Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money has not been declared in the company accounts of Polly Peck . |
| 2 | But all that money has not bought enough magic . ’ |
| 3 | That money has now dried up . |
| 4 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 5 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 6 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 7 | ‘ I initially agreed to a meeting but that decision has now been put on hold , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | Although some of these points have been considered , our understanding of colonic function has not increased much and measurements of colonic pressures have not found their way into routine clinical practice ; measurements of transit have a more practical value in selected patients . |
| 9 | It is less clear , however , to what extent and in what ways this broad division has actually manifested itself in the classroom and in internal school debates and policies , and in local authority policies . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 11 | The arguments for the development of the media industries of regional cities has always had both economic and cultural aspects . |
| 12 | in those four weeks , if I do n't realize that that cheque has n't cleared , like I do n't even no what cheques are cleared 'cos I have n't got a date written on it . |
| 13 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 14 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 15 | Bet that boiler has already had it ! |
| 16 | This is particularly necessary , given that Moscovici has repeatedly stressed that there is a theory of social representations ( Moscovici , 1983 , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct . |
| 18 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 19 | The five-point try has not stopped teams looking to put points on the board through taking kicks , though a bird in the hand is still worth two in the bush . |
| 20 | A total ban has not been ruled out in the event that scientists discover minerals which could be extracted without damaging the environment . |
| 21 | Anti-British hysteria has always been a politically convenient sidetrack for European politicians . |
| 22 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 23 | The relevant experiment , by Walcott and Michener , has not escaped criticism ; but it is not the only piece of evidence to go against the sun arc hypothesis , and even if that hypothesis has not been definitely refuted , we can say that such imperfect evidence as there is counts against it . |
| 24 | A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas . |
| 25 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 26 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 27 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 28 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 29 | In the 1950s and early 1960s the , then , Ministry of Public Buildings and Works ( now English Heritage ) sponsored the rescue excavation of a considerable number of cemeteries , but the enthusiasm of that support has not been matched by the rate of publication , to the extent that it is very difficult to comment on excavation methods during that period . |
| 30 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |