Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is clear that something has happened in Lothian to diminish injecting prevalence among clinic attenders . |
| 2 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 3 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 4 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 5 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 6 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 7 | It is clear that he has a well-defined professional identity and authenticity which have their roots in his strict adherence to his own therapeutic tradition ( ayuverdic medicine ) , in contrast to the ‘ flexibility ’ and eclecticism of many therapists in the West . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 9 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will make it clear that he has accepted that point . |
| 10 | It is quite clear that he has failed to read not only the Bill and the report of the Committee 's proceedings but his own party 's policy document ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 11 | But it is clear that she has no diplomatic status in the United Kingdom and has no recognition from Her Majesty 's Government as a representative of the Republic of Somalia in this country . |
| 12 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 13 | Since then the firm has managed to bring the amount of zinc in the effluent down to about 20 p.p.m. , but the agency has made it clear that it has to go below that . |
| 14 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 15 | The Commission has made it clear that it has no proposals for guide prices on coal contracts or for Community subsidies for coal production . |
| 16 | The Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) has made clear that it has yet to develop a conservation policy and will continue to give awards for plants collected in the wild . |
| 17 | We are all very saddened that she has died . |
| 18 | He says drug corruption is now so prevalent that it has tainted the assembly , the courts , and press and television . |
| 19 | This perspective is so prevalent that it has spread far beyond medical , health and welfare agencies to influence fundamentally most people 's approaches to Disabled people . |
| 20 | The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands . |
| 21 | Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity . |
| 22 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 23 | It is doubtful that she has transformed the role of the Prime Minister in British politics . |
| 24 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 25 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 26 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 27 | We saw earlier that the move to greater inequality in income had been so marked that it has triggered off a widening of other class differences ( detailed in Part I ) . |
| 28 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 29 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 30 | Yes it has , and as my mind races back over nearly four decades I can not help but smile , how is it possible that everything has changed so much ? |