Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 2 | Or perhaps he has intentionally made the ‘ syntax error ’ in order to alert people to the danger of their nuclear inventions . |
| 3 | She had a family of four , and for the past ten years or so she has worked voluntarily at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 4 | Over the past 15 years or so it has spread through Russia and then to Western Europe . |
| 5 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |
| 6 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 7 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 8 | If he 's on his own , and not waiting for his friends to come in and help him , sooner or later he has to come and get you . |
| 9 | Either the imaginary has been ignored altogether , in which case Irigaray is mistakenly described as a biological essentialist ( Sayers , 1982 , p. 131 ; 1986 , pp. 42–8 ) , or else it has been interpreted as purely and simply a Lacanian concept , in which case the conclusion is that Irigaray has misunderstood or misread Lacan , and has not taken on board the implications of his theory ( see Mitchell and Rose , 1982 , pp. 54 6 ; Rose , 1985 , pp. 136 , 140 ; Ragland-Sullivan , 1986 , pp. 273–80 ) . |
| 10 | I will return to Wordsworth — whether or no he has an extended vision or a circumscribed grandeur — whether he is an eagle in his nest , or on the wing . |
| 11 | The internationally respected journal Index on Censorship devoted the whole of its September 1988 issue to the question of liberty in Britain , because , as its opening article entitled ‘ Why Britain ? ’ put it , ‘ if freedom is diminished in the United Kingdom , where historically it has deep roots , it is potentially diminished everywhere ’ . |
| 12 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 13 | She 's now able to walk around the house although outside she has to use a wheelchair . |
| 14 | Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests . |
| 15 | This has meant that elsewhere it has been very difficult to assess the extent of the problem , which has therefore been underestimated . |
| 16 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 17 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 18 | The ratio of the capital inflows to the trade and commerce position has averaged 0.31 , although clearly it has also been quite volatile . |
| 19 | She is terrified of flying … so much so that often she has to fight an inner turmoil even to step on the plane . |
| 20 | This is a major predator of small mammals in Europe ( Brown , 1976 ) , although today it has a limited distribution . |
| 21 | He knows that tomorrow he has to tell Potter that he needs the time off again . |
| 22 | I am sure that sometimes it has even started one off on its own grooming session . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I have to admit that there she has n't behaved too badly . |
| 24 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 25 | Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years . |
| 26 | Later at the buffet lunch in the marquee he barged to the front of the queue saying , ‘ Oh , I do n't believe in queuing ! ’ and when somebody behind him objected , convinced her with a sort of apologetic bashfulness that actually he has diabetes , you see , and so needs to eat right now . |
| 27 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 28 | She was a mutilated machine , and besides she has already forgotten him : I am meant to be comforted by that ? |
| 29 | And besides he has a large family of his own already . ’ |
| 30 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |