Example sentences of "has [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Code is very persuasive for a number of reasons : ( 1 ) Any company listed on the London Stock Exchange which does not comply with the Code can have its listing suspended or withdrawn ( although the Panel has rarely had to use this sanction and it can have the effect of injuring innocent shareholders ) . |
| 2 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 3 | Psychology has rarely tried to correct this bias . |
| 4 | The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world . |
| 5 | Jack is thought to be the GHOST of some poor manacled prisoner who died in a dungeon and has henceforth sought to torment other humans . |
| 6 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 7 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 8 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 9 | But Washington has not admitted using new types of anti-personnel weapons , although evidence indicates that it did . |
| 10 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 11 | So far it has not managed to find suitable grounds big enough to take four lawns which would make it eligible to become a competition centre . |
| 12 | The geographical patterning of the subsequent ‘ national ’ economic recovery has largely served to reinforce this dichotomy . |
| 13 | MODEL turned actress Shebah Ronay , 20-year-old daughter of fashion designer Edina Ronay , has just completed shooting two episodes of the Thames TV series Covington Cross . |
| 14 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 15 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 16 | But the biggest scam of all is run by the Government , which has somehow managed to harness young energy , ambition and initiative without ever giving it a real chance to shine through . |
| 17 | Despite his avowed slobdom , Peter FitzSimons has somehow managed to play seven rugby union Tests for Australia . |
| 18 | In Fig. 3 the oldest branch ( c ) will soon have to be cut right back to the vine stump and it can be seen that the vigneron tending this vine has already decided to cultivate another branch ( b ) in preparation . |
| 19 | The government has already decided to bring special health authorities into the internal market . |
| 20 | This mean that as it has already applied to run that route it only now needs clearance from the British government . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , the THORP plant is in fact nearing completion , and the Sellafield management is boasting of the long list of multimillion pound contracts it has already won to reprocess nuclear fuel from around the world . |
| 22 | Michael Sams , 51 , has already admitted kidnapping 25-year-old Stephanie Slater but denies murdering 18year-old Julie Dart . |
| 23 | Sams , 51 , has already admitted kidnapping 25-year-old Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , but denies murdering 18-year-old Julie Dart . |
| 24 | Oliffe has already admitted keeping 300 sheep in pens surrounded by broken bottles and barbed wire in Gloucester . |
| 25 | ‘ As no court has ever attempted to define fraud so no court has ever attempted to define undue influence , which includes one of its many varieties . |
| 26 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 27 | The centre has been in financial trouble before , but has always managed to find further sources of funding at times of apparent crisis . |
| 28 | IAAF president Primo Nebiolo has always refused to accept any decision taken by the American courts and that was still their stance last night . |
| 29 | The Christian Church has always refused to accept this idea . |
| 30 | However , by the time a foal has matured , it has usually come to accept that patting is some peculiar human aberration to indicate friendliness — and accepts it as such . |