Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A leading pluralist exponent , Nelson Polsby , ‘ is guilty … of the same fault he himself has found with elitist methodology … |
| 2 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 3 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 4 | Such is the loving care which has gone into past history , it seems a pity that the authors are so hesitant about the future . |
| 5 | He ( 1981 , p. 190 ) observes the ‘ suppression of voice in pornographic cinema , a phenomenon which has extended to commercial cinema in general , in which voice is increasingly ‘ a support for a certain visible presence of the body ’ . |
| 6 | A picture emerges of declining Government support of a previously nationalised industry under privatisation which has led to intense pressure to reduce overheads and manpower with steadily deteriorating safety standards . |
| 7 | The £2 million costs are being found by the museum itself , together with Strathclyde Regional Council and the Fondation Mécénat which has looked to private sponsorship . |
| 8 | The debate within the EC over trans-frontier movement of waste [ see ED 61 ] has been fuelled by the French government , which has banned with immediate effect the import of all domestic waste after discovering that potentially harmful hospital waste from Germany was being imported illegally into France . |
| 9 | Northern Counties is a large housing association , with its headquarters in Manchester , which has specialised in fair rent and shared ownership housing schemes . |
| 10 | The internal management rule does not assist a third party which has dealt in good faith with an organisation which then defaults on its debts . |
| 11 | It is this which has resulted in accelerated erosion . |
| 12 | A ‘ managerial revolution ’ has taken place which has resulted in effective control over industry passing from owners to managers . |
| 13 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 14 | In one sense , yes ; the diet which has resulted in excessive weight gain or inability to lose weight is not the diet that you need to eat in future . |
| 15 | Also initiatives were taken to increase the Board 's influence in South America , particularly in English Language , which has resulted in significant growth in this market . |
| 16 | So can the spread of knowledge about the behaviour patterns associated with fitness in old age which has resulted from epidemiological research . |
| 17 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 18 | The entire span of Irish Art and Architecture is examined in a book of that name by Peter Harbison , chairman of the National Monuments Advisory Council , Homan Potterton , former director of the National Gallery of Ireland , and Jeanne Sheehy who has written on Irish art ( £14.95 ) . |
| 19 | No one who has gone through medical school would deny the influence of role models , and no one who has pursued a career in medicine , particularly hospital medicine , would discount the part played by patronage . |
| 20 | I wish to present a petition on behalf of Mrs. Janet Burke of 59 Fairfield road , Scunthorpe , who has gone to considerable trouble to collect signatures protesting against any attempt to reintroduce the export of live horses for slaughter . |
| 21 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |
| 22 | Yet new approaches to treatment of incontinence , for example , mean that many people can learn to cope with the problem ; learning about how to communicate with deaf people can reduce the isolation of someone who has withdrawn from social contact because of hearing loss ; and modern drugs and careful monitoring by a general practitioner can reduce the effects of Parkinson 's Disease . |
| 23 | We are confirmed in this belief by a passage contained in a Judicial Studies Board paper issued to Circuit Judges and Recorders in June 1991 where the Honourable Mr Justice Wright stated : It is impossible to over-rate the contribution made by Kemp & Kemp : The Quantum of Damages to this branch of the law and every Judge who has to deal with personal injury litigation will undoubtedly have to have access to it . |
| 24 | It has been organised for Daedalus by its European director Dr Nicholas Reeves , who was formerly a curator in The British Museum 's Department of Egyptian Antiquities ( and now advises the Earl of Carnarvon on his Egyptian collection at Highclere ) , together with Rupert Wace who has dealt in ancient art for over fifteen years . |
| 25 | The seeds alone , as anyone who has dabbled in Indian cookery knows , are not pungent . |
| 26 | In fact , since President Reagan came to office in 1981 the system itself has remained in virtual limbo . |
| 27 | ‘ She has travelled by ordinary train on a number of occasions . ’ |
| 28 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 30 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |