Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] has [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , by the way , is the first Macintosh package we have met where it has to be installed by a loader program . |
| 2 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Suzie 's always been more amenable to advice from men than she has from her own sex . |
| 4 | She makes herself beautiful clothes — she 's fat , so she has to . |
| 5 | Situationist influence was more menacingly felt in France especially in the universities , although it has to be said that their influence upon the events of May 1968 has been exaggerated . |
| 6 | Misting plants with a hand-held sprayer is highly effective , although it has to be done regularly , preferably early in the day when the sun is n't shining on the leaves to avoid scorch . |
| 7 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 8 | Reference may be made to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 3 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) although it has to be said that that paragraph is not , in the author 's view , well drafted since it fails to indicate with sufficient clarity the difference between disclosing personal pecuniary interests ( failure to comply being a serious criminal offence ) and disclosing other interests ( which is simply a matter of prudence , but involves no breach of law ) . |
| 9 | With the growth of international lending in both domestic and foreign currencies most banks have increased their staff numbers and resources devoted to the assessment of country risk , although it has to be recognised that such a subject can never be reduced to an exact science . |
| 10 | Nostalgia aside , this guitar is eminently playable , although it has to be said the balance problem is a pain in the shoulder . |
| 11 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 12 | The idea that grandchildren , especially granddaughters , are a possible choice for the care of elderly people is the key element here , although it has to be seen in the light of the evidence ( which I reviewed above ) about who actually cares in practice . |
| 13 | At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support . |
| 14 | This population reached its peak in 1974 , although it has to be remembered that the ranks of the dependent could be greatly increased by even higher rates of unemployment . |
| 15 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 16 | It is extremely unlikely that there will be any difficulty — at a general election the returns to the writs will have identified the winners and , nowadays , the oath is unlikely to present any problems , although it has in the past . |
| 17 | The most apparent anomaly is that the Mediterranean , although it has in Cyprus something comparable to a mid-oceanic ridge , does not have the magnetic " striping " , with reversals , of other oceans . |
| 18 | The Nationwide Festival of Light is still in existence , although it has by now even outgrown its original name . |
| 19 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 20 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 21 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 22 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 23 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 24 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 26 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 27 | Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform . |
| 28 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 29 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 30 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |