Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The decision has provoked a rare outburst of open opposition , led by Thai Van Trung , one of the country 's leading unofficial green activists . |
| 32 | The prince 's decision has drawn a hostile reaction from many conservation organisations , including the Countryside Commission , not least because of the unprecedented length of the licences . |
| 33 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 34 | It is a pity that New Scientist has give a new lease of life to the old story of 100 000 meteorites falling in a swarm in Poland ( 17 March , p 711 ) . |
| 35 | As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas . |
| 36 | The role of community education in the process of social change has aroused a great deal of discussion and action by socially committed adult educators over the last two decades . |
| 37 | In Brazil , for example , the change has meant a vast increase in the added-value part of the supply chain in local hands . |
| 38 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunPics division has announced a joint technology and marketing deal with Adobe Systems Inc , hoping to add value to its NewsPrint open network printing technology ( UX No 360 ) with imaging technologies such as Postscript and Display Postscript . |
| 39 | Indeed , ever since the Queensberry era began in 1892 every weight division has had a high proportion of middle-class world champions and contenders — men for whom deprivation was having T-bone steaks only twice instead of thrice a week [ see table ] . |
| 40 | The Division has taken a leading role in developing research into the assessment of work based learning ( AWBL ) . |
| 41 | IBM Corp 's System/36 division has signed a worldwide deal with ICS Computing Group — which includes the business of Software Ireland Ltd — to market the Belfast , Northern Ireland-based company 's Unibol code converter . |
| 42 | The involvement of the Archive in a venture of this kind has represented a new departure in the dissemination of its holdings . |
| 43 | His passion for training and dedication of the overt kind has lifted a demoralised Test team up from its knees , always bracketed with his own phenomenal contribution with the bat . |
| 44 | The current offensive has provoked a sharp recession , with investment , construction , travel and commerce suffering badly . |
| 45 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 46 | Since 1989 defence has taken a growing share of state spending ; the official defence budget has doubled , keeping well ahead of inflation . |
| 47 | Cholesterol has had a bad press . |
| 48 | To help those in this position Scottish Provident has published a free Guide to the Carry Back and Carry Forward of Tax Relief . |
| 49 | In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too . |
| 50 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 51 | Spain by contrast has had a 40-year dictatorship which unlike those of Japan , Germany or Italy , is part of very recent history . |
| 52 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 53 | Re-selling the goods , therefore , does not constitute acceptance unless the buyer has had a reasonable opportunity of examining them . |
| 54 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 55 | The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes . |
| 56 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 57 | Nynex Corp 's New England Telephone & Telegraph Co has had a clean bill of health from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which affirmed the double-A-minus senior unsecured debt rating , and said long-term outlook is positive . |
| 58 | Hewlett-Packard Co has put a hard hat onto its HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations and brought out a new Posix-compliant HP-RT 1.0 real-time operating system for them for factory-floor and control applications . |
| 59 | A KWVR member and computer programmer has designed a sophisticated program that is cutting significantly the time taken to process bookings . |
| 60 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |