Example sentences of "[conj] has the " in BNC.

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1 The man reassuring him is , or has the authority of , the omniscient and omnipotent novelist .
2 Or has the show been dominated by a faction from Goldsmith 's College ?
3 Are the ridge tiles properly pointed , or has the mortar fallen out ?
4 The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board .
5 Most important of all , are you able to accept each other as equal , mature individuals , or has the parent/child relationship never been outgrown , so that one of you may feel the need to dominate , and the other will begin to lose confidence ?
6 Has this 72 per cent devaluation of the pound helped British exports to Switzerland or has the strong Swiss franc crippled Swiss manufacturing ?
7 Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ?
8 Is there any chance of a job or has the Godfather Of Soul got the market sewn up ?
9 Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’
10 Advice to young giant otters — try not to bleed while feeding on piranhas ; or has the reputation of the fish been a little overstated ?
11 Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ?
12 there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) .
13 Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) .
14 Is the bark naturally as black as it is now , or has the dirt from the air soiled it ?
15 Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’
16 If the leader is good at finding mutually acceptable prices , or has the market power to punish deviants from its prices sufficiently , agreement can be entirely tacit .
17 Where teachers have sought to accommodate the subject requirements of the National Curriculum , have they achieved a truer balance than that shown by our figures , or has the result been an imbalance even more marked than that which obtained previously ?
18 The HP4 requirement has been or has the potential to be met without further Green Belt loss .
19 Or has the shadow of a nuclear holocaust changed all that ?
20 Or has the right hon. Gentleman changed his mind again because he wants the key to No. 10 ?
21 the extent to which the project will , or has the potential to , disseminate enterprise activities within the University ;
22 The code contrast here seems to relate to such things as the distinction between talk about action and talk as action , the degree of speaker involvement in , or distance from , a message , whether a statement reflects personal opinion or knowledge , whether it refers to specific instances or has the authority of a generally known fact .
23 Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose .
24 Nor has the KGB conducted many privately organised invasions as the CIA did against Cuba at the Bay of Pigs .
25 Nor has the possession of oil or any other natural resource been the sole key to development success .
26 No , there has not been another report saying how well she did in the South Atlantic , the European parliament has not ‘ liberated ’ Britain 's £500 million rebate from the European Community , nor has the opposition to the new nuclear power station at Sizewell withdrawn from the public inquiry The news that the Prime Minister has awaited with bated breath ever since she visited CERN last year comes from Switzerland , and it has nothing to do with Zurich , or gnomes .
27 The Down Orange Welfare and Ulster Service Corps ( both rural and small town ) have not had a single member imprisoned for a terrorist offence nor has the rural section of the Orange Volunteers .
28 Not all the winds of the last decade have , by any means , been unfavourable , nor has the ship been entirely rudderless and without power .
29 Nor has the Labour Party , which has traditionally kept its own counsel on ‘ law-and-order ’ matters , proved entirely immune to the surrounding clamour .
30 Nor has the potential and positive contribution of musicians been widely acknowledged in the process of reform .
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