Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is widespread recognition that nearly all discussions of international peace and security over the last 45 years , and of policy implications for the UK , have been informed by the protracted global confrontation between the superpowers which has only recently , and so dramatically , crumbled . |
| 2 | Ronald Dworkin , in his book , Taking Rights Seriously ( Dworkin , 1978 ) , is one of the academic authors who has recently reintroduced a perspective reflecting these approaches into British legal theory through his argument that the fragmented process of legislation , adjudication and administration can at least be checked if not comprehended when measured against rights , rights which derive ultimately from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 3 | Edward York makes him more of a Friar Larry , Romeo 's dishevelled contemporary , one of the lads who has unaccountably found himself a Franciscan . |
| 4 | For the last few months everything has rather fallen apart . |
| 5 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 6 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 7 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 8 | Some of the apparatus is made by Philips and Westinghouse , some by manufacturers he has never heard o It all looks slightly unfamiliar . |
| 9 | Yet though the African Social Studies Programme suffers from close comparison with its two elder brothers it has nevertheless already influenced practice and served as a forum for international exchange of ideas and can be seen as a contributory factor in the widespread change of emphasis towards study of man in his environment . |
| 10 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 11 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 12 | Pure ethanol in low concentrations ( <5% volume/volume ) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 13 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 14 | Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted . |
| 15 | Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ? |
| 16 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 17 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 18 | It was designed as a safety net , but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers . |
| 19 | It is not yet clear exactly how it would expand in this area , but the steps it has already taken are illuminating . |
| 20 | But as they gently mock the truth of their attachment they relapse into prose , which in their mouths lacks many of the anti-romantic , realistic , mocking connotations it has elsewhere in Shakespeare . |
| 21 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 22 | In dogs over three months of age , the hepatic-tracheal migration occurs less frequently , and at six months it has almost ceased . |
| 23 | British Telecommunications Plc 's BT North America has announced deployment of 9.6Kbps local dial capabilities in 99 new US cities , meaning that during the last six months it has more than doubled its coverage . |
| 24 | His letter was probably the saddest , most pathetic six paragraphs it has ever been my misfortune to read . |
| 25 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 26 | Such a situation would lead to the creation of completely new settlements on existing caravan sites which has already been described . |
| 27 | She is one of only 20 women Circuit Judges out of over 500 and one of very few Circuit Judges who has never been a barrister . |
| 28 | Civil rights activist , feminist , pacifist , since the mid-1960s she has steadily produced novels of anger and integrity that deal with contemporary issues . |
| 29 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 30 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |