Example sentences of "[conj] has [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When a pet cat has started scratching the fabric of a valuable chair , for example , or has begun to make messes on an expensive carpet , it would be helpful to be able to sprinkle or smear some hated odour there to keep the animal away .
2 In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension .
3 We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) .
4 For example , if another company in the group has provided guarantees in respect of dividends or redemption , or has undertaken to purchase the shares , the issue will constitute a liability of the group and should be reported as such .
5 The settlor in relation to a settlement includes any person who has provided or has undertaken to provide funds directly or indirectly for the purposes of the settlement .
6 Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A
7 Yet it is plainly obvious to anyone who works in central London , or has tried to get admission to hospital there , that this is untrue .
8 For one thing , Caldwell deals with cases where D has either recognized the risk or has failed to give any thought to it , whereas Morgan applies only where D has formed a distinct belief that the victim is consenting , a situation not explicitly covered by Caldwell .
9 The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal .
10 Among the many reasons for this are , first , a belief that the spread of the secondary comprehensive school has led to a fall in standards or has failed to lead to the heralded improvement in quality ; and secondly , a raising of expectations , among politicians , parents , employers and young people , about what young people , in the light of growing youth unemployment , should be expected to achieve by the end of the period of compulsory education , especially in preparation for life , work and further/higher education .
11 If the Offline Operator does not want to enter information , or has finished entering information but does not want to action it , the TAB and BACKSPACE keys can be used to move to the next or previous field requiring an entry .
12 For this is part of what ‘ democracy ’ means , or has come to mean .
13 Moreover the exception to the nemo dat principle discussed in Chapter 11 will be significant here especially if it is considered that the dealer has bought or has agreed to buy the goods under s9 of FA 1889 .
14 Turnover has increased since Big Bang , although has tended to fall in 1988 and 1989 relative to 1987 ( but it is still above Big Bang levels ) , and dealing spreads and dealing costs have tended to fall .
15 Or maybe , the soul that has striven to rise above human weakness is given a brief , or longer , sojourn in some higher , astral sphere — until the effects of such aspirations are outweighed by the desires of the mind for more life experience in this denser , physical world .
16 ‘ Some of the comment that has appeared has been ill-advised , ’ says finance director Harry Coe , diplomatically .
17 The question that has kept coming over the past weeks is : what will this new network sound like — what will it offer ?
18 A MAN behind a building firm that has taken thousands from customers for work that has remained undone was bouncing cheques to suppliers last spring .
19 Ollier and Pain ( 1981 ) consider an interesting case of an apparent diapir of gneiss that has risen to create a major domal landform .
20 This approach emphasises that abuse is rare simply because the idea of a fiduciary relationship ( a relationship where there is a special duty of trust and care ) , and the consequent fiduciary law that has developed to protect this sort of relationship , would neither have evolved nor survived until today .
21 The language that has developed to express these ideas is becoming increasingly more difficult for those outside the immediate discussion to understand .
22 To say that the GMC should not get involved in assessing the acceptability of a treatment a doctor uses in the way it is now prepared to assess a doctor 's professional behaviour is to cede the argument to those who claim that self regulation has become an introspective , bureaucratic activity that has grown detached from its original purpose of protecting patients .
23 Nevertheless , the view that the arts can , and should , be assessed is one that has begun to receive widespread support , with the authors of the Gulbenkian Report stating quite unequivocally the need for schools to provide basic information to parents and employers about :
24 It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade .
25 The second major change that has begun to emerge , and will undoubtedly continue into the '90s , is that of the migration of electronic publishing products , which previously required the power of a workstation , onto personal computers .
26 That has made a huge difference , and in terms of the response to the issues among so-called ‘ decision-makers ’ it is this increasing ability on the part of the environmental organisations to marshal good accurate evidence behind them that has begun to tilt the balance of opinion in their favour .
27 ‘ It 's money that has gone missing and the High Court proceedings are an attempt to recover it .
28 Frequently , this competition involved provision of military equipment to potential allies — an aspect of Cold War rivalry that has contributed to conflict in Ethiopia , Somalia and the Middle East .
29 Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically .
30 The big picture on the right shows how easy it is to slip a thumbnail into the torn leather of a ball that has become worn naturally .
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