Example sentences of "[adj] has [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday .
2 That has led to a suggestion with far-reaching consequences .
3 I assume that the Minister is aware that 750,000 tonnes of CFCs are used in the world every year and that that has resulted in an ozone layer hole as large as Alaska .
4 However , with semen import restrictions off and markets opened up , that has changed with a vengeance .
5 Firstly to our Current Master Fellow , , who gave me my initial tuition in embalming , but more than that has acted as a mentor throughout my career , for that I am forever grateful .
6 In Sweden the native ( albeit primitive ) Swedish Polled has dropped from a quarter of a million milking cows in the 1950s to perhaps 2,500 today , pushed out by imported Friesians and by the amalgamated Swedish Red-and-White , while the national dairy herd as a whole has dropped from 1.6 million cows in 1950 to about 576,000 in the 1980s , though the average milk yield per cow has doubled .
7 In part it would appear that this has arisen from a tendency to see questions of housing and home life as matters of individual and privatised choice , to be set aside from the mainstream of political life where employment is the crucial issue .
8 This has led to a range of top level employees including high powered vets , scientists and senior inspectors .
9 This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects .
10 This has led to a fall in the emergency attendances with almost a hundred per cent registration rates from local slum families .
11 This has led to a position where politically opposed groups are united by their view of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity rather than politics and history .
12 This has led to a change in the way in which both physical and social data are collected and combined in an effective conservation policy , or , as Pickering ( 1979 ) puts it , in such a way as to ensure the technical validity of a conservation technique is appropriate over the same area as its social validity .
13 More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom .
14 This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be .
15 This has led to a situation in which individuals have either tended to pursue their own goals ( deliberately ) or have misinterpreted ( genuinely ) the aims of the school .
16 This has led to a series of attempts to reinscribe a place for , and a relation with , the other as other , outside the sphere of mastery and therefore , logically speaking , both infinite and beyond the scope of knowledge .
17 Biometrics is a key contributor to their success , and recognition of this has led to an opportunity for a Statistician to complete a team of three .
18 This has led to an interest in relating the performance of non-traditional students to that of students with differing levels of A-level scores .
19 While this has coincided with a revival of interest in opera among the ‘ chattering classes ’ , I 'm not at all sure that it means a lot to the average person , except , simply , as dramatic music .
20 ‘ You think this has turned into a game , or what ?
21 This has come as a shock to all of us , Masklin thought .
22 This has come to a head with EEC obstructionist moves at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations which were meant to reach a conclusion by 1990 but which would now appear to have collapsed .
23 A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue .
24 Part of this has come from an influx of retired people , and it has therefore accentuated the already very unbalanced age composition of the population resulting from the emigration of the younger people .
25 Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up .
26 He added that this has happened against a background of 1,000 more jobless in the last two years .
27 This has happened in a number of developed countries — though not for the reasons given by Marx but primarily because of the growth of government and restrictive practices in labour markets .
28 This has lead to a recognition of the need for education among the adults of the community , in the form of horticultural skills , which they will obtain from College of Agriculture advisers and the Highlands and Islands Development Board .
29 This has translated into a chance for the partners to show work by artists like James Rosenquist , Robert Mapplethorpe and Richard Tuttle artists who are already firmly locked up in other dealers Stateside .
30 The alternative to this has amounted to a reaffirmation of historicism almost as if nothing had happened .
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