Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although worker-priests have been active in promoting the possibilities for convergence between Christianity and Sandinismo , the head of the Nicaraguan Church Cardinal Obando y Bravo has emerged as a focus for the non-armed Nicaraguan opposition . |
| 2 | He would not say what companies were being considered as potential partners , but National Semiconductor Corp has hankered after a hit microprocessor for years , and the Japanese , led by existing Advanced Micro partner Fujitsu Ltd , would no doubt be interested . |
| 3 | The invention of writing and particularly the attempt to create autonomous text has resulted in a realignment of the two primary functions of language . |
| 4 | One would think ( as I think ) that this story has served as a vehicle through which people expressed their love of God , but not that it is true . |
| 5 | This round of the fight has ended in a draw . |
| 6 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 7 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 8 | A Middlesbrough driver has died in a road accident in Kirkby Stephen , Cumbria . |
| 9 | Most groups of pirate enthusiasts number around 10 , but New Scientist has heard of a group of 60 people swopping bootleg software . |
| 10 | Technological change has led to a de-skilling of industrial work , so that a major requirement of many employers is now for cheap , non-unionized , semi-skilled labour ( Massey 1979 ; Wood 1982 ) . |
| 11 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 12 | This concept of improved co-ordination has emerged in a number of urban projects . |
| 13 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
| 14 | The increasing impact of this greater professionalism particularly on salaries for instance has led to a consultancy being provided by N C V O's Personnel Unit , on appropriate levels of pay in one organisation . |
| 15 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 16 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 17 | A Scottish naval rating has died during a training exercise on an army firing range in County Down . |
| 18 | A TOP architectural award has gone to a town CAR PARK . |
| 19 | AN energetic drive to broaden the customer base has led to a Courtaulds Aerospace company in France anticipating turnover 50 per cent up on last year . |
| 20 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 21 | Up to now all the wires have been stationary , and the magnetic field has varied as a function of time . |
| 22 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 23 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 24 | The respect once given to older people for their knowledge and experience has suffered as a result of several factors : the decline of custom , the acceleration of change and the loss of oral traditions . |
| 25 | The lack of any real constraints on the executive branch has led to a crisis of overgovernability , in which executive proposals quickly become law via a quiescent Parliament without sufficient consultation , scrutiny , or debate and without any possibility of subsequent judicial challenge . |
| 26 | ‘ Photography has developed into a weapon of resistance in the constant struggle for survival , ’ Mr Müller said . |
| 27 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 28 | And the contract has gone to a company based in Milton Keynes . |
| 29 | The Italian influence on British cooking has resulted in a shift away from traditional classical sauces and stocks towards an emphasis on ‘ something exquisitely fresh , with the least amount of modification in the process of preparation ’ , to quote from an old Tuscan cookery book . |
| 30 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |