Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] has [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To withhold that assistance constitutes an irregularity which may be material depending on the circumstances , since , if the jury return a guilty verdict , one can not tell whether some misconception or irrelevance has played a part .
2 A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change .
3 TELECOMS giant Cable & Wireless has announced a £500m deal with Canada 's BCE .
4 Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph has filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission to offer up to $400m of debt securities .
5 Still , it is difficult to believe that either linguistics or psychology has achieved a level of theoretical understanding that might enable it to support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching .
6 The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark .
7 To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis .
8 The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described .
9 But I think that we can persuade them that it is something that Parliament has said a planning application that deals with local issues can be determined locally .
10 We now know that Stagecoach has obtained a minimum of ESQ 1 million for the $ 2 million worth of public sector assets .
11 The emphasis is , therefore , on the conjugal bond , to such an extent that marriage has become an index of ‘ normality ’ or ‘ settling down ’ and is now a status formally open to almost everyone of the appropriate age [ … ] .
12 He argues that management has developed a range of responses and has attempted to maintain control through the use of industrial relations procedures , through bureaucratic rules which channel conflict into manageable and acceptable ways , and especially through the use of internal labour markets and dual labour markets which divide and segment the working class .
13 In Norway and Denmark electoral support for anti-tax parties has declined , while opinion surveys in the United States and Britain show that tax-cutting has become a minority cause , compared to support for spending on social programmes .
14 His work has taken him by car to all parts of this wide and pictorially exciting area , and I suspect that lie has carried a notebook with him and jotted down impressions of darkening moors and sunset skies on his way home to Long Preston .
15 Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up .
16 The MMC is not able to initiate investigations itself ; either the DGFT or the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to refer a case to it .
17 The Department of Trade and Industry has announced a review of Companies House which could lead to partial or full privatisation .
18 The Department of Trade and Industry has produced a Consultation Paper , ‘ Strengthening the Appointed Actuary System ’ , which recommends the introduction of a practising certificate for Appointed Actuaries .
19 The Department of Trade and Industry has started an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Sound Diffusion 's demise .
20 Okay so another another K word key well you wo could have guessed that if key has got a K then keyhole pretty certainly have a
21 In the US , National Starch and Chemical has introduced a line of starch-based fat substitutes , Hercules has introduced a substitute based on pectin and Procter and Gamble has developed Olestra , a combination of fatty acids and sugars .
22 The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June .
23 Becoming leaner and fitter has become a choice of which limb to amputate next , ’ Mark Corner , Newcastle 's Labour chairman of education said .
24 The attitude towards the role of currents in erosion and transport has varied a lot .
25 Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management .
26 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced a series of guidelines which aim to ensure that environmental priorities are taken into account in every project which it supports .
27 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has published a strategy for repairing war damage in Croatia but only one project is nearing approval and there are no environmental projects as yet .
28 But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance .
29 Looks like egg-laying has taken a beating .
30 Williams has said that the doctor is ‘ probably exempted from that duty if life has become a burden to the patient ’ .
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