Example sentences of "has got the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the hell can I calm down when that fucking idiot of a chef has got the entire kitchen staff making canapés when they should be preparing the buffet ? |
| 2 | The bourgeoisie , wherever it has got the upper hand , has put an end to all feudal , patriarchal , idyllic relations . |
| 3 | Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand . |
| 4 | Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand . |
| 5 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 6 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 7 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |
| 8 | P. W. Conolly , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ when parties quarrel and assault each other , it is no uncommon thing for the person who has got the best of the struggle to have an animal brought to the spot , and a charge of cattle stealing is preferred against the unfortunate man who has been assaulted . ’ |
| 9 | But your old coins wo n't go to waste , because Malcolm Campbell , a service engineer at Wood Group Engineering Services [ Peterhead ] Ltd has got the perfect solution . |
| 10 | And Madge has got the other set . |
| 11 | Has got the other |
| 12 | It has got the right profile . |
| 13 | Bruce has got the right track record and I feel confident he will get results . ’ |
| 14 | However , we can not even be sure that it has got the causal effects absolutely right . |
| 15 | But he has got the continental grammar sort of Italians , you know what they 're like . |
| 16 | Cornwall on the other hand , has been a , has got the appropriate objective status aimed at developing rural areas , that demonstrates the difference between the two . |
| 17 | Who else has got the largest record collection in the world ( well , OK , the BBC , but who apart from them ) ? |
| 18 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 19 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 20 | The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand . |
| 21 | According to Shaun , ‘ Yes Please ’ has got the same production on it as ‘ hardcore , rock smokin' ragga music — it 's more leather than loops , harder than the artist ’ , which , to be fair , at the moment does n't account for much . |
| 22 | So , after much jockeying and a few power lunches ( although all three contestants for the top spot — McDonald , Stewart , and Somerville — deny this ) Trevor has got the top job and a salary reckoned close to £125,000 a year . |
| 23 | But he has got the top job . |
| 24 | Daddy , has got the shortest ! |
| 25 | Val 's scheme has got the full backing of police in Gloucestershire and West Mercia . |
| 26 | It 's you well go and get a prize then my duck , Will has got the next one |
| 27 | And that one which eventually o originally was the worst hand has , has got the less er damage to it . |
| 28 | And it would be you know , which tin is the best value , which has got the most in and all this . |
| 29 | Although , although I would think that er Waldo Gregory has got the longest er time served in active service than probably er any other individual that went to Spain . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work . |