Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Something or someone has frightened you off men . |
| 2 | or someone has to take a , a bi a co company has to take a big lot off . |
| 3 | Something or someone has influenced them . |
| 4 | Or somebody has stood up and done their best for their particular community or somebody 's stood up and done their best to Or has moved to somewhere . |
| 5 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 6 | We had the radio on all the time to Radio Teheran , and I heard : " The revolution has won , the bastion or something has fallen " . |
| 7 | It means something has been said or something has happened that has put the subject of the remark in an uncomfortable place . |
| 8 | Where , unless somebody 's fallen asleep or something has bored somebody to death . |
| 9 | In approaching the identification and management of child abuse cases as a journalist my attention would probably be focussed on a few ‘ sensational ’ cases , where something has gone dramatically ‘ wrong ’ and which are subject to an enquiry . |
| 10 | Where these two colonial anemones meet there is a ‘ dead ’ contact zone where one has killed the other . |
| 11 | By and large , planting roses will be in one of two ways : either planting into fresh ground , a new collection perhaps , where they have not grown before , or you may be making a replacement of an old worn-out plant , or where one has failed . |
| 12 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 13 | Long before the director first calls ‘ Action ’ , or anybody has to worry about time , money , the weather or an irritable starlet , the producer , director and writer can sort out the lineaments of the project by focusing on what the film is trying to do , and how it can be made to work . |
| 14 | If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay |
| 15 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 16 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 17 | " Are you sure that nothing has happened since the weekend ? |
| 18 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |
| 19 | While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister . |
| 20 | Yet as you walk these hills you feel that nothing has changed . |
| 21 | They are all happy that nothing has changed . |
| 22 | May I inform him , as he has not answered my question , that the same careers service says that nothing has changed and that the same number of young people will not get YTS places , that many of them are fed up with turning up , only to be told that nothing is available and that the continued recession and closures mean that hundreds of them will have nothing to do ? |
| 23 | And how enervating , how disappointing , how absolutely … crushing to realise that nothing has changed — over the last few decades at least — and that for many women , their primary response is still to be beautiful rather than brainy . |
| 24 | Although no-one has explored the human visual cortex in the fine detail that the anatomists and electrophysiologists have studied the visual cortex of monkeys , there are a number of indirect sources of evidence to support this position . |
| 25 | Although no-one has won the race in successive years , he is happy and confident after good preparation in Brighton . |
| 26 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 27 | As my week-long stay in LA unrolls , I begin to discover that everyone has decided views about Arsenio . |
| 28 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 29 | Anorexics are crying out inside and ca n't believe that no-one has noticed how thin they have become . ’ |
| 30 | The head of the team which carried out the research commented that " we 're amazed that no-one has thought to use carbonyl sulphide in this way before " . |