Example sentences of "has [noun] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker has difficulty holding the road . |
| 2 | piched ( pinched ) : perhaps he has difficulty hearing the blend -nch . |
| 3 | " The government has plans to reverse the process by reforestation and investment in projects of sustained development . " |
| 4 | Folkman has plans to test the factor on tumours in animals . |
| 5 | The first three have all been exceptionally rewarding and I very much hope that ASV has plans to develop the series further in the near future . |
| 6 | AT&T says it has plans to expand the service to nine European countries in 1994 and plans to invest $350m over five years to deliver the services but may spend less if it can form ventures . |
| 7 | Has change had the effect not necessarily of reducing the amount of support , or of weakening the sense of obligation , but simply of changing its character ? . |
| 8 | When Jane has Roche inspect the hut , the wild man , with his black face and his pigtails , has gone , leaving behind him ‘ only a vague warm smell of old clothes , dead animals , grease and marijuana ’ . |
| 9 | The docu-drama then has Erik taking the girl , played by west Belfast actress Cheryl O'Dwyer , back to the eight and ninth centuries when the Vikings invaded and settled in Ireland . |
| 10 | He has gauges recording the depth and hence volume of water stored in every reservoir . |
| 11 | As regards these latter matters , it will be assumed for the remainder of the chapter , unless the contrary is stated , that a company has capacity to grant the security and that the directors were not acting in breach of their duty to the company or exceeding their authority . |
| 12 | ‘ Has Rodney solved the murder yet ? ’ asked Melissa , making little effort to keep the sarcasm from her voice . |
| 13 | Having taken account of the patients ' needs , has management distributed the workload as evenly as possible across the 24 hours for each patient area ? |
| 14 | Has Jane prepared the press release yet ? |
| 15 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 16 | Neither has IBM examined the impact on its own business of customers ' various choices . |
| 17 | Clearly there will be many standards skirmishes , but has IBM lost the standards war ? |
| 18 | They decide to go , too , but Frank has problems manoeuvring the car , whose tyres keep losing their grip . |
| 19 | It has HDS supplying the US Army with close to 60,000 colour and monochrome units over 30 months . |
| 20 | At a more modest level , we can say that legislation on restrictive practices has eliminated many cases of blatant anti-competitive behaviour and that the Director-General of Fair Trading now has powers to promote the provision of better consumer information ( e.g. the Trade Descriptions Act ) and to monitor general company behaviour . |
| 21 | In addition to these the Court of Appeal has powers to order the retrial of a case tried before a judge alone in the following cases : |
| 22 | The State has powers to alienate the rights of possessions to such " deserving grantees " ( the deserving grantees , according to Islamic law , are the landless , the warriors and others who serve the State , those who can actually cultivate the land , and those who have just embraced Islam ) who are able to put the land to productive use and to be of benefit to the society at large . |
| 23 | That if evolution was all about survival of the fittest , and if men are physically fitter in the sense of sporting prowess , which they unquestionable are , how has evolution produced the situation in which men have less life expectancy than women do from every point of view this far ? |
| 24 | Can Israel still be the people of God , or has God chosen the Philistines instead ? |
| 25 | 3.4 HAS NOZICK REFUTED THE SCEPTIC ? |
| 26 | He has authority to settle the dispute , for they agreed to abide by his decision . |
| 27 | Avoid the faceless approach and write to a named executive who has authority to approve the account for payment ; have the letter signed by the person whose printed name and title appears as the sender of the letter . |
| 28 | Todd argues that social anthropology — ‘ a Western science ’ ( p. 171 ) — has trouble accepting the existence of consanguineous marriages , because of its Christian roots , but he claims the existence of anomic structures in two geographical blocks-southeast Asia ( plus Madagascar ) and South American Indian cultures . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp says it has trouble estimating the number of copies of Windows NT it will sell , so what is the reasonable way to tell whether it succeeds ? |
| 30 | First off … has noone posted the Grimsby result ? ? |