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

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1 A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts .
2 BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 Trouble is , I only remember to do it every-so-often , and find my ageing mind has forgotten the details .
6 Consequently , this unselfish and untiring determination has raised the women 's movement to a new qualitative stage …
7 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 .
8 The Old Lady has shown no signs of obliging .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 As the hon. Gentleman knows , my right hon. Friend has granted the islands council consent to borrow up to £24 million during the rest of this financial year .
12 My hon. Friend has mentioned the reports of the Committee , including one on the general aspects of two televised sporting events sponsored by tobacco companies .
13 In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves .
14 First , historical criticism has determined the techniques used for dating a document .
15 I agree that the hon. Gentleman has supported the talks as they are conducted at present .
16 The Forum on Scottish Education has said the needs of schooling should not be used to further the Government 's wider interests in the council reform debate .
17 Not for the first time , the British voter has confounded the pundits and returned a shrewd , sensible verdict which should renew our respect for his discernment .
18 The British government has rejected the terms of a new European-wide agreement sponsored by the United Nations [ see ED 71 ] which would require cuts of sulphur-dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1980 levels .
19 Having identified wants and needs and resources as already defined , the social worker has to negotiate the resources and services available from the statutory sector .
20 Instead of viewing this development with hostility it celebrates the way in which the modern public company has reduced the shareholders to passive property owners , thus freeing the managers from having to act purely in the interests of shareholders .
21 The European Council has endorsed the demands which we , France and the United States have made to the Libyan Government requiring them to abandon their support of terrorism and to hand over the alleged perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing .
22 The economic slump has put the brakes on council house sales in Middlesbrough with only 172 being sold during the current financial year .
23 Kiwi fruit and pizzas notwithstanding , a vast sameness has swept the supermarkets of Europe , North America and Australasia .
24 After two and a half months , very little outside aid has reached the refugees in southern Iran .
25 The average candidate has to understand the concepts of continuity and change ; it is only the good candidate who has to believe and demonstrate that ‘ change is not always linear ’ whatever that may mean ) .
26 Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that .
27 He said today : ‘ I think the Premier League has laid the foundations for a better future for football generally .
28 The council 's plan to replace their Saturday shift with a standby system has infuriated the men whose bosses have just been given a big pay rise .
29 Such hard experience has taught the Yugoslavs that there is no guarantee that ‘ foreign aid ’ solves the problem to which it is directed .
30 If a moving enemy has triggered the Fanatics then the enemy unit is halted at 8″ away .
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