Example sentences of "[indef pn] has [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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31 Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has .
32 Although no-one has won the race in successive years , he is happy and confident after good preparation in Brighton .
33 It is as though someone has swung an invisible sandbag at the rod , it curves over so fast and far , and so suddenly .
34 Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives .
35 Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
36 You do , in practice , see a lot of advertisements which appear as if someone has written a strategy and then put it in the advertisement as it stood .
37 ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday .
38 or someone has to take a , a bi a co company has to take a big lot off .
39 Someone has to take the Ariadne home again , remember ?
40 Someone has characterized the beatitudes as ‘ be-attitudes ’ .
41 Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night .
42 If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ?
43 But the pink-footed looks as if someone has pushed a tennis ball up into the top of a short sock : round head , short neck , with a small beak stuck on .
44 All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined .
45 Someone has to draw the short straw , ’ says Big Stan , 60 .
46 Someone has done a lovely drawing of me .
47 I think someone has done a great wrong .
48 In the Army someone has to carry the can .
49 I expect someone has to manage the account .
50 If , as frequently occurs , unpleasant symptoms arise as the result of the stress — the heart races , the stomach feels as though someone has tied a knot in it — we become so aware of these sensations that we are even less able to function well .
51 ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things .
52 ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it .
53 The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million .
54 So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ?
55 Someone has to appoint the director and the ombudsman , if we have one .
56 Someone has to provide the sites on a co-ordinated basis .
57 If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital .
58 If someone has had an accident in their home , fallen and injured themselves or been taken ill , they may not be able to attract the attention of neighbours , passers-by or people who call at the door .
59 At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond .
60 These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) .
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