Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 2 | Similar difficulties are likely to arise where a provision has more than one status ; eg where a procedure is treated , for some purposes , as also being a rule . |
| 3 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 4 | Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom . |
| 5 | ( b ) If the computer has more than one processor register , then instructions are necessary to transfer values to and from these registers , the source or destination of the value being either another processor register or a store location . |
| 6 | Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth . |
| 7 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 8 | Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast ; in particular , the Piper field has more than doubled its originally projected cost . |
| 9 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 10 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 11 | The Association has ever since this Congress played a prominent part in the affairs of the international deaf community through its membership of the World Federation , and it has itself greatly benefited from its international links . |
| 12 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 13 | The price of petrol thus has to reflect the cost of a single-occupant trip by bus or rail , so that private motoring only becomes cheaper if the car has more than one occupant . |
| 14 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 15 | The emphasis is on teamwork and on productivity ; our productivity per employee has more than doubled over the past two years . |
| 16 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 17 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 18 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 19 | The club has more than two hundred stewards to control the crowds as well as search the ground before anyone gets through the turnstiles . |
| 20 | This , the Government says , explains why those receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 21 | This , the Government says , explains why the number receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 22 | The balloon says it all : lager has less than 50 per cent of the British beer market yet the brewers spend two-thirds of their advertising money on it . |
| 23 | The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left . |
| 24 | The Community has more than 15,000 members . |
| 25 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 26 | Just as a novel is about characters in a story sequence and at the same time , at a different level , about many other things , so drama has more than one level of meaning . |
| 27 | Where a company or group has more than one pension scheme , disclose details on a combined basis , where possible , except that a deficiency of funding in one scheme should not be offset against a surplus in another scheme . |
| 28 | Weill correctly perceived that the voice of the American nation was to be found in the musical , but as this form commanded no intellectual respect , the musical establishment has ever since accused him of selling out politically as well as musically . |
| 29 | The earliest form of printed book illustration was the woodcut , and the art , with varying fortunes , has survived to the present day , so that the collector has more than five centuries to survey and a range of skill , from the superb work of Albrecht Dürer ( 1481–1504 ) to the charming absurdities of the chapbook printers , who inserted the same cuts in different publications with a reckless disregard for subject and appropriateness . |
| 30 | The wall has all but disappeared , East German uniforms are on sale in the flea markets and it 's rumoured the Stasi ‘ bug ’ factory is now making hearing aids . |