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

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1 In that context we should therefore be grateful that our own dear CAA has delegated the regulation of homebuilding in the UK to the Popular Flying Association ; but I still ca n't help feeling that the list of types approved by the PFA as reproduced in this book is ultraconservative .
2 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 .
3 APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché .
7 A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts .
8 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 ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter .
13 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 .
14 But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames .
15 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 .
16 BRITISH RAIL has modified the bolts on the axles of its much-troubled advanced passenger train ( APT ) .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time .
20 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 ) .
21 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 .
22 The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Trouble is , I only remember to do it every-so-often , and find my ageing mind has forgotten the details .
28 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 .
29 German industry has welcomed the policy linked as it is with incentives for the Landers to become involved .
30 The advent of scientific thinking has institutionalised the idea that knowledge has to progress and can do so only through research .
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