Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand . |
| 2 | It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession . |
| 3 | Where tiger numbers have increased and the size of the reserve has stayed the same , there has been an overspill of tigers into areas of human occupation . |
| 4 | My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through . |
| 5 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 6 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 7 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 8 | A recent study has documented the many ways in which Conservative spokesmen have tried to manage the media and been conscious of the image of the government and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 9 | When social services departments were first established a number , perhaps a majority , incorporated some research capacity into their structure and in some departments this capacity has survived the many reorganizations , changes of policy and fluctuations of resources which have taken place since 1970 . |
| 10 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |
| 11 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 12 | Even though drug testing has attracted the most controversy , it is merely part of a broad movement in America toward a Darwinian worker-selection policy , which has been dubbed ‘ employment of the fittest . ’ |
| 13 | Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation . |
| 14 | Perhaps more than any other application of TL , sediment dating has fired the most interest . |
| 15 | The Draft Directive has adopted the same 50 mg/litre nitrate standard as the Drinking Water Directive and proposes the designation of ‘ zones ’ that are ‘ vulnerable ’ to being polluted with nitrate up to 50 mg/litre , either directly or indirectly . |
| 16 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 17 | ( c ) Extra-statutory concession D6 This concession happily can exempt the whole gain resulting from the disposal from a charge to capital gains tax even if the conveyance or transfer to the wife takes place 36 months after the husband has left the former matrimonial home . |
| 18 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 19 | But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse . |
| 20 | The study reported in this paper has adopted the latter approach and has explored one of the constant metabolic effects of ethanol on the pancreas — namely , increased lysosomal fragility , which may render the organ susceptible to autodigestion by facilitating contact between pancreatic digestive enzymes and lysosomal hydrolases . |
| 21 | More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing . |
| 22 | The South African Rugby Football Union has appointed the former Zimbabwe coach , Ian McIntosh , as national coach up to and including the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 23 | So much in Kirtana 's life has stayed the same . |
| 24 | And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here . |
| 25 | The Roman Catholic wake has served the same purposes . |
| 26 | But since 1987 the message has remained the same : ‘ Drinking and driving wrecks lives . ’ |
| 27 | But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient . |
| 28 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |
| 29 | Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant . |
| 30 | One in four men in this country has been a scout , but the camp site image has remained the same ; despite the fact that the short trousers and wide hats went out 20 years ago . |