Example sentences of "[adv] has [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame .
2 However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) .
3 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 .
4 Your Transport Policy Committee presumably has some thoughts on rail privatisation which are prevented from being published until the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its own evidence .
5 Rarely in the history of the Cannes Film , Festival has a debutant director won the Palme d'Or ; but then , rarely has such a formidable and original talent been displayed in a first film .
6 Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners .
7 Older men are usually polygynous ; thus a youth rarely has available for marriage an age-mate female , and he must wait for a younger generation of females to mature before cohabitation with them .
8 There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps .
9 For example , a maker of consumer goods like cookies or cigarettes rarely has direct contact with a consumer .
10 No matter how interesting the music and the dance movements , if the passages are too long the dancer rarely has sufficient stamina to sustain the dance to its proper climax .
11 I do help if I can , but I also point out to them that the help is to members of the ( and I send them details and a membership application form — but this rarely has any effect ; I do n't even get an acknowledgment as a rule ) .
12 Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh :
13 The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value .
14 The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ .
15 Traditional Japanese cooking does not have three or four courses as we do , but rather has five distinctive types of dishes — raw , grilled , simmered , stewed or fried — which are presented in a customary order .
16 Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) .
17 In any difficult situation we can know that when we have done what 's in our power to do , we can place our problem into God 's hand and into God 's care , knowing that he perhaps has other hands to take up our work that we have done all we can do with .
18 A candidate who is too brief perhaps has little to offer ; another who spreads him/herself over four sides of A4 may be revealing basic traits of long windedness and , more seriously , an inability to decide what is important and what is not .
19 People can come to expect too much of someone who suddenly has great success .
20 A rabbit which up to that time may have been perfectly content to sit it out suddenly has more grounds for fear .
21 Peggy Sue naturally has six different kinds of bread options for toast , while the choices of preserves to go on it are enumerated practically to the power of 10 .
22 None of us naturally has these qualities , since we are descendants of flawed parenting , in one degree or another .
23 A last fling could be the rather charming ‘ tatie kite ’ which apparently has rural roots .
24 The company remains tight-lipped about the launch date for its long-awaited 88110 upgrades to the AViiONs , which it apparently has ready to go in the Labs .
25 The day I was there , all the children were boys , but this apparently has more to do with French culture than computer culture .
26 As the prevalence of a high waist-hip ratio among healthy women is larger than the prevalence of obesity ( 15% and 5% respectively in our study ) body fat distribution apparently has more impact on fertility than obesity .
27 Culpeper advised it as being " very effectual for all pains in the head coming of a cold cause " , and modern research seems to indicate fairly conclusively that chewing the fresh leaves daily has considerable help in curing migraine .
28 How long has homoeopathic medicine been in existence ?
29 How long has all this been going on , behind my back ? ’
30 Long has great hopes of Clark , who will be making the English Schools youth 1500 metres championship his main target this summer .
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