Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole . |
| 4 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 5 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 6 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 7 | Britain has seen barely a score , worth £2.1 billion ( $3.6 billion ) . |
| 8 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 9 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 10 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 11 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 12 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 13 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 14 | Jesus has been travelling around and has got quite a reputation from his preaching and healing exploits . |
| 15 | And I mean the actual the U K market those in those areas is quite developed and has got quite a reputation but obviously it has got to be able to develop develop and adapt accordingly over time . |
| 16 | I think this has got quite a bit of vodka in it . ’ |
| 17 | That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god . |
| 18 | Chris has got quite a lot of , he 's got Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road . |
| 19 | If the user has requested only a subset the user will be prompted to enter a start and end module name . |
| 20 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) has raised again a question that he put in Committee about publication of the prices obtained for the subsidiaries . |
| 21 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 22 | He has played only a handful of games since breaking down with back trouble in St Lucia while touring his native West Indies with England in 1990 . |
| 23 | It is just too important a match to blood a player , who upto now has played only a handful of internationals . |
| 24 | Plenty of work , perhaps , but the serious student will find it intensely rewarding , and the newcomer may be encouraged to explore this difficult field ; he will certainly be well armed against the problems once he has digested even a fraction of the mountain of information and enthusiasm contained therein . |
| 25 | This has no practical purpose whatsoever but has become rather a measure of ability — if you can duck gybe it is an indication that you must be quite good . |
| 26 | President Reagan is probably right in thinking that private companies could introduce innovations to what has become rather a moribund operation . |
| 27 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 28 | The demand for central direction , then , partly as we have seen , a demand that the Local Education Authorities should be kept in their place , has become also a demand for a particular style of rigorous , and rigorously examined , curriculum . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , the programmers managed to cram all the action into a single load ; this has become quite a rarity these days , particularly where tie-ins are concerned . |
| 30 | Over the years the exchange of engines between the 15″ gauge railways in England has become quite a feature of the little railway scene . |