Example sentences of "have in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 .
2 The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats .
3 It has been traditionally hunted for food and as a source of medicinal oil , and has in recent years been accidentally captured in fishing nets .
4 Volkswagen , which is the largest European car producer , has in recent months aligned itself behind the car protectionist lobby because , heavily dependent on high cost German labour , it is aware that it will have difficulties in beating off Japanese cars when they are imported without quotas into Europe .
5 First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists .
6 An American model of ‘ privatism ’ ( see Barnekov , Boyle and Rich , 1989 ) has in recent times been deemed as exportable .
7 His son Michael has in recent years become the more famous actor , but with the re-release of Spartacus , Kirk Douglas , now 74 , is back on the big screen again .
8 Apart from several popular Open Gardens events , it has in recent years twice won the North Humberside prize for the Best Kept Village .
9 The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche .
10 Dennett ( see below ) has in recent publications emphasized the relative emptiness of the contents of consciousness : all that is not there and which , for much of the workings of our bodies , can not be brought into the contents of consciousness .
11 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .
12 The 19th-century legend of Kaspar Hauser , that strange boy with no origins and no language , who appeared as if from nowhere , has in recent years reappeared in a film by Werner Herzog and in the poetry of Georg Trakl .
13 ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following .
14 All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK .
15 As the speeches of your Lordships show Parliament has in recent years made many inroads into the privilege in a number of statutes .
16 Since these forms of compulsion are not directly relevant for present purposes , it is unnecessary to elaborate them ; but I think it pertinent to observe that the concept of duress has in recent years been expanded to embrace economic duress .
17 But there has in recent years been a more influential convergence , both in studies of art and in communications studies , around the concept of ‘ forms ’ .
18 Interest in BSL by hearing people , which has in recent years grown enormously reached a peak in 1988 with a broadcast by the of a television programme on this subject , consisting of ten weekly parts , each of fifteen minutes .
19 The ’ chancer ’ or ’ bodger ’ in the building industry has in recent years become more of a problem .
20 There has in recent years , been an increasing tendency to make use of adjustable pallet racking in conjunction with ‘ stacker-cranes ’ to heights of 20 metres .
21 For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes .
22 I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks .
23 Intra-market business is large and , as is shown by Table 3.3 , has in recent years been averaging over £2 billion per business day .
24 Further , LCH has in recent years agreed with most , if not all , of the London markets that it will only accept contracts for registration from clearing members who are members of the relevant market.3 A financial futures contract will be registered only if the clearing members in whose names it is submitted are members of the financial futures market .
25 Perhaps now that Morse , with its lack of overt sex or violence , has in recent weeks achieved the highest rating of any current programme , producers and writers may realise that delving into the same old muck no longer wins large audiences .
26 She has in recent years been able to devote more time to dressmaking and tailoring — arts which she has perfected to professional standards .
27 The independent status ascribed to this concept by elite theorists , as opposed to the reflective and subordinate quality it has in late Marx and early Marxism , is an important characteristic of elite theory .
28 I have suggested that the curriculum content of our primary schools has in broad terms always been ‘ agreed ’ .
29 Secondly , migration from the cities has in net terms been removing the types of people that are least affected by increasing unemployment .
30 If operation of the model can , to some degree , accurately represent the workings of the market then an individual company may be able to gain a deeper understanding of the relative position that it has in that market .
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