Example sentences of "a [noun] has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
| 2 | Similar difficulties are likely to arise where a provision has more than one status ; eg where a procedure is treated , for some purposes , as also being a rule . |
| 3 | In Norfolk on one large site there have been three serious accidents involving falls from heights , and in Suffolk a case has just been sent to crown court after a man fell through an asbestos roof on a farm . |
| 4 | A case has also been made for using educational variables as an alternative . |
| 5 | . Absolute er Changed a bit has n't it since er Well the lines have gone , the signal box and er and so on . |
| 6 | I mean saying things like a successor has already been identified . |
| 7 | moved and seconded must be accepted by the Chairman , unless it is frivolous or illegal , or covers the same ground as a motion on which a decision has already been taken in the same meeting . |
| 8 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 9 | The Government has denied a decision has already been taken to close Rosyth , Scotland 's biggest employer with 4,000 workers , and an announcement is expected next month . |
| 10 | No date for a decision has yet been made but the council hopes to hear in the near future . |
| 11 | Though solidly on record as a pro-choice champion , the President recently said that a decision has n't been made about abortion services . |
| 12 | A decision has still to be taken on whether to carry out further research on detailed conservation plans and to consult the Tsimshian indians , who hunt and fish in the area . |
| 13 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 14 | However , if a sentence has only just been heard , subjects should be able to tell the difference between that sentence and all other sentences — even sentences which mean the same . |
| 15 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 16 | That man with a beard has just had a breakdown in London 's Burning . |
| 17 | The sculptural group for which it was originally intended as a pedestal has now gone and the proportion of the arch appears too tall and narrow . |
| 18 | The anatomy of Aristodikos and the Kritian boy alike is simplified from nature , not quite in the same way , but in both natural forms are perfectly understood ; only Aristodikos stands ( like Euthydikos 's kore ) in the formal way a statue has always stood , the other relaxed as a boy might actually stand . |
| 19 | The size of these advances will vary , but if a writer has already several hit singles in his or her catalogue the advance may be very sizeable . |
| 20 | But because the correspondence between graphological and phonological features is far from precise , it can not be said that a writer has actually represented the speech style of a character . |
| 21 | A heart has just become available for transplant , with a patient waiting for it , so they want to hold blood for that , and for the weekend , when they 're more likely to need it for trauma cases . |
| 22 | And the , the son-in-law 's got a , a computer has n't he ? |
| 23 | For instance , whilst a person may be concerned about the length of notation , this is not usually important to a computer ; moreover , a computer has little use for mnemonics ( it does not forget ! ) . |
| 24 | A chairman has yet to be appointed following the resignation of Dick Corden last week . |
| 25 | A contract has also been let for the production by computer-aided design ( CAD ) of record drawings for the George IV Bridge and Lawnmarket Buildings , and the Sighthill Bindery . |
| 26 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , no single definition of a singularity has yet been found which is applicable to all situations . |
| 28 | A buyer has yet to be announced for Harwich , where SeaCo recently announced proposals for a £200million industrial , leisure and residential development . |
| 29 | A buyer has already emerged with a sale agreement being reached in November . |
| 30 | If a buyer has only one option — to buy from the seller in question — then that seller is in a powerful position . |