in Darlington last night for a meeting of the Conservative Association , has said that only the Conservative party has a proper strategy for improvements to Britain 's roads . |
| 25 | The General Manager of Barclays Bank , Trevor Nicholas , has said that out of his 4,000 systems staff there are just 7 that fall into this category . |
| 26 | However the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that less than one per cent of all tropical timber brought into Britain is managed sustainably . |
| 27 | A survey of Dixons Group employees has revealed that nearly two thirds of them get most of their information about the company from the staff newspaper , Frontline , rather than from notice boards or staff briefings . |
| 28 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |
| 29 | A survey of leading UK corporations conducted for the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has revealed that only 54 per cent give detailed consideration to environmental matters at board of directors level . |
| 30 | Now one crew member , who fears dismissal if named , has revealed that about 30 passengers were admitted onto the flight at the last minute . |