Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A new accounting technique has almost trebled the 1991 profits to £620m . |
2 | Agriculture has also provided the expanding industrial and tertiary sectors with their labour force . |
3 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
4 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
5 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
6 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
7 | Science Applications International Corp has finally introduced the ruggedised version of RDI Computer Corp 's BriteLite portable Sparc workstation , which was planned more than a year ago ( UX 339 ) . |
8 | The £87m cross-harbour link has already passed the half way stage and is well on schedule for completion in November next year . |
9 | Brine shrimp sinking stick has also gained the five star fishy version of Egon Ronay approval . |
10 | Parliament has thus recognised the unsatisfactory results of the common law privilege against self-incrimination and has been willing to abrogate or modify that privilege . |
11 | - A letter appears in a national newspaper expressing disbelief that the writer has already spotted the first penny-for-the-guy collector/Christmas tree/artificial snow sprayed on shop window/Valentine cards on sale . |
12 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
13 | Consumption will rise in period t+4 : But investment will start to fall because , according to the accelerator , the level of investment depends on the change in income ( which has now begun to decrease ) : So , after rising from periods t to t + 3 , income has now stayed the same from period t + 3 to t + 4 . |
14 | Since then 37-year-old travel agent has steadily climbed the greasy pole towards the job he has coveted most — that of England coach . |
15 | The nuclear programme has also mobilised the technical , human , and industrial capacities of an important sector of the economy . |
16 | Anthropology has always provided the clearest symptomatic instance , as was foreseen by Rousseau from the outset . |
17 | A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law , University of London , may have been near the mark when he wrote , ‘ In both capitalist and communist societies , the judiciary has naturally served the prevailing political and economic forces . |
18 | ‘ The Churchyard of Grasmere … is interesting … some charitable stranger has lately added the mournful yew , a tree sacred to such situations . ’ |
19 | Daltrey has always seemed the keenest to reform The Who for live shows ( they split up officially in 1983 ) , and he has finally got his way : these British dates follow an American tour . |
20 | New historical practice has yet to develop the critical accountability it should possess , yet its efforts in confronting the questions of our access to history need to be encouraged . |
21 | His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners . |
22 | Writtle College has also signposted the three-quarter mile circular trail route , built stiles and bridged a large ditch . |
23 | Research has markedly redressed the unfounded and ill-wishing treatment of it dished out by the zealots seeking to bring about the hardened approach to poverty eventually enacted in the harsh workhouse-based act of 1834 . |
24 | Promotion by merit rather than political influence has long characterized the British civil service , but outside the civil service ministers still exercise considerable patronage . |
25 | The region 's Women 's Desk has already entered the second year of its life . |
26 | Issuing bonds in the form of eurobonds has a number of advantages ( discussed below ) and this method of issue has now become the dominant one . |
27 | The British Standard for Quality management has effectively become the international standard . |
28 | The law has therefore adopted the natural dividing line between what is lawful and what is unlawful as against B , the person threatened . |
29 | These both have a characteristic age of 16,000yr and have already reached or passed through the shell of their SNR : in so doing PSR1757–24 has apparently brightened the nearby shell by an injection of particles and magnetic field . |
30 | This plan has already alarmed the other Airbus partners . |