Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
| 2 | Clearly it is the fate of the ark that has provoked the name Ichabod , and that has led to her death , just as it killed her father-in-law . |
| 3 | And he has given the club back its pride , passion , and the kind of penetrative football that has awoken the North East . |
| 4 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 5 | As part of a comprehensive training programme that has touched the Le Havre company from top to toe , special emphasis has been given to improving motivation . |
| 6 | The drought has its origins in a persistent pattern of atmospheric circulation that has affected the whole of the southern hemisphere , bringing drought also to South Africa and parts of South America , and probably related to the return of El Nino , a surge of warm ocean water off the western seaboard of South America ( see box ) . |
| 7 | Why the nights could not have been alternated is anyone 's guess but is symptomatic of the confusion that has dogged the competition — due in part to Linfield and Bangor 's involvement in European preliminary rounds . |
| 8 | With headaches the pain will almost always disappear ( while I am working on them ) as soon as they release the tension that has caused the pain . |
| 9 | In recent weeks , however , it has been the sudden rise in the number of Soviet Jews that has alarmed the authorities . |
| 10 | The miss rule that has dogged the game all season struck again in the third . |
| 11 | Should audits be expected to detect every fraud ? ’ that we will have any chance of dealing with the expectations gap that has surrounded the audit . |
| 12 | In every example they offer , it is competitive egoism that has subverted the ideal of objectivity — from instances of brazen cheating to the simple laxity with which papers are refereed , grants awarded , and experiments checked — or left unchecked . |
| 13 | Some are useful , like the horse wanting our approval ; some may be amusing , like the show horse that has learnt the delights of sandwiches and Coca Cola ; and some are harmful , or annoying , which include bad behavioural habits . |
| 14 | He 's converted to their religion and has adopted the name , Spotted Eagle . |
| 15 | But the IMS rule has done away with this bonus and has rated the foretriangle and the mainsail area equally , leaving the rig configuration to the designer . |
| 16 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 17 | Although only halfway through her first effort ( based , oh dear , on a dream ) she already has an agent and has made the shortlist of a first-time fiction writers ' competition , the Ian St James Awards , for a story drawn from the book . |
| 18 | However unorthodox our dual role on the cutters might seem to professionals it works out in practice and has stood the test of time . |
| 19 | Phillips is reportedly in good condition and has renounced the drugs and alcohol that caused his cirrhosis . |
| 20 | Hoheria is another mild-frost-hardy large shrub or small tree which is smothered in white blossom in mid-summer and has survived the winds in my Cornish garden . |
| 21 | It has given parents and teachers much more responsibility for running their own schools and has freed the schools from the dead hand of local education bureaucracy in many places . |
| 22 | Suppose the worker finds the young boy has reached the stage of potency but has lost the capacity to ejaculate ? |
| 23 | There has been no area , there 's been no need or entitlement that has escaped the Thatcher and the Majorite acts . |
| 24 | In some cases referral is essential , but this chapter will show that for many the CAB is developing specialist in-depth expertise that has turned the tables such that the CAB is now becoming the agency to whom clients are referred . |
| 25 | William Gibson , author of the cyberpunk fiction that has mirrored the development of VR , is not too impressed by what he sees as our VR future . |
| 26 | The VINNY JONES story that has rocked the soccer world |
| 27 | Mike Gunnell finds a Scottish brewery that has bucked the trend to diesel away from petrol |
| 28 | The charter is part of a continuing modernisation of the distribution division that has included the reorganisation of the previous five administration regions into four . |
| 29 | ‘ It is the lack of a similar competitive structure in clubs that has hampered the youth development of tennis in this country ’ , he explains . |
| 30 | Turner 's Slave Ship which was so highly praised by Ruskin , shows faithfully the horror and evil of that traffic and it is the emotion , not the technique that has given the painting its immortality . |