Example sentences of "[that] has [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 2 | It is a habit that has historically enjoyed a measure of success in maintaining control over and transmitting limited knowledge to young people in large numbers in the physically restricted space of the school classroom . |
| 3 | Nearly all the 65 contributors work in the United Kingdom , a bias that has slightly influenced the selection of topics and viewpoints . |
| 4 | Their debacle against Essex , when the last eight wickets went down in the final 20 overs to Mark Ilott and John Childs , reflected a temperamental flaw that has repeatedly dogged the county . |
| 5 | In contrast with Bali , the Fipa as described by Willis provide an example of a hierarchical and centralized society that has successfully generalized a norm of peaceful interaction originating at the local community level . |
| 6 | Equally controversial has been the recently-introduced Employment Contracts Act that has drastically undercut the powers of the trade unions — to the extent that New Zealand may now be in breach of International Labour Organisation provisions . |
| 7 | But no-one in Tokyo dares say with any confidence it spells the end of a collapse that has nearly halved the value of Japanese shares since 1989 . |
| 8 | The marketing agents , Telemundi , have found themselves with the unenviable task of selling an event that has yet to capture the imagination of public and sponsors in a soccer-mad-country at a time when all media resources are concentrated on the approaching Olympic Games . |
| 9 | They are part of a three-year programme that has already seen the opening of six new nurseries with a further eight expected to open later this year . |
| 10 | The 5.3-litre engine and 3-speed automatic gearbox have gone replaced by the 6-litre V12 and 4speed gearbox that has already done a lot to transform the XJ saloons . |
| 11 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 12 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 13 | The hand of fate that has recently dealt the Brandywell club some crushing blows seems intent on turning the screw further . |
| 14 | One firm that has recently installed a CAD system is the Somerset shoemaker Clarks Ltd . |
| 15 | Scotland 's 1954 World Cup team will go down in history as one of the most disastrous and ill-prepared rabble that has ever represented the country abroad . |
| 16 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
| 17 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 18 | This is a severe example of a kind of reviewing that has consistently created a line of demarcation between British and European ( or American ) taste . |
| 19 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 20 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 21 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |