Example sentences of "[det] [noun] has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money has now dried up . |
| 2 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 3 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 4 | ‘ I initially agreed to a meeting but that decision has now been put on hold , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 6 | Bet that boiler has already had it ! |
| 7 | This is particularly necessary , given that Moscovici has repeatedly stressed that there is a theory of social representations ( Moscovici , 1983 , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 9 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 10 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 11 | That change has severely reduced the amount of pension that many pensioners receive . |
| 12 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 13 | That 's right it 's been smothered under a kind of blanket , and that blanket has now been taken off . |
| 14 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 15 | In order that managers are in control of their budgets they need to know how much of that budget has already been committed in terms of the orders issued . |
| 16 | That case has now been settled with all allegations of misconduct being withdrawn and Mr Holdsworth has been compensated for the loss of his pension rights . |
| 17 | The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place . |
| 18 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 19 | That ambition has only been partially fulfilled . |
| 20 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | That figure has now risen to some 86 per cent. , which shows the Government 's achievement . |
| 22 | That practice has already been very successful — as , for example , in straw combustion for space heating , which was demonstrated at Woburn abbey . |
| 23 | That practice has now brought about a major change in the NHS . |
| 24 | The art of that continent has often been misunderstood , or treated paternalistically . |
| 25 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 26 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 27 | In my position you soon learn that football has only one certainty , that at the end of ninety minutes the final whistle blows unless there is extra time . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , that photograph has as much bearing on our present difficulties as the Tyrrell Society . |
| 29 | One month before the Institute 's pilot scheme to open Council meetings to the press and the public has even begun , that prediction has already come true . |
| 30 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |