Example sentences of "[adv] have the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | The ships have gone and so has the Black Rat , but the opportunist Brown Rat remains a threat ashore . |
| 7 | So has the common assumption that retirement from paid employment is ‘ far less drastic ’ for women than for men . |
| 8 | ‘ The Marriott not only has the best service in town , but the best business facilities as well , ’ commented Travel Agent Magazine . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 16 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 17 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 18 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 19 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 20 | But then we 've always had a spare bedroom have n't we , only having the one child . |
| 21 | This important volume , subsequently republished in parts , did not perhaps have the immediate effect that might have been expected . |
| 22 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 23 | Not only does it apparently have the oldest version of the entry for 1020 ( see above ) , but under 1018 it has the death of an Abingdon abbot which is not in C. Other material now in D and E was probably only added after the Abingdon chronicle reached Canterbury . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Do you only have the one child ? ’ |
| 26 | If you do the chances are good that you will only have the same situation all over again or probably even worse . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 29 | As [ an ] example of such measures , all having the same effect — of keeping subjects perpetually at work and in poverty — we may mention the pyramids of Egypt … |
| 30 | Here and there one may find a row of houses all having the same supply , but very often two adjacent houses are supplied differently . |