Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But , in fact , it is conscious discrimination by policy makers against the unemployed which has had the side effect of making the relative position of pensioners look artificially advantageous .
2 Against this one has to balance the fact that a simple explanation of the common problems encountered seems to ( statistically ) reassure the patient , particularly the very anxious individual , although the overall effect was very small and probably clinically insignificant .
3 And because of this he has paid the price for my sins and your sins .
4 Since 1801 it has had the right to claim a free copy of all British and Irish publications under the relevant Copyright Acts .
5 The principle behind the system of graded tests is not dissimilar to that which has inspired the introduction of GCSE .
6 While the trio are about to add another voice to their repertoire , this cut acknowledges a similar knowing quality to that which has become the stock in trade of the Pet Shop Boys .
7 Earlier I drew a distinction between sexism that occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts ( like the use of endearment terms to women ) and that which has acquired the force of a rule by being written on the linguistic equivalent of tablets of stone , the dictionary and the grammar book or usage guide .
8 Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers says the situation is so serious he has contacted the airport to see what can be done .
9 And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture .
10 ‘ My God in heaven ! that she has let the likes of you touch her .
11 It seems that Watkins 's energies have gone into making sure he has got the details right at the expense of analysis .
12 To many it has complicated the process of selling InterCity travel , but — like the airlines who face similar problems — it is a necessary tool to maximise the earning potential of high-cost equipment .
13 Pouring over its latest simulation runs , Sun is confident it has broken the back of the technical problem .
14 At 86 he has put the rest of the beautiful island of Kos , a growing concern for British tourists to Greece , out of bounds .
15 Any player who wins a US Tour event should feel himself equally capable of winning the Masters , but first he has to lay the ghost of history , which pervades every hole on the course .
16 But first he has to set the number co-ordinates on his Scope before he can fire at any object .
17 As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century .
18 At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond .
19 We turn now to the question whether there is anything in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 which has altered the position .
20 At last he has won the World Formula One title — and we 're offering you this marvellous memento of his triumph .
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