Example sentences of "[conj] has [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 2 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
| 3 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 4 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 5 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 6 | It is itself a social product that has arisen as a result of political and ideological processes and institutions and its particular form has to be explained in terms of such processes . |
| 7 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 8 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 9 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 10 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 11 | In fact , independently of current concern about the constitution , there has been a trend to " judicial activism " that has resulted in a situation in which the courts have shown a much greater willingness to become involved in challenging the use of ministerial discretion and prerogative powers . |
| 12 | Do you ever have to copy type into the computer text and other data that has arrived in a fax ? |
| 13 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 14 | This activity has significantly increased the proportion of stock owned by private individuals , and has contributed to a narrowing of the discount between NAV and market capitalisation . |
| 15 | He has published many works on Scottish architecture and has contributed to a variety of publications including the Architectural Review , Country Life , the Architects ' Journal and the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 16 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 17 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 18 | BGS has studied the hydrogeology of Jersey in response to the island government 's increasing difficulties in meeting demands for water , and has collaborated in a project to develop a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge in the Sahel . |
| 19 | He was also a member of the Norwegian Institute of International affairs in Oslo for two years , and has served as a correspondent in Geneva and Cairo , among other places . |
| 20 | The development of flexible endoscopy , which allows pancolonic biopsy , has supported this finding and has led to a change in practice such that in many centres at risk patients are examined at intervals , with colonoscopy and biopsy , to detect premalignant dysplasia or early cancer . |
| 21 | The notion that Germany possesses some magical formula for everlasting material success is deep-rooted and has led to a string of further propositions . |
| 22 | The initial agreement covers many capital goods ( excluding informatics ) and has led to an increase in trade and specialisation . |
| 23 | The most obvious result of such ‘ cuts ’ has been to affect most adversely those without any other pension provision , and has led to an increase in the numbers claiming means-tested support . |
| 24 | Connie 's garden has achieved considerable fame in recent years and has appeared in a number of books . |
| 25 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 26 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 27 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 28 | He is seen as the visionary on the board , and has worked in a number of the company 's divisions . |
| 29 | Since then he has been involved in two research projects on older workers , and has acted as a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on early retirement policies . |
| 30 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |