Example sentences of "[adv] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all that to wait for , rarely has the old stockmarket adage to ‘ sell in May and go away ’ been more apposite . |
| 2 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 3 | The 518 naturally has the larger , squarer boot ( 16 cubic feet ) . |
| 4 | We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer . |
| 5 | This is in stark contrast to the position in the United States , where Congress alone has the formal power to declare war and the Senate 's consent is necessary for the ratification of treaties and the appointment of federal public officers . |
| 6 | So has the parallel progress of women 's education , giving them at least in theory the same job opportunities as men . |
| 7 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 8 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 9 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 10 | The ships have gone and so has the Black Rat , but the opportunist Brown Rat remains a threat ashore . |
| 11 | So has the common assumption that retirement from paid employment is ‘ far less drastic ’ for women than for men . |
| 12 | More recently , we 're glad to say , so has the unleaded . |
| 13 | Not only has the essential large vacuum cell been reduced to a small glass cell , but Wieman has also been able to replace gas lasers with solid state devices . |
| 14 | ‘ The Marriott not only has the best service in town , but the best business facilities as well , ’ commented Travel Agent Magazine . |
| 15 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 16 | Not only has the right hon. Gentleman made an idiot of himself by that intervention , but he has achieved the interesting feat of misquoting himself . |
| 17 | Not only has the Labour party not realised that GCSE results at 16 in Labour-controlled authorities are some of the worst , but it has learnt nothing — it still opposes standardised testing from the age of seven . |
| 18 | However , the numbers of divorces could be slightly misleading in that , not only has the general population risen in numbers , but marriage itself is more popular , as we saw earlier in this chapter . |
| 19 | Not only has the whole financial environment within which the institution has to work altered radically , but also the types of course offered have changed greatly in overall character . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only has the Conservative party demonstrated that it is willing to spend a greater proportion of gross national product , but , by continuing to expand our economy , we have surpassed the Labour party bid at the 1987 election — when it said that it would increase spending on the national health service by 3 per cent . |
| 21 | Not only has the British government and its agencies borrowed less in recent years than other European governments , it is also the case that , until recently , the private bond market was narrow . |
| 22 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 23 | Not only has the popular daily press , represented by the Daily Mirror and the Sun , shown a rapidly increasing interest in printing rape cases , but so has the ‘ quality paper ’ , The Times . |
| 24 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 25 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 26 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 27 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 28 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 29 | And then I missed my chance and then I had only had the little primary school in until I was fourteen . |
| 30 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |