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

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1 Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ?
2 Something no-one has done in a balloon before .
3 We have already heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) suggest that there should be a further element which would take into account the length of time that someone has lived in a house .
4 The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate .
5 A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births .
6 I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years .
7 Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent .
8 A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right .
9 Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’
10 Mr Appleby said : ‘ This is a long-established business with a reputation for quality workmanship which has suffered from a series of bad debts and disputed accounts . ’
11 This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since .
12 Second has been the revival of interest in neocatastrophism which has arisen as a concept which acknowledges the significance , and in some cases the dominance , of events of greater magnitude and low frequency .
13 I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry .
14 Thus in ( 191 ) , to feel evokes a new state of awareness which has arisen as a result of the combined effect on the reader 's mind of novels and tales previously selected for this purpose .
15 British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford .
16 Recently , some Zambian churches have combined to produce the weekly Zambia Mirror , which has met with a degree of success .
17 The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed .
18 The local labour is mainly in small factories of 20–300 people which has led to a reputation for good relations between workers and managers .
19 However , the attempts to improve the position of the tenant have interfered with the market mechanism , which has led to a decline in the supply of accommodation on offer .
20 These policies have slashed manufacturing output and these policies have cut a massive two hundred and forty five million pound from the employment and youth training budgets for this year , which has led to a cut of eighty thousand places .
21 Some teachers in the county believe it 's this very concensus between Tories , Liberal Democrats and Labour which has led to a crisis in county education .
22 The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed .
23 Another little colony of the Blessed Ones which has turned into a hell-hole is to be found at Summerhill in Suffolk , where 70 years ago , the educational idealist A. S. Neill founded his progressive academy , known as the do-as-you-like school .
24 But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal .
25 Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% .
26 The resolution of the problem of compensation and betterment , which has changed on a number of occasions according to political philosophy , has not affected the system of plan and control .
27 The time for Eliot is just after the passing of ‘ the dark dove with the flickering tongue ’ , a German plane which has left behind a city every bit as much of a waste land as the earlier poem 's London , though now the ‘ crowd ’ has gone , leaving only the speaker who , ‘ before the urban dawn wind ’ , communicates with the ghost .
28 THE body of a teenager , which has lain in a mortuary for ten days , was finally identified yesterday .
29 He said the company had ‘ a clearly-defined strategic approach to its business , a professionalism and forward thinking which has resulted in a strengthening of its position in fiercely-competitive markets .
30 It remains to be seen how a rhino , which takes many years to evolve and which has evolved with a horn , will learn to survive without one .
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