Example sentences of "[that] he has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An announcement now , by the Chancellor , that he has instructed the Governor of the Bank of England to start negotiations on entry with his European counterparts , would transform the situation . |
| 2 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 3 | When Jenson continues that the reason why the biblical God is called ‘ Father ’ is that the attempt is being made to get away from sexuality , with which women are more naturally to be associated , we may think that he has given the game away ! |
| 4 | I thank the Minister for the information that he has given the House . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's possible that he has taught the gardener 's cat , ’ replied Mr Appin thoughtfully , ‘ but I do n't believe he has had time to teach any other cats . ’ |
| 6 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 7 | If the buyer informs the seller that he has accepted the goods . |
| 8 | I 'm delighted that he has accepted the invitation to return after a decade to lecture to us on Charles Darwin . |
| 9 | The buyer 's greatest exposure will come not so much from the fact that he has accepted the seller 's standard conditions as governing the contract between them , but from situations where there is a mismatch between the obligations undertaken by the seller in favour of the buyer under the subcontract , and the obligations undertaken by the buyer to his customer under the prime contract . |
| 10 | Secondly , if X discloses information in confidence to Y and Y then discloses the information in confidence to Z ( but does not tell Z that he has obtained the information from X ) then X will be able to proceed directly against Z if Z disregards the obligation of confidence ( see Saltman Engineering Co v Campbell Engineering Co [ 1963 ] 65 RPC 203 ) . |
| 11 | MATRIARCH Emma Funnell has banished Andrew Jones , husband of her great grand-daughter Peggy , from her Bramble House home after learning that he has swindled the car firm of thousands , helping him buy a house for his mistress , Rosie Milburn . |
| 12 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 13 | In this case the bill of lading ( i.e. the document given by the shipowner acknowledging that he has received the goods ) will usually indicate that the goods are held according to the seller 's instructions . |
| 14 | As the hon. Gentleman has raised it , I reply assuming that he has received the permission of the family for it to be the subject of a public exchange . |
| 15 | Will the Minister confirm that he has received the results of the review of the trunk road system in Scotland and that the bypass , once it has been approved , will be given first priority in this list of trunk roads ? |
| 16 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 17 | If he is , he will know that he has repeated the error that was made in England and Wales . |
| 18 | Statistical comparisons with previous periods indicate that he has extended the time for supplementary questioning on ministerial statements and on Private Notice Questions and this has enabled more Members to be called . |
| 19 | Our MP Mr Ken Hind ( Conservative , West Lancs ) wrote to people in Scarisbrick saying that he has pushed the Department of Transport into accepting the need for a bypass between Ormskirk and Southport . |
| 20 | More than a quarter of those who said they intended to vote Labour said they either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that he has served the town well . |
| 21 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 22 | I congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities on the way that he has piloted the Bill through the House so far . |
| 23 | Apart from the numerous psycho-sexual problems which afflict humanity , the man may see himself and be regarded by society as having reached a stage of decline ; dissatisfaction with career may culminate in the forties with the realisation that he has reached the end of progress in this respect ; and so on . |
| 24 | Therefore , you will be asked to continue using the wheelchair to move the patient around until the physiotherapist is sure that he has reached the point where he can walk correctly and safely . |
| 25 | It should be said straight away that he has done the job thoroughly . |
| 26 | Quinn 's expert manager will be one who recognizes that he has to guide the organization rather than lead it too definitively . |
| 27 | Someone called Sebastian says that he has named the movement to follow post-modernism ; it is called belatedness . |
| 28 | The elder 's opponents and detractors claim that he has gone too far , that he has overstepped the bounds of acceptable discipline . |
| 29 | However , he then says that he has continued the work of John XXIII with such fidelity that , ‘ if anything , the criticism that I lack initiatives of my own would be nearer the mark ’ ( Notizario , 13 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 30 | Coun John Garvey 's solicitors have revealed that he has issued the summons against Middlesbrough councillor Mike J Carr . |