Example sentences of "[noun] be [conj] [pron] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know what the reasons are because there has been nothing said to me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 3 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 4 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 5 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 6 | ‘ The problem with Andy is that he has played so rarely we have yet to get him into our pattern of play . |
| 7 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 8 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 9 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 10 | The central characteristic of social action is that it has meaning for the people who are involved in it . |
| 11 | The point about an adult citizen is that he has these rights , privileges , duties and responsibilities whether or not he wants them . |
| 12 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 13 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 14 | A feature of most high density areas is that there has been a long-term decline in population and density since before the Second World War ( Craig 1986 ) . |
| 15 | However , the most significant objection to the Act is that it has extended the scope of the common law exemption so that husbands are not criminally liable for acts of buggery or indecent assault perpetrated against their wives , save in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above . |
| 16 | The proposal that Hartle and I made can be paraphrased as : The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . |
| 17 | One could say : " The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . " |
| 18 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 19 | The motion before such a committee is that it has considered an instrument , so that the only means of protest is to vote against the motion — in effect , deny doing what has been done ! |
| 20 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 21 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 22 | A complaint made by radical criminology against its conservative counterpart is that it has ignored upper-world crime : fraud , corporate crime and white-collar crime . |
| 23 | A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics . |
| 24 | The problem with trying to reduce particulates is that it has a trade-off in higher nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) produced , which are frowned upon in environmental legislation in the U.S. and EC . |
| 25 | ‘ The only different thing about Maisie at the moment is that she has to go to hospital to have treatment . |
| 26 | The upshot is that there has indeed been a battle of ideas — and the Conservatives have won it . |
| 27 | His other concession to fame is that he has turned one room of his house in Oswestry into his office where his sister-in-law is his full-time secretary , though she also helps Woosnam 's wife , Glyndreth , with their young family . |
| 28 | The conclusion is that something has got to give if the UPF is to generate growth , reduce unemployment and win the presidential elections in 1995 . |
| 29 | Its main conclusion is that there has been no measurable radiological effects on the health of local people , and that the only significant problems resulted from psychological factors , notably stress . |
| 30 | One consequence is that it has caused substantial administrative problems for us . |