Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail has decided to have a dedicated , high-quality link between the stations and is examining a number of options effectively to make Euston part of the international terminal complex . |
| 2 | Since the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act , which made this possible , CPRW has continued to take a keen interest in ensuring that the protection afforded by this designation is effectively applied , especially in the three National Parks of Wales . |
| 3 | Rather more officially , Radio Moscow has started to sell a faxed information service of its own , using leased Japanese equipment . |
| 4 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 5 | And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past . |
| 6 | And this year the association has tried to make a clean break from the past . |
| 7 | Labour has failed to build a popular consensus around educational reform and was trumped by Ashdown 's penny on income tax . |
| 8 | MIND has continued to play a strong public role in defending the civil liberties and rights to treatment and care of all mentally disordered people , and it has been particularly successful in supporting individuals who have been maltreated and neglected by the mental health service system . |
| 9 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 10 | A priest has threatened to launch a private prosecution against the doctor who treated the Hillsborough coma victim , Tony Bland , who died after his life-support machine was legally switched-off . |
| 11 | STOKE forward Wayne Biggins has refused to sign a new contract unless he gets an immediate pay rise . |
| 12 | Where the applicant has failed to attend a previous hearing the court may refuse to hear his renewed application until he has paid the previous costs thrown away , which the court may assess for that purpose ( Thames Investments & Securities plc v Benjamin [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1381 ) . |
| 13 | Mr Shekhar has managed to avoid a diplomatic row with America by quietly persuading President Bush to withdraw his request for permission . |
| 14 | Sinclair Research has promised to produce a small magnetic storage unit for its Spectrum computer . |
| 15 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 16 | Conventional vetinary medicine failed to help the bird , but since undergoing a course of acupuncture at a surgery in Stroud , the Swan has begun to make a remarkable recovery . |
| 17 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 18 | As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for . |
| 19 | One fraction of the team has tried to sustain a developmental role-going about establishing play schemes and mobilising parent support groups . |
| 20 | Republicanism has failed to become a serious issue in twentieth-century politics . |
| 21 | This device has served to draw a moral dividing line between the ‘ respectable ’ and ‘ rough ’ elements of the working class , as well as between indigenous and immigrant populations . |
| 22 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 23 | A group at the University of Hokkaido is trying to isolate this chemical , which it calls glycinoeclopin A. So far the group has managed to obtain a tiny portion — 0.5 milligrams — of the substance and now it is trying to discover the chemical structure of the material . |
| 24 | Br. , 1982 , 18 , 775 ) , Prof Michael Grätzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has managed to construct a photovoltaic cell out of cheap materials , and with an energy conversion efficiency that is commercially realistic ( Nature , 1991 , 353 , 737 ) . |
| 25 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
| 26 | The regions will decide whether the strategy Mr Yeltsin has chosen to get a new constitution adopted will succeed or fail . |
| 27 | QC has agreed to chair a working party to consider how best we can provide for effective sanctions for the nonpayment of subscriptions . |
| 28 | Composer Philip Glass has managed to create a new kind of music . |
| 29 | Craghoppers has chosen to use a different , more wind-resistant fleece , called Sportant , in its Tarnjacket ( £54 ) . |
| 30 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |