Example sentences of "[adv] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all that to wait for , rarely has the old stockmarket adage to ‘ sell in May and go away ’ been more apposite . |
| 2 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 3 | This is in stark contrast to the position in the United States , where Congress alone has the formal power to declare war and the Senate 's consent is necessary for the ratification of treaties and the appointment of federal public officers . |
| 4 | So has the parallel progress of women 's education , giving them at least in theory the same job opportunities as men . |
| 5 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 6 | So has the ex-Florence Nightingale found her ideal job or will she go back to looking after the sick ? |
| 7 | For although the Tory vote has fallen since then , so has the Liberal Democrats ' . |
| 8 | The ships have gone and so has the Black Rat , but the opportunist Brown Rat remains a threat ashore . |
| 9 | So has the common assumption that retirement from paid employment is ‘ far less drastic ’ for women than for men . |
| 10 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 11 | Not only has the Labour party not realised that GCSE results at 16 in Labour-controlled authorities are some of the worst , but it has learnt nothing — it still opposes standardised testing from the age of seven . |
| 12 | However , the numbers of divorces could be slightly misleading in that , not only has the general population risen in numbers , but marriage itself is more popular , as we saw earlier in this chapter . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that not only has the Conservative party demonstrated that it is willing to spend a greater proportion of gross national product , but , by continuing to expand our economy , we have surpassed the Labour party bid at the 1987 election — when it said that it would increase spending on the national health service by 3 per cent . |
| 14 | Not only has the British government and its agencies borrowed less in recent years than other European governments , it is also the case that , until recently , the private bond market was narrow . |
| 15 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 16 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 17 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 18 | This important volume , subsequently republished in parts , did not perhaps have the immediate effect that might have been expected . |
| 19 | It must be remembered that a child with an IQ of 50 may only have the mental age of nine when they leave school , although their social abilities may be reasonably comparable with their actual age . |
| 20 | If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years . |
| 21 | The collector must obviously have the Revised Version of 1881–95 , and some other notable attempts ( not , in everyone 's view , attended with much success ) to improve on the Authorised Version . |
| 22 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 23 | There are several related techniques , all having the common feature that some combination of the inputs ( resources consumed ) by health care programmes are compared with some combination of the outputs ( improvements in health obtained ) . |
| 24 | ‘ From a practical point of view , they are still dependent on their company for career progression and can not have the independence an external auditor would have nor would they necessarily have the technical expertise if they conducted a statutory audit only once a year . ’ |
| 25 | A similar conception , formulated in a more abstract manner , prevails in the work of the ‘ structuralist ’ Marxists ; notably in Poulantzas ' ( 1968 ) study of the capitalist state , where the object of enquiry — politics in capitalist social formations — is constituted by reference to a general concept of ‘ mode of production ’ , defined as being composed of different levels ( economic , political , ideological and theoretical ) which form a complex whole determined , in the last instance , by the economic level , but in which the economic level does not necessarily have the dominant role . |
| 26 | He then turned to the Elixir of Life , only to have the magic formula stolen again , this time by a woman . |
| 27 | They 're also supremely naive if they do n't think at some point in the future that MCA will hike out a similar compilation to the one Phonogram just have … that 's always assuming that they sort themselves out enough to have the required amount of hits . |
| 28 | I hope , Mr. Deputy Speaker , that you will be fortunate enough to have the Authorised Version , which contains the passage : ’ There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . ’ |
| 29 | It then supplements the pre-emption thesis by showing that we should be concerned not merely to have the proper attitude to those in authority over us , but also to those in authority over others . |
| 30 | She stood motionless , wondering what he was about to do , and as he moved closer she suddenly had the ridiculous impression he was going to kiss her . |