Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
2 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
3 | The convention of the Handelian opera seria has corroded so that today we find it frigid entertainment , but was it ever a satisfactory dramatic form , with its succession of da capo arias , its wastelands of recitative , and its statuesque indifference to tension , beyond conspiracy and complication ? |
4 | But , equally , Labour has to state clearly that the productive economy is more important that monetary . |
5 | It must be like an Ord 14 affidavit in the sense that it has to be sworn by the plaintiff or someone authorised to do so ( eg his solicitor or legal executive ) and if it is sworn by someone other than the plaintiff , the affidavit has to state specifically that the deponent is duly authorised by the plaintiff to make the affidavit on his behalf . |
6 | Nanno Marinatos ( 1984 ) has argued persuasively that windows of appearance were used in Minoan rites at Akrotiri on Thera , so it is very likely indeed that they were used in Crete itself . |
7 | In a recent analysis building upon psycholinguistic studies , A. Berlin has argued persuasively that pairing of words is a manifestation of a common linguistic phenomenon of word association.a Two principal types of word associates can be denominated paradigmatic ( e.g. good-bad , father-mother , descend ascend ) and syntagmatic ( Zion Jerusalem , mercy-truth , heavens-earth ( as a merismus ) ) . |
8 | Dawkins ( 1976 , 1978 ) has argued strongly that considering the individual animal as the unit of selection is a form of shorthand for what is actually selected down the generations is the gene , or over short time spans , groups of associated genes . |
9 | In the past , Kingfisher has argued cogently that tipping the bargaining balance towards the electrical retailer and away from the manufacturers would benefit consumers . |
10 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
11 | The British Government in particular has argued consistently that the new applicants should be admitted with a minimum of delay . |
12 | The full extent of marital breakdown is of course very hard to assess , and Roderick Phillips has argued convincingly that while divorce might breed divorce , it does not necessarily breed marital breakdown . ’ |
13 | Macpherson has argued convincingly that it was in the context of just such a society that the case For a representative democracy was initially accepted , first as a logical requirement to protect acquisitive , self-interested and conflicting individuals ( from rapacious governments and from one another ) and second to establish and nurture a free market economy ( MacPherson , 1977 ) . |
14 | Humphrey ( 1976 ) has argued convincingly that animals are in many ways over-equipped for the inanimate environment , but the environment provided by other animals ( particularly clever ones ) is especially complex , difficult to predict and difficult to control . |
15 | More recently Curtis Price has argued convincingly that ‘ the 1693 production was almost certainly acted without [ Q1692 's ] first scene ’ . |
16 | Oskar Lafontaine , the SPD leader in the Saarland , has argued vociferously that a modern mass party like the SPD could not afford to have its policies confined to the narrow interests of employed industrial workers . |
17 | He has said repeatedly that he will serve out his term , but the pressures on him to quit early are expected to grow after next Sunday 's vote . |
18 | The prime minister , Chandra Shekhar , has said repeatedly that he wants a political solution . |
19 | He has said repeatedly that the club is not for sale . |
20 | He has said bitterly that he was overlooked by the Nobel committee . |
21 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
22 | One senior State Department official has said privately that West European countries treat East European ones with ‘ contempt ’ . |
23 | Mr Major has said privately that he does not believe it is necessary to follow the Taylor recommendations to the letter , but he will insist that the changes are made for First and Second Division clubs . |
24 | ‘ The Director-General has said recently that he does n't foresee any of the BBC orchestras being either privatised or abolished . |
25 | In a move reminiscent of what Microsoft is doing with NT and Unix System Labs with Destiny , IBM has said recently that it is dividing both AIX and OS/2 into client and server versions and wants them to share as much infrastructure as possible . |
26 | Second , because the president of the Bundesbank , Karl Otto Pohl , has said publicly that the DM needs revaluing against the currencies of high-inflation countries , of which Britain is the leader . |
27 | He remains a bystander on the edge of God 's purposes , and one who has suffered grievously that those purposes might go forward . |
28 | But Bingham has hinted recently that he 's pushing for a ‘ younger , more mobile midfield ’ — and that will certainly be needed against the run-all-day Republic quartet of Townsend , Keane , Houghton and Staunton . |
29 | A survey by NCC has revealed clearly that all of the woodland could regenerate itself naturally if sheep grazing was prevented or substantially reduced ; the cost of fencing for this purpose can be as much as £3,500-£8,000 for a 20 hectare wood depending on its shape and the terrain encountered , making the costs often prohibitive . |
30 | He has decided now that horses are the thing . |