Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | our estimate for price elasticity is four and one to nought point eight minus one is one point eight , notice though that its ratio has jumped considerably or has doubled and the dummy variable itself is very significant the T ratio ten the coefficient on that dummy variable tells us the effect of the war on textile consumption , right so on average textile consumption rose by point two er see what the units of measurement are we do n't actually have units of er ah so we 'll |
| 2 | So far , the central committee has received more than 10,000 letters suggesting how these documents could be improved . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the Royal Society has received more than 500 applications from scientists for its own 30 ‘ elite ’ new blood fellowships . |
| 4 | So far , it has received more than 2,000 complaints . |
| 5 | The Institute has received more than 250 responses to the document , which are currently being analysed . |
| 6 | Touche Ross says that it has received more than 200 enquiries , including three ‘ serious ’ bids from the UK plus others from Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan and the US . |
| 7 | Is he aware that in south-east London — and serving my Dulwich constituency — is Haberdashers ' Aske 's city technology college , which has received more than 800 applications for 180 places ? |
| 8 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 9 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 10 | As Rhodes ( 1985 ) notes , sub-national government in the UK has developed extensively because until the 1970s it was the prime vehicle for building the welfare state . |
| 11 | The bees ' behaviour has developed phylogenetically and of course may now be regarded as a more or less necessary causal consequence of their finding food . |
| 12 | This has developed rapidly since James Watson and Francis Crick broke the genetic code in 1962 by uncovering the structure of DNA and has opened up not only abstract genetic knowledge but the manipulation of genes and the basis of life itself . |
| 13 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 14 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 15 | The service has developed significantly and is at an important stage whereby several major clients are considering adopting the Rentokil approach to facilities management . |
| 16 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 17 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 18 | The car has broken down and my two mates have taken it to a local garage to get it fixed . ’ |
| 19 | Since then , this relationship has broken down and architects have enjoyed lower rates of unemployment relative to the national situation . |
| 20 | Either the telemetric system has broken down or they 've gone bonkers at Bacton . ’ |
| 21 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
| 22 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 23 | He has stopped there and is deciding whether or not to come over the ridge . |
| 24 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 25 | The Department of Transport goes on : ’ But the project has altered considerably since ’ — the Department admits that — ’ and a lot of that information is no longer current , particularly on the revenue side . |
| 26 | The pattern of employment has altered radically since our traditional industries began . |
| 27 | She has travelled widely and has lived in four countries in the Commonwealth . |
| 28 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 29 | The ladder is broken ; it has rusted through because I left it out in the rain . |
| 30 | The convention of the Handelian opera seria has corroded so that today we find it frigid entertainment , but was it ever a satisfactory dramatic form , with its succession of da capo arias , its wastelands of recitative , and its statuesque indifference to tension , beyond conspiracy and complication ? |