Example sentences of "[adv] [det] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 2 | Indeed it is the ability of the Apple Macintosh to integrate text and graphics so elegantly that has driven the market forward . |
| 3 | In two decades remarkably little has been done to alleviate the conditions of some of the poorest city citizens , who personified the unacceptable face of the urban crisis , even if the terms of the debate itself have changed dramatically . |
| 4 | Much has been written about the subject in terms of the various packages , both actually available and merely promised , but remarkably little has been conveyed about their actual usefulness for the businessman . |
| 5 | Presumably this has happened before , then ? ’ |
| 6 | And the telephone calls , the forty five ninety two , they have n't effectively been paid yet , but they are included in the result presumably this has n't er been finally settled as regards the cash but this is the result . |
| 7 | This one broke altogether this has . |
| 8 | Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour . |
| 9 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 10 | It has , by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge , given us much that has enriched our lives . |
| 11 | A further feature , implicit in much that has already been said , is the emphasis given by the staff to ‘ openness ’ and ‘ accessibility . ’ |
| 12 | And perhaps that has something to do with the very nature of an ex-patriate community . |
| 13 | It spent more than its SSA , but perhaps that has something to do with the marginally left-wing nature of the fire services union in our area . |
| 14 | The ‘ state of the art ’ of soil conservation is clearly in a sorry mess : ‘ The need for soil conservation was emphasised by Bennett ( 1955 ) , Jacks and Whyte ( 1939 ) and many others … but so little has been achieved that most recent reports … are virtually undistinguishable in factual content and sentiment from the earlier studies . ’ |
| 15 | The pity is that so little has changed since then . |
| 16 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 17 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
| 18 | It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto . |
| 19 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 20 | the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and |
| 21 | So that has been the company 's three-pronged strategy in the past year . |
| 22 | If dogs survive in the wild , they often have effects on the flora and fauna ; so that has a conservation effect and perhaps other effects on species in the environment . |
| 23 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 25 | On the literary side , in the course of the century or so that has passed since the Symbolist movement in France , both poetry and , to a lesser extent , literary prose have been characterized by a degree of linguistic innovation unknown in most earlier periods . |
| 26 | It is possible to do this sort of analysis only within the arthropod phylum , because only that has enough species , with enough measurable features . |
| 27 | If the wrong agreed on itself amounts to a tort against the plaintiff perhaps little has been lost by the restriction of conspiracy , for the combination must be carried into effect to cause damage and then the substantive tort is committed . |
| 28 | Hitherto this has led to some allegations in the Press about Whitehall obscurantism but little interest or pressure in Parliament itself . |
| 29 | Doyle added : ‘ Nobody will ever realise how much this has upset Stephen , it affected his confidence very , very badly . |
| 30 | " My dear , I can see how much this has upset you . |