Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 2 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |
| 3 | This was fortunate for the Hearts forward Ian Ferguson who was as surprised as anyone to remain on the field after flooring Gus Caesar with as good a right hook as has been seen this side of Madison Square Gardens for many a long day . |
| 4 | Zimbabwe , achieving independence in the 1980s , faced leaner economic times than had Zambia in the 1960s . |
| 5 | Paul Daniels who has been known to turn the odd trick as has |
| 6 | Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before . |
| 7 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 8 | By portraying the returned veteran as having been affected by experiences in an alien land , these films reflected the manner in which American society viewed these unwelcome reminders of defeat . |
| 9 | Such inducements can be caught by British law as having a clearly defined ‘ tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ . |
| 10 | He described an adequate marriage as having periods of intimacy interspersed with periods of autonomy for both partners , who , at the same time , do not allow the relationship to become too tenuous and know that the other will be there when needed . |
| 11 | First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions . |
| 12 | The new textbooks tended to deal more candidly with Japan 's pre-1945 aggression than had been the case previously . |
| 13 | Smoking control advocates will be thus justified in broadcasting that the tobacco industry is ( yet again ) on the public record as having been shown to be deceitful in its communications with the public . |
| 14 | Not that she read it ; it was just easier to bury her face in its glossy pages than to have to endure Nicolo 's stony-faced silence . |
| 15 | For these reasons , Erik Wright ( 1985 ) regards the very top managers as having a class position among the capitalist ( upper ) class , while the managerial and professional middle class occupy ‘ contradictory class locations ’ combining some elements of capitalistic control with other elements of proletarian dependence . |
| 16 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 17 | If the hon. Lady knew what was available to those of her constituents who are unemployed , she would know that we offer a wider range of help to unemployed people than has ever been available in this country before . |
| 18 | Whitaker also quoted Cornish royalty as having their capital at Liskeard in around 614 AD . |
| 19 | First was the argument that the urban is characterized not by any spatial or cultural boundary as had been contended by earlier theorists , but as the site of consumption processes involved in the reproduction of labour power . |
| 20 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Bottoms sees the central power of the British state as having become more absolute in recent years , which part two of law one says should lead to harsher punishment . |
| 22 | For secular courts , the consequence was a revival of inquest proceedings on a much more extended scale than had been common in the eleventh century , causing a demand for documentary proof that chanceries and monastic scriptoria were hard pressed to satisfy . |
| 23 | General Schwarzkopf , summing up the overall result on 27 February , described the rout of the Iraqi army as having been achieved by a ‘ flanking manoeuvre , trapping thousands of its troops ’ . |
| 24 | She ‘ would prefer to think of different languages as having the potential to exploit differing degrees of subjectivity ’ but she does not think there is ‘ any neutral ontology or world view which is objective and can serve as a universal yardstick . |
| 25 | Yesterday you reported the Scottish executive as having clarified the attitude of the party in Scotland to water privatisation , in the wake of John Smith 's recent speech about ownership not mattering , and Tom Clarke 's discomfiture at being questioned over it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd rather crawl on broken glass than have you manhandle me . |
| 27 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 28 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |
| 29 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 30 | Class F The right of a spouse ( commonly the wife ) to occupy the matrimonial home though having no legal estate therein under the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 as amended . |