Example sentences of "that [noun] has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that change has not been achieved as rapidly as desired , and to a large extent it is for this reason . |
| 2 | But many commentators have long regarded synergy as a will-o'-the-wisp , arguing for the strategy of critical mass in selected global markets that ICI has belatedly adopted . |
| 3 | I am as surprised as anyone to learn that Colin has now signed for current Football League champions Leeds United . |
| 4 | I may no longer be the best thing that Limerick has yet produced . |
| 5 | They point out that Parliament has yet to approve the changes which would allow it to go ahead . |
| 6 | Having regard to the fact that Parliament has not abolished the privilege against self-incrimination Mr. Tully would be entitled to rely on that privilege if but only if and so far as compliance with the order of Buckley J. would provide evidence against him in a criminal trial . |
| 7 | The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee and its ‘ spies ’ ( officials of the National Audit Office ) make sure that money is not spent on purposes and in amounts that Parliament has not authorised . |
| 8 | Aqib predictably bounced him , and the first over he faced encapsulated all that Gower has ever stood for : an edge ( somehow made to seem unregretted ) and an exquisite cover-drive ; beaten again , and a controlled turn to leg for two . |
| 9 | Blisters are a sign that moisture has either got below the felt or that the felt was laid on a damp surface . |
| 10 | At first glance it appears that Braudel has merely hit on a convenient fashion of dividing up the past , to bring it under control and make it easier for historians to encompass . |
| 11 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 12 | Cadman , whose company is backed by overseas investors and a bank of ‘ international repute ’ , claims that money has not yet figured in the talks and declines to discuss the size of the FTC bid . |
| 13 | It is obvious that Alison has not recovered in any sense , and is just managing to keep out of hospital by maintaining her weight at a low but not life-threatening level . |
| 14 | Our latest survey of school capacity shows that Wolverhampton has nearly 12,000 surplus places . |
| 15 | But it is fair to say that provision has comprehensively failed to grow in line with need and , in some respects , has worsened . |
| 16 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 17 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 18 | And , as Lord Templeman has pointed out , that privilege has recently been the subject of an illuminating discussion by my noble and learned friend , Lord Mustill in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Smith [ 1992 ] 3 W.L.R. 66 . |
| 19 | Like him , we are disappointed that Germany has not yet signed up and we hope that it finally will . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the one existing example of convergence in Europe is the convergence of west Germany and east Germany , which has resulted in the highest inflation and interest rates that Germany has ever had , and which is costing Britain at least 1.5 per cent . |
| 21 | ‘ I seem to remember that excuse has already been used by the man who got the human race thrown out of Eden . ’ |
| 22 | But I am concerned for the three trees that David has just mentioned being removed . |
| 23 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 24 | Ollero asserts that TransTools has not involved itself in the price war . |
| 25 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 26 | Moreover , for Diuma to have been consecrated bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians ( assuming that Bede has not made an error here ) , while Penda remained a heathen , must have been tantamount to treating Penda 's territory as a northern Anglian sphere of influence . |
| 27 | Spooky , but somehow the world seems kinda empty without his eccentric personality to relive the tedium that rock has since slid into . |
| 28 | It can not be denied that rock has always been the province of men , even if they have often aped the female . |
| 29 | Sadly , his agent , James Kirkman , fends off the futile inquirer with the enthusiasm of a royal bodyguard and indignantly informs you that Freud has only ever painted ‘ family and friends ’ . |
| 30 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |