Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , the help rendered to the Party by the Armed Forces during political crises has reminded the party of this potential and invariably produced a redoubled effort to ensure military dependence upon Party and State . |
| 3 | 1974 ) in a desire to achieve the economies of scale concentration ( already discussed in Chapter 4 ) , and second , the dramatic increase in accessibility for those with private cars has allowed the majority of people to travel much further distances to better and/or cheaper facilities ( Rowley , 1971 ) . |
| 4 | While there is a history of heart conditions in the Souness family — his father had a by-pass operation three years ago — there is no doubt that the added pressures of managing one of England 's top clubs has accentuated the problem . |
| 5 | The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time . |
| 6 | Victim 's interpretations and memories indicate that victim studies can not be assumed to accurately reflect the ‘ real ’ extent of crime ; and the search for more reliable and direct indicators has included the development of self-report studies . |
| 7 | A report by the Department of the Environment admits that the practice of planting large stands of conifers on British uplands has worsened the effects of acid rain , resulting in the deaths of salmon , trout and frogs , and the pollution of upland streams . |
| 8 | Since then , techniques such as seismic surveys , mechanised geochemical analysis , and isotopic research , have become available , and the theoretical framework of research in these geologically interesting areas has provided the potential for a great deal of re-interpretation , some of it of a fundamental nature , contributing to theoretical developments in geology . |
| 9 | The director of public prosecutions has given the driver in the Purley train crash limited immunity from charges . |
| 10 | Radiological investigation of suspected individuals has increased the number of smugglers apprehended , but some still evade detection . |
| 11 | Liberty has been sacrificed for convenience , the appeal to the rising crime rate as an ideological weapon against progressive teachers and liberal social workers has strengthened the Government 's hand . |
| 12 | The growth of the social services to cope with existing social problems has necessitated the development of whole new professions to cope with the work . |
| 13 | From the concentrations of birds and mammals in high latitudes has grown the myth that all polar seas are immensely productive . |
| 14 | It is the work of a writer for whom , in successive fictions , the theme of sexual dealings between people of different races has necessitated the representation of violence . |
| 15 | Secondly , the Director of Social Services has got the authority to waive any of these charges where it causes financial hardship and the whole mechanism has been put in place to inform people that this waiving waiver process is in place and to allow them to apply for waiving of those charges . |
| 16 | The fierce rivalries of teams and top competitors has masked the warmth of participating together in a team or standing on the terraces cheering on your side . |
| 17 | The vast majority of British novelists has dropped the baton , stood still , turned back , or not even realised that there is a race . |
| 18 | During the twentieth century more houses became tied with the decline of the landlord — tenant system in farming and its replacement by owner-occupation , and since the Second World War the chronic shortage of housing in rural areas has increased the importance of tied cottages still further . |
| 19 | The tension between these two contradictory functions has provided the space within which new signs and new attitudes can break through ; it also , depending on which function is in the ascendant , explains pop culture 's vacillation to date between empty reaction and charged visions of possible futures . |
| 20 | On a ‘ Factory Walk About ’ , the most recent developments are as follows : — at the ‘ top end ’ , the old Wilton winding areas has become the pattern room which moved into its new location in April . |
| 21 | Since the Big Bang the disappearance of fixed commissions has removed the necessity for offering such compensation . |
| 22 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 23 | A group of aerial hunters has combined the use of ultrasonic frequencies with refined bursts of sound to produce extremely high resolution . |
| 24 | The effects of these changes in agricultural techniques so far are by no means catastrophic for birds , perhaps because the limited availability of bushy nesting cover in predominantly arable areas has controlled the number of many common passerines below the levels the potential food supply could support . |
| 25 | One of the country 's oldest and most haunting woodlands has provided the setting for a new novel by one of the biggest selling writers of historical romance . |
| 26 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
| 27 | The European Court of Human Rights has considered the application of article 10 to contempt of court in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( 1979 ) 2 E.H.R.R. 245 ; to criminal defamation in Lingens v. Austria ( 1986 ) 8 E.H.R.R. 407 and to breach of confidential information in The Sunday Times v. United Kingdom ( No. 2 ) ( unreported ) , 26 November 1991 , Series A No. 217 . |
| 28 | These plants were supposed to provide fuel for a new generation of ‘ fast ’ reactors which would burn plutonium , but neither the demand for nuclear power nor the performance of fast reactors has met the planners ' expectations , and the cost of uranium fuel has dropped . |
| 29 | One well-organised practice which is currently computerising its patient registers has taken the trouble to check the corresponding FPC register . |
| 30 | The use of multiple recordings has allowed the development of a series of techniques for localizing sources of electrical activity within the cranium . |