Example sentences of "[conj] has [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion . |
| 2 | The model of multidisciplinary teamwork that has emerged in old age psychiatry potentially provides a means whereby the valuable experience of the several disciplines concerned can be applied to the widest possible range of those who need it . |
| 3 | There will be criticism that team discipline off the field is wanting , a complaint that has surfaced with reasonable regularity since before Lord Hawke 's time . |
| 4 | Yet her range of interests , in a field that has moved from comparative policy neglect to the very centre of the community care reforms , has been wider than almost all the others . |
| 5 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 6 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 7 | The Labour Party is in favour of that element of the " Westminster Model " that has to do with single-party government grounded in secure majorities in the House of Commons and it is , in consequence , opposed to proportional representation . |
| 8 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 9 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 10 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 11 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 12 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 13 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |
| 14 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Tory group on Darlington council , says litter and pollution in the river is as bad as ever and has called for swift action . |
| 15 | Annie has suffered the indignity of being dumped by her husband , Aaron , for her sex-therapist ; Brenda has been swindled out of her alimony by greedy , unscrupulous Morty , a discount electronics magnate ; Elise has quietly suffered for years at the hands of an adulterous ne'er-do-well and has retreated into alcoholic stupefaction . |
| 16 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't explain how I feel in words and I do n't know what the future holds , ’ said Tamas , who has been granted political asylum and has applied for Hungarian citizenship . |
| 18 | Attention to detail and our high level of engineering integrity has been recognised by the top yacht designers and has led to constant involvement in rigs for all yacht projects from seventy to three hundred feet . |
| 19 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 20 | FRENCH socialist millionaire Bernard Tapie has sold his 1.6 p.c. stake in Societe Television Franaise and has resigned as managing director of Bernard Tapie Communication . |
| 21 | Fox & Gibbons is a law firm in the Middle East and has specialised in Middle East fund management for more than 25 years . |
| 22 | In 1988 , he was awarded an honorary masters degree at Guangsi Province University and has lectured on European art to post-graduate students there . |