Example sentences of "[conj] has " in BNC.

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31 So far the process of grief that has been outlined is how people might react to the loss of someone they love , whether that person has died or has gone out of their life for good .
32 So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died .
33 Have they provided prize-fights , or has it all been like all-in wrestling , where the heaves and grunts and assaults have seemed stagey and contrived ?
34 Or has its value genuinely undergone a sea-change ?
35 There are a number of examples of effective group and cooperative production organisations in rural Europe , but they are not well known , and are often isolated experiments whose replication has not been attempted or has failed .
36 investment ) , tourism and weaving underpin the fragile economy which is or has been augmented by local centres of enterprise such as the oil platform fabrication yard at Arnish near Stornoway ( now closed ) , the rocket-range support base at Ballavanich , the military developments at Stornoway airfield and scattered small scale initiatives such as fish processing and , notably , salmon farming in sheltered bays and sea lochs .
37 Have the flora and vegetation always been as species-poor as today , or has this poverty developed over thousands of years during the post-glacial as a result of habitat loss , soil deterioration , or land-use change ?
38 It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point .
39 Certainly , those experiments in which the occurrence of an overt component of the OR has been monitored have demonstrated that the response that has been habituated during pre-exposure tends to reappear when the CS-US pairings are begun .
40 An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough .
41 This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again .
42 Everyone I know at home is either here , or has been here .
43 Adopt a family whose breadwinner is a political prisoner or has been executed .
44 To provide a record of the building , its construction and materials , and whether it is sound , dry and weathertight or has major structural defects .
45 The freeholder of the land has the right of entry whether the occupant of the flat is renting by the week or has a 99-year lease .
46 Are the ridge tiles properly pointed , or has the mortar fallen out ?
47 What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ?
48 Even in these days of permissiveness , it may be that the one party has not had , or has been denied , the opportunity of discovering the anatomical characteristics of the other .
49 Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient .
50 Even with a common core curriculum , there will be enormous and perfectly explicable differences between children 's knowledge and abilities at these ages ( as anyone who has had more than one child of his own , or has taught a class of children will know ) .
51 Or has this issue never previously been on the Church 's agenda because the majority of women did not — until our century — have the education , the freedom or the position in society to enable them to take a priestly role ?
52 More recently , interest revived when barbel became more widely distributed and anglers began to throw aside the class barriers and choose a quarry on its own merits rather than choose a fish by virtue of the fact that is has , or has not , an adipose fin .
53 ‘ Has Lord Thing a my bob — I forget the animal 's name — refused him — or has Cruickshanks forgotten me ? ’
54 If you think about and watch the settings of your child 's behaviour , it may be that he or she behaves in a non-compliant way , or has a tantrum on some occasions but not others ; that is , some situations seem to act as cues for him or her to behave in a particular way .
55 Up to a quarter of the population has either been displaced or has left the country since 1980 .
56 Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) .
57 As has been indicated for the parish church , it will be prudent to determine if a descriptive booklet is , or has ever been , available .
58 A remedy commonly needed in measles , especially if the rash has not come out fully or has disappeared again and they become more ill .
59 Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ?
60 an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
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