Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [noun sg] " 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 In the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry .
3 The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague .
4 The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché .
5 Its regional organizer has negotiated a company agreement with the Board , the main points of which are detailed above .
6 Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines .
7 Mr Smith said it was a ‘ curious coincidence that the prospect of political defeat has caused a revisal of the legal opinion ’ .
8 The Institute 's Technical Department has published a booklet on Accounting Records and the Smaller Company , price £2 ( p 97 ) .
9 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 .
10 The … economic-orientated literature has formed an imagery of the firm … that is an organizational caricature .
11 In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ .
12 Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter .
13 British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex .
14 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 .
15 But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames .
16 ‘ Let's pretend our train has got 25 loads on it , let's pretend British Rail has got a locomotive which can actually pull 25 loads over Shap Fell and let's assume it is 100 per cent full , ’ he continued .
17 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 .
18 BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets .
19 British Rail has launched an inquiry , but a spokesman said the alarm bells and gates appeared to be working properly .
20 BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week .
21 In more recent times , English Heritage has completed a refurnishing of the house and restored the surrounding buildings .
22 The Inland Revenue has announced an increase in the tax-free amount employers may pay to employees for periods of attendance on full-time educational courses ( including sandwich courses ) .
23 The Inland Revenue has issued a reminder that UK resident trainees may deduct basic rate tax of 25% from fees paid for study , examination or assessment , excluding the cost of books and equipment .
24 The scheme has been in place since April : however , to coincide with the start of the new academic year , the Inland Revenue has issued a reminder that UK resident trainees may deduct basic rate tax of 25% from fees paid for study , examination , or assessment excluding the cost of books and equipment .
25 The Inland Revenue has published a Statement of Practice , SP 8/92 , in which new voluntary arrangements are set out so that valuations need not be agreed where holdover relief is claimed .
26 The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Foreign aid has received a number of critical analyses , the best known of which is by Lappé et al.
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