Example sentences of "[that] has [adv] [verb] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One firm that has recently installed a CAD system is the Somerset shoemaker Clarks Ltd . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |