Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] has [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case . |
| 2 | Re-definition on such lines could without a statute be effected by the House of Lords , which alone has sufficient authority to attempt the task , and would not involve much disturbance of decided cases ; there are certainly many obiter dicta at all levels to be sacrificed , but that would be a most desirable result . |
| 3 | In saying that , Clinton is climbing aboard a bandwagon which already has considerable momentum in the US . |
| 4 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 5 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 6 | A homogeneously broadened system saturates uniformly in frequency , so that the oscillation frequency , which clearly has maximum gain at threshold , retains its primacy as the laser saturates , preventing other frequencies from reaching threshold ( providing it is spatially uniform : in actual lasers higher-order transverse and adjacent longitudinal modes appear because they have different spatial structures from the dominant mode ) . |
| 7 | Standard English itself is usually analysed by linguists as a dialect of English which clearly has social prestige . |
| 8 | System Soft , which also has exclusive agreement to distribute products from Adobe Systems Inc , Macromind/Paracomp Inc and Symantec Corp , ran into trouble last year at the start of the Japanese economy downturn , reportedly because of the interest burden on borrowings it had made to construct its own building , and in May 1992 another major software distributor , Katena Ltd , came to the rescue and bought a 50% stake . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the suggestion that structuralism and poststructuralism have denied history is a persuasive one which now has wide currency . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which currently has insignificant activity in the international banking market , is tying up with Management Technologies Inc , a small 12-year-old $4m-a-year New York firm , to heighten its participation . |
| 11 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 12 | People can come to expect too much of someone who suddenly has great success . |
| 13 | Besides , she only has one tennis racket to her name . |
| 14 | ‘ She only has one feeling — pride . |
| 15 | But her boy , who already has one success in the can , would settle for a shiny new toy . |
| 16 | Coopers & Lybrand 's Emma Goodrick , who already has five Institute prizes and one Worshipful Company award to her name ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June 1990 , p 18 , June 1991 , p 16 and June 1992 , p 15 ) , has joined four other accountants to scoop the top six awards in this year 's Institute of Taxation exams . |
| 17 | Their Australian professional Jamie Stewart , who already has 18 league wickets , will get pace and bounce to help his left arm orthodox spin and , if necessary skipper Tony Bell can call on young leg spinner , Paul Davison . |
| 18 | This assumes she still has that amount of money . |
| 19 | Her ties will remain strong as she still has many family connections . |
| 20 | She still has another year of injections and tablets before she 's fully recovered . |
| 21 | She is an eagle of a special kind , strong and powerful and she still has enough power to put her strength in my wings . |
| 22 | She still has immense affection for the pioneering early rockers , who were also from southern states like Mississippi , Texas and Louisiana . |
| 23 | For example , a supervisor whose principal job is to plan tomorrow 's production assignments and next week 's work schedule but who also has ongoing responsibility for uninterrupted production supplies for the month ahead has a responsibility time span of one month . |
| 24 | Mrs X , who also has other employment , is company secretary . |
| 25 | I do n't really know her breeding , but she clearly has some Arab in her and has a soft thin coat . |
| 26 | In the south , rebels from another group are pressing the government of President Siad Barre , who now has little authority beyond the capital . |
| 27 | She now has clean water from a pump that Mohali her health advisor , helped the village to organise and build . |
| 28 | She now has another job but can not completely forget her experiences . |
| 29 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 30 | The sufferer 's disease gets back into " the driving seat " and he or she comes to believe that life can be managed alone and that is questionable , despite all previous evidence , whether he or she truly has addictive disease after all . |