Example sentences of "has [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Code is very persuasive for a number of reasons : ( 1 ) Any company listed on the London Stock Exchange which does not comply with the Code can have its listing suspended or withdrawn ( although the Panel has rarely had to use this sanction and it can have the effect of injuring innocent shareholders ) . |
| 2 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 3 | Psychology has rarely tried to correct this bias . |
| 4 | The publishing and printing house has since grown to become self-financing , with a staff of 214 employees and an output of over 850 titles a year . |
| 5 | The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world . |
| 6 | The Commission has long wished to see greater industrial cooperation across frontiers . |
| 7 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 8 | Research so far has only begun to offer sociological or psychological analyses which would enable us to develop typologies of carers and those cared for . |
| 9 | The briefing disclosed that Lolani Koko , who was named in the New Zealand squad for the Hong Kong Sevens , has apparently decided to stay loyal to Western Samoa . |
| 10 | Jack is thought to be the GHOST of some poor manacled prisoner who died in a dungeon and has henceforth sought to torment other humans . |
| 11 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 12 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 13 | Despite the garbled report in The Engineer , Trippier has not tried to impose any tighter deadline than 31 December 1995 for a total ban — which would be almost impossible for UK industry to meet . |
| 14 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 15 | But Washington has not admitted using new types of anti-personnel weapons , although evidence indicates that it did . |
| 16 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 17 | I hope also that British Coal has not helped to produce some of the briefs that we have heard in previous coal debates . |
| 18 | So far it has not managed to find suitable grounds big enough to take four lawns which would make it eligible to become a competition centre . |
| 19 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 20 | The Colston Research Society , thanks to its President , Moger Woolley , has generously decided to use some of its funds to support the Campaign for Resource . |
| 21 | The French Embassy in Britain has generously offered to give some financial assistance to French course participants . |
| 22 | Government policy has signally failed to do this and the result is a profession which is demoralised by its responibility to the children , to parents , and to a host of bodies and organisations , all of whom want their ‘ say ’ . |
| 23 | The geographical patterning of the subsequent ‘ national ’ economic recovery has largely served to reinforce this dichotomy . |
| 24 | MODEL turned actress Shebah Ronay , 20-year-old daughter of fashion designer Edina Ronay , has just completed shooting two episodes of the Thames TV series Covington Cross . |
| 25 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 26 | Sometimes a feature of the Constitution is discerned as such only at the time when it has just ceased to have much relevance . |
| 27 | But the biggest scam of all is run by the Government , which has somehow managed to harness young energy , ambition and initiative without ever giving it a real chance to shine through . |
| 28 | Despite his avowed slobdom , Peter FitzSimons has somehow managed to play seven rugby union Tests for Australia . |
| 29 | In Fig. 3 the oldest branch ( c ) will soon have to be cut right back to the vine stump and it can be seen that the vigneron tending this vine has already decided to cultivate another branch ( b ) in preparation . |
| 30 | The government has already decided to bring special health authorities into the internal market . |