Example sentences of "has [adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission solicited proposals from North American museums and received three positive responses : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York reaffirmed interest in becoming a full collaborator ( it was the Guggenheim 's current director , Thomas Krens , who conceived of MASSMoCA in the mid-1980s while director of the nearby Williams College Art Museum ; he has since dissociated himself to avoid conflict of interest ) ; the ICA Boston proposed developing shared programs , mainly exhibitions ; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto offered to place a single large installation on long-term loan . |
| 2 | She has since declared herself bankrupt and has not paid anything towards damages or Dr Smith 's costs . |
| 3 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 4 | Miss Dors , who has since shown herself to be a capable character actress , remembers her bubble-bathing days as a cushion for male dreams with amused tolerance : |
| 5 | The German occupation proved useful in one respect , however : it spurred the formation of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne ( CIVC ) , an organisation which has since established itself as the most successful of its type in France . |
| 6 | It has continued to grow and expand and has since established itself as a permanent base for experimentation with education in health based on Primary Health Care principles . |
| 7 | Since then , Rolls-Royce Motors , the new public company formed two years later from the ashes of the parent group , has successfully re-established itself in its own rarefied niche at the top of the world 's luxury car market . |
| 8 | The government of the GDR has expressly associated itself with this statement … |
| 9 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 10 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 11 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 12 | The vague beige word that has naturally attached itself to Mr Major is ‘ nice ’ . |
| 13 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 14 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 15 | Rugby has long prided itself on its image as a players ' game and any ‘ play to entertain ’ push could only accelerate the drift towards professionalism . |
| 16 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 17 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |
| 18 | This points the way to the culturalist approach to which Hirsch has elsewhere shown himself sympathetic . |
| 19 | The sociological movement in jurisprudence , the movement for pragmatism as a philosophy of law , the movement for the adjustment of principles and doctrines to the human conditions they are to govern rather than to assumed first principles , the movement for putting the human factor in the central place and relegating logic to its true position as an instrument , has scarcely shown itself as yet in America . |
| 20 | And with Paul Ince , Darren Ferguson and Ryan Giggs all available again , Fergie is also boosted by the fact that Danny Wallace has finally rid himself of his hang-ups . |
| 21 | She has just given herself to him , and now she is regretting it . |
| 22 | DAVID Capper , the BBC Radio Ulster reporter with one of the best-known voices on the air , has just clinched himself a fantastic new job . |
| 23 | Grace Jones has just declared herself bankrupt in New York . |
| 24 | This is how Chris Symonds earns his sporting glory … riding in the british bobsleigh team … he 's the number two man … and has just won himself a gold medal in the world cup competition … this weekend he competes in the world championships … he 's been back home to get ready to train for his rollercoaster ride on ice … |
| 25 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 26 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 27 | Part of England 's concern is that Gooch has already declared himself unavailable for next winter 's tour of West Indies . |
| 28 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
| 29 | Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out . |
| 30 | Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out . |