Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [pers pn] has " in BNC.

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1 The internationally respected journal Index on Censorship devoted the whole of its September 1988 issue to the question of liberty in Britain , because , as its opening article entitled ‘ Why Britain ? ’ put it , ‘ if freedom is diminished in the United Kingdom , where historically it has deep roots , it is potentially diminished everywhere ’ .
2 Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place .
3 She 's now able to walk around the house although outside she has to use a wheelchair .
4 We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith .
5 In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " .
6 The ratio of the capital inflows to the trade and commerce position has averaged 0.31 , although clearly it has also been quite volatile .
7 This is a major predator of small mammals in Europe ( Brown , 1976 ) , although today it has a limited distribution .
8 They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies .
9 The sexy Batman Returns star says that up until now she has been too busy chasing her career to take any time off .
10 Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year .
11 Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk .
12 So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism .
13 Up until now it has been difficult to have the best of both worlds when it comes to running one of the more expensive 4x4 off-road vehicles .
14 If even she has difficulty , the chances of me adopting a child are negligible , I suppose .
15 If indeed he has .
16 Although it goes against the grain to say this , the exercise is valuable , if indeed it has the effect of providing an accurate version of a distinguished person 's world view .
17 In most areas , only bulls with small ivory survive , a fact which bodes ill , genetically speaking , for the future of the species — if indeed it has any future in the wild at all .
18 Teachers , watch her , punish her body to save her soul — if indeed she has a soul , because this child …
19 Wild creatures , tamed or untamed , shall be regarded as property ; but a person can not steal a wild creature not tamed nor ordinarily kept in captivity , or the carcase of any such creature , unless either it has been reduced into possession by or on behalf of another person and possession of it has not since been lost or abandoned , or another person is in course of reducing it into possession ( s.4(4) ) .
20 Because suddenly he has me ( it 's mad , he kidnapped me ) laughing at him and pouring out his tea , as if I 'm his best girl-friend .
21 That rich mixture is likely to continue into the next election , because already it has been announced that the prospective parliamentary candidates for the Thanet , South seat in the next election will include a Mr. William Pitt and the leader of the Corrective party , Miss Whiplash .
22 One is the open cluster M11 , nicknamed the ‘ Wild Duck ’ because telescopically it has been likened to ducks in flight , and certainly it is fan-shaped ; it contains several hundreds of stars .
23 To begin with , its uses are somewhat limited by its bland taste — even enthusiasts agree that it needs to absorb flavours in a recipe such as a stir-fry or casserole to draw out its best qualities : though arguably it has slightly more taste and texture than tofu , tempeh and TVP .
24 Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved .
25 A quietness , a mystery , a peace , as only he has painted it . ’
26 Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses .
27 There is still real concern about the nature of the assessment process , though now it has to do more with its extreme complexity than with the simplistic naïveté of the earlier proposals , and with the fundamental differences of approach that are emerging between the examiners and the curriculum planners .
28 City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ .
29 Consultation is a form of limited participation in decision-making for subordinates , but there might be a tendency for a manager to appear to consult his subordinates when really he has made up his mind beforehand .
30 With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together .
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