Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood-tests are now available to tell whether someone has had German measles in the past , and nobody in their right mind would suggest that such a positive blood test indicated the presence of active German measles long after the patient had recovered from the infection . |
| 2 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | Our EGRESS computer model , which has received widespread media attention , is a world leader in assessing the safety of people in complex structures . |
| 4 | Polling was cancelled in some villages because all their inhabitants had fled the escalating violence , which has killed 140 people in five months . |
| 5 | An important new factor which has upset many people 's sums over the past couple of years has been the state of the property market . |
| 6 | I would be interested to hear from anyone who has developed other means of communicating with people with learning difficulties . |
| 7 | But if you do get hooked — and if you are the kind of smart-suited city type who has driven ordinary folk off this island — well , that is your affair . |
| 8 | And she has adapted other people 's work : her dramatisation of Anne Fine 's Goggle-Eyes is currently showing on BBC2 . |
| 9 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 10 | And then she said , when you said , well you wo they wo n't , I said , everyone knows because she said , by the time we has taken those people home , it would have been dark . |
| 11 | In the course of his research , he has discovered missing works and found documentary photographs recording paintings and objects which have been lost or destroyed . |
| 12 | Well he has done other people 's . |
| 13 | He has signed 11,000 sq ft in Norex Court , owned by Laser 1989 Enterprise Zone Trust . |
| 14 | He has to know these people , to socialise with them . |
| 15 | Over the past year he has had eight sheep , one suckle-calf and a ram bitten by adders : the ram died . |
| 16 | Peter Laslett , for instance , has attempted to show that the average household size from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century was 4.75 persons ( that is , always ‘ nuclear ’ ) , and he has used this data to challenge the notion that the nuclear model is a product of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 17 | He has published many works on Scottish architecture and has contributed to a variety of publications including the Architectural Review , Country Life , the Architects ' Journal and the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 18 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 19 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
| 20 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 21 | Such confusion has , on one hand , led many scientists and doctors to reject acupuncture as a foreign superstition , while on the other it has led many people , not trained in science , to react by rejecting modern biomedical science as being blinkered and dogmatic . |
| 22 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | It has sold some $3 billion of junk bonds . |
| 24 | It has sold another £28m of assets and has now pulled in £70m from disposals since it took over the Brookmount property group in August . |
| 25 | It has changed most people 's lives . |
| 26 | Later on in this chapter you will see how it has helped specific people in their lives , but first I would like to show how the technique can help some of the more common ailments that many people suffer today . |
| 27 | In that way it has used economic means to promote the central political objective of ’ ever closer union among the people of Europe ’ . |
| 28 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |