Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) . |
| 2 | And because of that it has got gravitation and fields which is n't as big as the earth , it 's only about one sixth as big as the earth . |
| 3 | I shall mar all of that he has made and foraged . |
| 4 | Fortunately , there is another part of Dorset which Hardy was particularly fond of and which has nothing to attract visitors en masse . |
| 5 | The question of whether someone has suffered special damage or not depends on the facts of the particular case , and so is very much in the discretion of the court . |
| 6 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 7 | Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected . |
| 8 | The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected . |
| 9 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 10 | For older women , there is a question of whether it has any relevance at all . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not a question of whether she has any boyfriend , more a case of which boyfriend she 'll be with . |
| 12 | This meant that the scope for comparing establishment behaviour over time , which would provide some indication of whether there has been any increase in the use of temporary workers [ see Chapter 7 ] , was rather limited . |
| 13 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 14 | Where the exclusion clause is embodied in a signed contract , the general rule is that the signatory is bound by the contents of the document regardless of whether he has read or understood them ( L " Estrange v Graucob Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 394 ) in the absence of the plea of non est factum ( Saunders v Anglia Building Society [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 15 | The good news is that we are still going to see something of as he has agreed to act as a consultant for us . |
| 16 | Then we simply can not carry on our lives as if nothing has happened . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The Tories have slashed the value of their houses — but still expect them to pay the council tax as if nothing has happened . |
| 18 | ‘ In some areas it is as if nothing has changed , and in other areas there are some quite bizarre decisions . ’ |
| 19 | He takes his hand off as if nothing has happened , waits for my answer and drives into the night on my bidding . |
| 20 | The couple act as if nothing has happened when Ferdinand agrees to stay . |
| 21 | Mr Major looks set to soldier on as if nothing has happened , trusting that the improvement in the economy will restore his own , and his party 's , sagging popularity . |
| 22 | But all I can say is we people who see us I mean it 's not as if everybody has to have favours with their wedding , it 's still a fairly new thing . |
| 23 | ‘ And at times it has almost seemed as if everyone has had something to say about me , and it has often been those people who have never read The Satanic Verses who have had the most to say . |
| 24 | ‘ It sounds as if something has died . ’ |
| 25 | There are various other methods of effecting a de-merger , but the advantage of the statutory basis under s213 TA 1988 is that it treats the transaction as if there has been no distribution by the company and no liability to income tax or capital gains tax on the part of the recipient shareholders . |
| 26 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 27 | She has recently left home , and whenever they talk about her my parents ' voices are disapproving , as if she has gone off the rails in some way which they do n't specify . |
| 28 | This involves stimulating a female cat that is on heat with a glass rod , so that her body is fooled into reacting as if she has been mated by a tom-cat . |
| 29 | ‘ It looks at the moment as if she has fallen to her death , ’ a spokesman told TODAY . |
| 30 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |