Example sentences of "[indef pn] has [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the evidence suggests that no-one has properly quantified the cost of educating end users in all the user-hostile features of a dumb 3270 attached to a mainframe application , let alone any of the other hidden costs of the mainframe . |
| 2 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 3 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 4 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 5 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 6 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 7 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 8 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 9 | Glashow , for example , was reported to say that the Nobel committee took a ‘ bit of a chance ’ because ‘ nobody has yet built a machine that is capable to check ’ the new particles predicted ( international Herald Tribune , 16 October , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Nobody has yet invented the mathematics for describing the total structure and behaviour of such an object as a physicist , or even of one of his cells . |
| 11 | Admittedly , nobody has actually studied the genetics of caddis houses . |
| 12 | Nobody has ever taken the trouble to build a cairn on the bare top but the Ordnance surveyors have erected a triangulation column to mark the highest point at 2058 feet . |
| 13 | Nobody has ever put the boot into literature like Richard Allen . |
| 14 | For example , if no one has yet discovered the principle of the lens , it is difficult to invent the telescope ; if you want to erect an astronomical observatory , therefore , you have to do your best with the current technology — in other words , build Stonehenge or some similar megalithic monument . |
| 15 | Unfortunately no one has yet written The Gro-Bag Gardener , but perhaps that theme is too down-market . |
| 16 | To my knowledge , no one has yet addressed the relationship between topic and theme in topic-prominent languages . |
| 17 | No one has yet hijacked a Trislander , but theoretically it could happen . |
| 18 | Yet from those English lips which utter this face-saving locution , one has yet to hear the words uttered in any sense that is not ‘ limiting ’ . |
| 19 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 20 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 21 | Dear L.B : When one has finally done the job and found the mot juste , I dare say violent language usually disappears . |
| 22 | One has rather to describe the features that are implied by the use of the name . |
| 23 | Much more will be said of the houses of the poor in chapter 3 , but the basic contrast can be readily tested — one has only to compare the range of interiors in the novels of Richardson or Jane Austen with the range in almost any one of Dickens 's novels . |
| 24 | One has only to substitute the name of Jesus for ‘ love ’ in that chapter to see that the whole thing is a pen picture of Christ 's way of life . |
| 25 | One has only to read the correspondence of F.J. Osborn with Lewis Mumford over these years ( Hughes , 1971 ) to appreciate the single-minded zeal that could be generated for the attainment of the new Jerusalem . |
| 26 | One has only to read the letter of Robert Scott Macfie , a middle-aged company chairman with degrees from Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities , who stayed in the ranks as a senior NCO , when he wrote of an action on the Somme in 1916 : ‘ The want of preparation , the vague orders , the ignorance of the objective and geography , the absurd haste and in general , the horrid bungling were scandalous . ’ |
| 27 | One has only to read the Scots and Welsh press and the immigrant press in England , such as the Irish Post , to see how its electoral campaign is based on race and bribes to every ethnic group at the expense of the English . |
| 28 | We know who his father was , my second cousin , Gervaise Harvey , but no one has ever revealed the name of Harry 's mother . |
| 29 | No one has ever worn an England sweater longer . |
| 30 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |