Example sentences of "a [noun sg] has [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 2 | It would be niggling to say that where a writer has used assistants his data cease to be primary , but it would also be foolish to ignore the fact that the more people there are involved in a project , the more opportunities there are for errors to creep in . |
| 3 | Paulos is admirable on the nature of coincidence — the inevitability of improbable events — on the logic of gambling in its various forms from coin-tossing to the Stock Exchange ; the Gambler 's Fallacy ( the belief that when a coin has landed heads several times over , there is an increased probability that tails will turn up on the next throw ) ; Pascal 's wager ; Condorcet 's paradox ; the prisoner 's dilemma . |
| 4 | A COMPUTER has sent bills for 0.00p to Severn-Trent water users in the Midlands — threatening to sue if they do n't pay up . |
| 5 | It is necessary to assume that , once a logogen has reached threshold , its activation level must decay away rapidly . |
| 6 | A SCIENTIST has dispelled fears that equipment to monitor air quality was being wrongly sited in Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | It is a recognition that a scientist has attained eminence within his or her research area , without necessarily undertaking formal supervised university research , and the thesis presented for the award of this degree generally consists of a review of the author 's research , together with a collection of published papers . |
| 8 | If a settlement has accumulated income , any capital sums paid to the settlor or his spouse directly or indirectly or through a connected company may be taxed as income to the extent that the trust has accumulated income . |
| 9 | The ‘ force ’ facility may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and has then passed it on to someone else . |
| 10 | This is done using option 3.8.0 , Force User to Accept SPR , and may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and then wishes to pass it to someone else . |
| 11 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |
| 12 | However , despite these encouraging signs , LASMO — in common with all companies in the oil industry — continues to suffer from low oil prices and the world recession , and as a result has announced economies to help safeguard its long-term position . |
| 13 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 14 | There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered . |
| 15 | To survive , a performer has to establish dominance within twenty seconds , and already I could feel the pack instinct rising in them . |
| 16 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 17 | They assume a jurisdiction to declare whether a marriage has taken place or not , whether there is any impediment which makes it void or voidable . |
| 18 | But if you discover that a child has tried solvents , what can you do ? |
| 19 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 20 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 21 | A village has paid tribute to two American airmen who died when their jet crashed just after take off . |
| 22 | Unless the gutter has split or cracked , it is most likely that either the gutter ( or downpipe ) is blocked and needs clearing ( page 78 ) or that a bracket has given way and the gutter is sagging . |
| 23 | If you are not already collecting these for some good cause a teacher has drawn attention to the following Association which will be glad to receive them ‘ British Kidney Patients Association ’ , Bordon , Hampshire . |
| 24 | A coroner has recorded verdicts of accidental death on a family of three killed when their car crashed head on into a tanker . |
| 25 | A coroner has warned television programmers to be more careful following the deaths of 3 young brothers trapped in a freezer . |
| 26 | A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague . |
| 27 | The issue was referred up to Joint Industrial Council level and a meeting has taken place under the Chairmanship of Mr. Peter Smith , Q.C . |
| 28 | To his list we would add that authors should have the right of reply when a journal has published correspondence critical of their publication . |
| 29 | He stops short of hoping Grobbelaar makes one of his increasingly frequent mistakes tomorrow , but Knight is professional enough to know that a team has to take advantage of any breaks that come their way . |
| 30 | The policy refers to unavoidable cancellation and does not apply to the likes of a broken engagement or where a Claimant has changed jobs and is unable to get the same holiday dates . |