Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 2 | She has come to help a diocesan Franciscan order here . |
| 3 | He does n't know what he has to do to win a regular first team place . ’ |
| 4 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
| 5 | He arrived late yesterday afternoon , it seems , and he has offered to give a little recital to anyone on the island who wishes to attend . |
| 6 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 7 | But he has failed to command a regular place during Graeme Souness 's reign as manager and the signing of Nigel Clough looks to have been the final straw for Ronny . |
| 8 | Because he has failed to offer a clear-cut criterion for the rejection of any coherent research programme , or for choosing between rival research programmes , one might wish to say , with Feyerabend , that Lakatos 's methodology is ‘ a verbal ornament , as a memorial to happier times when it was still thought possible to run a complex and often catastrophic business like science by following a few simple and ‘ rational ’ rules ’ . |
| 9 | I have used pragmatic principles derived from Grice ( 1975 ) already , but the maxims of quality and quantity are of immediate concern to us here because , in scene eleven , Anderson fails to provide the chairman with an adequate explanation for why he has chosen to give a new paper . |
| 10 | It has chosen to steer a middle course between them rather than undertake a strategic review . |
| 11 | It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs . |
| 12 | Suppose it has tried to promote a special line of soft toys by selling them next to infants ' clothes . |