Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With economic change has come the emergence of both areas and social groups of disadvantage , which have attracted the attention of analysts and observers with an intensity accorded to the social and environmental problems of deprived London a century ago .
2 With this in mind the genetics-supply industry has approached the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations at which all biological processes and products are assumed to be patentable .
3 The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché .
4 A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts .
5 When an acute outbreak has occurred the sheep should be treated with one of the benzimidazoles , levamisole or ivermectin and immediately moved to pasture not recently grazed by sheep .
6 The lowering of water-levels to allow ploughing of damp pasture has removed the nesting habitat of many birds which we used to take for granted , such as snipe , lapwing , and redshank .
7 Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter .
8 The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base .
9 But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames .
10 I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses .
11 BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) .
12 A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC .
13 A DC changes state from PROPOSED to AGREED only when the last interested user has accepted the DC using option 2.2.0 and only then if all interested users have accepted it .
14 The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers and has decided to revert to supplying employers with booklets containing payslips which relate to one deduction year ( p 103 ) .
15 The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers , a considerable number of whom had complained .
16 The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion .
17 The elevation of environmental concerns in the social consciousness has raised the profile of environmental protection and has led to international agreements specifically concerned with the environment , such as the Montreal protocol on the ozone layer .
18 The joint Sino-American study has measured the rate of methane production in four paddy fields in Szechwan , the heart of China 's rice growing area .
19 The one exception is that the opening of the inter-German frontier has complicated the campaign for the frontier-free movement of people within the EC , because it has become impossible to say where the EC 's secure external frontier is .
20 Trouble is , I only remember to do it every-so-often , and find my ageing mind has forgotten the details .
21 Yet more recent understanding of historical study has moved the focus away from the centres of power and social influence , and towards the lives of ordinary people .
22 German industry has welcomed the policy linked as it is with incentives for the Landers to become involved .
23 The advent of scientific thinking has institutionalised the idea that knowledge has to progress and can do so only through research .
24 A British judge has nailed the spectre in unequivocal terms .
25 Consequently , this unselfish and untiring determination has raised the women 's movement to a new qualitative stage …
26 Since then the grand old lady has graced the streets of Ipswich once again , but this time with at the wheel , for use on special occasions and for weddings .
27 French tennis has got the message across … organisation , belief and hard work … ‘
28 If that young Ethiopian girl has survived the droughts , famines and wars of these intervening years — not to mention the torments and dangers of childbirth for a circumcized and infibulated woman , whose vagina must be re-sealed after each birth — she will be 26 today .
29 Despite strong protests , both from users of the Brache ground and from residents , Luton 's Conservative-controlled council has backed the plans , which will now be submitted to the Department of the Environment for final approval .
30 GBC Scientific Equipment has announced the GBC 904 and 905 atomic absorption spectrophotometers with VGA colour video display , designed for routine analysis in the budget-conscious laboratory .
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