Example sentences of "has [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Indecent Displays ( Control ) Act 1981 was sound in principle , but so narrow in application that it has rarely if ever been tested in the courts . |
| 2 | This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects . |
| 3 | This feature is probably best described in terms of the effect that it has rather than how that effect is produced in technical terms . |
| 4 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 5 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 6 | At the other end of the spectrum , J. Philip Bromberg 's Physical Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1980 ) has less than 20 pages on spectroscopy , of which only 4 are on NMR ! |
| 7 | If the red light starts to flash whilst in operation , the battery has less than 5% life left , and there is no light at all when the battery is completely flat . |
| 8 | Built in 1981 , it has less than 1,200 on the clock . |
| 9 | IBM is a general partner but has less than 50% . |
| 10 | The cultural unit of DGX has less than thirty staff . |
| 11 | Dr Michael Russell of the Addiction Research Unit , commented : ‘ Nicotine replacement has less than 5 per cent of the risk of smoking ’ , while Dr Chris Steele , who runs a smoking cessation clinic in Manchester and is the author of books on giving up smoking , added : ‘ A smoker with any smoking-related disease would be far , far safer to change over to nicotine gum than to continue smoking . |
| 12 | This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . |
| 13 | This non-alcoholic drink has less than 50 calories and is a healthy addition to any picnic or packed lunch . |
| 14 | The tobacco industry therefore spends about £2 per head on advertising for each person in the province whereas the Agency has less than 70p per head to spend on promoting all aspects of health such as nutrition , alcohol and sexual health . |
| 15 | Courtaulds has less than six per cent of the European coil market , with a turnover of £15 million , although it is the market leader in Spain and making significant gains in other territories . |
| 16 | Or just making sure he has enough when he retires ? |
| 17 | As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October , time has all but run out . |
| 18 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 19 | To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 . |
| 20 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 21 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 22 | In fact , most of the central section has all but disappeared , the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town . |
| 23 | The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left . |
| 24 | Some have taken the view that the increasing centralisation of policy control by government , and the devolution of responsibility to schools and colleges , accompanied by a range of alternative provision such as grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges , has all but made LEAs redundant . |
| 25 | Instead of learning more about how people function in a world whose intellectual demands are growing , the US has all but outlawed the data , encouraged to do so by what it encounters in the national press . |
| 26 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 27 | Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth . |
| 28 | But even if the dowry has all but vanished , to marry a rich husband or wife is still a means of improving one 's financial situation . |
| 29 | It is a political tragedy that this whole subject has all but disappeared from the world 's agenda under the impact of the past three astonishing years in Europe . |
| 30 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |