Example sentences of "have [vb pp] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 2 | The American writer James Q. Wilson ( 1975 ) has claimed that a 20 per cent reduction in street robbery could be achieved simply by locking offenders up for longer . |
| 3 | The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it . |
| 4 | The Reviewing Committee has recommended that a further £15–20 million be made available to buy works of art threatened with export for the nation . |
| 5 | Interested parties will find in it an array of ( other people 's ) opinion that can be dazzling , for postmodern methodology has ensured that a little bit of everything ( from a quartermaster 's appraisal of the value of art to a consideration of Santa Barbara 's peacocks ) is included . |
| 6 | This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation . |
| 7 | Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order . |
| 8 | It has argued that a total ban on sex may be unnecessary ; it would prefer to have rules that prevent a lawyer from bullying a client to have sex . |
| 9 | Even in America Ukraine has found friends : Zbigniew Brzezinski , once President Carter 's national security adviser , has argued that a strong and independent Ukraine would be a powerful bulwark for the West against the re-emergence of an expansionist Russia . |
| 10 | Arnot ( 1981 ) has argued that a theoretical division exists between ‘ cultural ’ ( what I have characterized as ‘ liberal ’ and ‘ radical ’ ) approaches and ‘ political economy ’ ( Marxist-feminist ) approaches . |
| 11 | , A Tass report from Moscow has said that a vast reserve of natural gas , capable of " meeting Soviet and Western demands for decades " has been found near to the Barents Sea . |
| 12 | A judge has said that a financial consultant who went broke owing investors almost two million pounds was a trusted man of good character . |
| 13 | Erm should the erm that , given that er , sorry , that the er , er O P C S in fact erm er after every census makes er guesses about its accuracy erm would erm the spokesman , is the spokesman aware that in fact O P C S has said that a fair erm representation of the intercensal increase in population in Leicestershire er between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety one is in fact fifteen thousand people and does n't he feel that to provide for fifty three thousand in the structure plan is a little over the top ? |
| 14 | For instance the chronological grouping of particular watermarks has revealed that a small portrait of Petrus Sylvius , Saskia 's cousin , was printed twice : once in 1637 , which is the date below Rembrandt 's signature this was on the occasion of Sylvius 's move from Amsterdam to Friesland after he had been received as a minister of the church and again , in an unaltered state still carrying the date of 1637 much later , in 1653 . |
| 15 | Archaeological evidence has revealed that a cataclysmic flood overwhelmed the Sumerian plains about 4200 BC . |
| 16 | Lewis ' manager , Frank Maloney , has revealed that a Welsh businessman personally collected 293 tickets from the London headquarters of promoters Champion Enterprises , including 44 ringside seats at £250 . |
| 17 | Oxfordshire health authority has decided that a threatened £500,000 overspend means it can not open a new cardiology unit which would have freed beds for other uses . |
| 18 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a managing director was not an employee of his company and therefore not entitled to a redundancy payment from the Department of Employment when the company became insolvent . |
| 19 | Once an organization has decided that a particular proposal falls within its remit and appears sufficiently meritorious to warrant further examination , what should happen next , before it is approved , is a testing process to see whether the problem which the proposal is designed to solve actually exists , and if so , whether it is sufficiently significant to warrant the labour and expense of a harmonizing measure . |
| 20 | Instead the town council has decided that a civic medallion should be worn instead . |
| 21 | A County Court has decided that a paying bank is under no obligation to pay a forged cheque even though it is supported by the bank 's guarantee card ( p 95 ) . |
| 22 | A County Court has decided that a paying bank is under no obligation to pay a forged cheque even though it is supported by the bank 's guarantee card ( see First Sport v Barclays Bank , Current Law , September 1992 , para 20 ) . |
| 23 | The work has shown that a complex history of several phases of precious-metal deposition and redistribution is recorded within the gold grains . |
| 24 | Studies of rural migration have largely neglected these factors although Dunn ( 1979 ) has shown that a substantial amount of short-distance movement in rural areas can be attributed to changing housing needs . |
| 25 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |
| 26 | High inflation in recent years has shown that a good pension often becomes a desirable part of employment . |
| 27 | He has shown that a black hole of mass M radiates like a black body at a temperature which only differs by a factor of 4π from the temperature deduced above . |
| 28 | It should be noted that experience has shown that a high number can deter a potential acquirer . |
| 29 | One study ( CBI , 1983 ) has shown that a significant proportion of firms actually experiencing fairly large changes in their total workforces report in response to such questions that their workforces have " stayed the same " . |
| 30 | The African National Congress from which the PAC split in 1959 , has agreed that a transitional government should be established this year and that there should be five years of power-sharing between major parties after the country 's first one man , one vote elections sometime next year . |