Example sentences of "something [that] has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is something that has intrigued thousands of viewers . |
| 2 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 3 | Clearly , behind the appeals for calm has been the fear that the army is now threatened by disintegration , something that has become evident in increasingly frank discussions . |
| 4 | I refer to opera-going : something that has become not merely trendy but deep-rootedly popular . |
| 5 | Such disdain for something that has become almost universal in the first-class game clearly helps in his psychological battle with the bowlers ; disdain is , in fact , an important part of his armoury , combining with his might and skill to cement his authority . |
| 6 | RE need no longer be undertaken with the intention of smartening up , or making relevant , something that has become jaded through over-familiarity . |
| 7 | For example ‘ Something that has become old-fashioned ’ . |
| 8 | Similarly , Wolin makes explicit the relationship between group bargaining and the exclusion of particular groups by arguing that since legitimacy is something that has become associated with groups , public authority has no source of power peculiarly its own' . |
| 9 | ‘ When I die , put me near something that has loved the light , and had the sky above it always . ' ’ |
| 10 | I feel they are rooted in something that has to do with culture , with a sense of history , a sense of past , a sense of tradition . |
| 11 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 12 | That is technical failure , something that has gone wrong , a monumental cock-up . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this is not something that has arisen in the past few days , but has been carefully negotiated by the Government over many weeks ? |
| 14 | I just , I tell you what , I , I know it sounds nasty , but I am glad that Penny is some way has had something that has made her realised what that place was all about . |
| 15 | ‘ This is something that has to happen , Jessamy . ’ |
| 16 | I accept it as part of something that has to happen . |
| 17 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 18 | It looks , though , as if it will be another step towards the end of something that has had its day . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ This is not something that has happened before . |
| 20 | It 's , they are not actually responsible for it , I do n't think , but something that has happened that , that has caused somebody to see food in a different manner . |
| 21 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 22 | If , for example , a shy child has been very quiet in what is supposed to be a television interview , a positive way of dealing with it is to acknowledge it as something that has happened within the dramatic fiction : " Most of us would get very nervous being interviewed for TV ; I know I would . |
| 23 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 24 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 25 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 26 | The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire . |
| 27 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 28 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |