Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Clough 's arrival at Liverpool , Wales ' World Cup prospects and his natural thirst for goals has left the Reds ' striker itching for action in a season which could turn out to be a memorable . |
| 2 | At a crossroads three miles from the square that for centuries has represented the heart of imperial Russia , the independent marchers were told by police that Red Square was out of bounds . |
| 3 | A troupe of experts has toured the country giving their views over periods of several days and as a result some courts have convicted and others have acquitted . |
| 4 | This set of essays has sketched the development , from small but imaginative beginnings , of a major Modular Course with significant institutional support . |
| 5 | The durability of coins has ensured the survival of these images from poorly documented periods and has thereby provided , as was realised in the Renaissance , a unique memorial to the achievements and history of the past . |
| 6 | However , White , in this issue , argues that private actions have played an important role in the development of more effective antitrust in the US , and that the recent decline in the number of cases has allayed the fears , expressed in the 1980s , of excessive litigation . |
| 7 | While the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association counselled caution on closures , the impressive period architecture of asylums has attracted the interest of architects in the possibilities of preserving them intact with a resident population . |
| 8 | In Leicester youth court , the influx of 17-year-olds has doubled the number of juvenile offenders coming before magistrates . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been in and out of the side since signing as an amateur three years ago but in the past couple of weeks has taken the game by the scruff of the neck . ’ |
| 10 | In this case a rigidity of priorities has served the buyer poorly . |
| 11 | This unique and unusually large number of disposals has disturbed the market in public houses . |
| 12 | Every stage in the growing complexity of social life and in the enfranchisement of populations has emphasized the need to designate functions and grades by means of symbols . |
| 13 | The choice of coordinates has made the wave amplitudes both transverse and traceless ; therefore the restriction on the coordinates is called the transverse-traceless gauge . |
| 14 | The lack of sponsors has meant the taxpayer has had to foot more of the bill . |
| 15 | A LEADING British team of chemists has joined the brain drain to the United States . |
| 16 | Any consideration of the changing nature of the English village seems inevitably to raise the question of how far the influx of newcomers has destroyed the village ‘ community ’ . |
| 17 | A series of disasters has underscored the point . |
| 18 | The paper reported that the school claimed to have saved £40,000 by buying in bulk but that ‘ The National Union of Teachers has criticised the move as a misuse of the school 's low-income clothing allowance which smacked of marketing ’ . |
| 19 | However , the advent of motorways has extended the range of the day trip , and Edwards and Dennis ( 1976 ) using gravity models and regression analysis have predicted that motorways could increase the number of longer-distance day trips to the southwest of England by between 11 and 17 per cent . |
| 20 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
| 21 | The financial burden of repairs has meant the council faces a year of cost cutting in other departments . |
| 22 | It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance . |
| 23 | Therefore it will not normally proceed with an accreditation visit until at least one cohort of students has completed the course of study . |
| 24 | The reduction in the numbers of farm-workers has weakened the basis of agricultural trade unionism , the peak membership of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers being in 1948 . |
| 25 | A VETERAN police inspector caught drink driving after a day out with friends has quit the force , a court was told yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ The drop in turnouts has to terrify the Democrats , ’ says Paul Tsongas , the former senator who mocked Clinton 's 41 per cent in New York by scoring 29 per cent even though he had already declared his candidacy over . |
| 27 | A former students union treasurer accused of stealing forty thousand pounds in funds has described the money as a ’ golden handshake or productivity bonus ’ he decided he was entitled to . |
| 28 | The slump in profits has limited the scope for corporation tax offsets but economic recovery should help ease the problem . |
| 29 | Funding for supply cover is available within the DES grants to LEAs for INSET , but in every case the demand for placements has outstripped the funds available , particularly given the competing demands that have existed within the LEAs ' in-service programmes . |
| 30 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |