Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis in child care practice on families before institutions has contributed to a definition of the aims and the means of helping young people which accentuates personal , family relationships . |
| 2 | Boesky 's cooperation with the regulatory authorities has resulted in a number of other SEC investigations . |
| 3 | In England , the reluctance of the police to take action in domestic violence cases has contributed to a situation in which women do not generally invoke the criminal process in such circumstances . |
| 4 | The difficulty encountered by plaintiffs in obtaining injunctions to stop libels has led to a growth in applications for injunctions on the grounds of breach of confidence , ie that the information has been obtained from someone who is under a duty not to reveal it . |
| 5 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 6 | The Sunday Times has called in an Oxford historian to help with its serialisation of the Goebbels diaries . |
| 7 | The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors . |
| 8 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 9 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 10 | The role of small scale production units has increased in a number of industries . |
| 11 | The size and importance of many company pension funds has led to a demand for inhouse actuarial skills . |
| 12 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 13 | A ban on the use of lead fishing weights has resulted in a record increase in the number of mute swans in Britain . |
| 14 | The pattern of time allocations to subjects has changed with an increase in time allotted to language teaching — especially English . |
| 15 | However , the gain in yields has resulted in a loss of conformation and there is now a hunt for suitable beef sires to boost the dairy herd 's waning meat production . |
| 16 | A combination of ideal weather conditions and careful management of protected sites has resulted in a record breeding season for several of Britain 's rarest bird species , according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) . |
| 17 | But the shrinkage and change in family structure and the alteration of some of its functions has coincided with a rise in the importance of the family as a focus of personal fulfilment . |
| 18 | The sale of land and properties sited in prime development areas has led to a shortage of suitable housing for staff , particularly in the South East of England . |
| 19 | A succession of warm winters has led to an explosion in the adder population , as the moles and voles they prey upon have got more plentiful . |
| 20 | Since this treatment was introduced , the number of fatal overdoses has fallen from a peak of 192 in 1978 , to 152 in 1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 21 | A CALL for a big shake-up in the structure of the Scottish leagues has come from a shock source . |
| 22 | The obligation upon LEAs to meet a child 's special educational needs as set out in his/her statement of needs has led to an increase in specialist staff , visiting , or based in these centres and working with and supporting regular staff . |
| 23 | Over-confidence in the early days has led to a surfeit of caution ever since . |
| 24 | The question of an effective British veto on American use of British bases has surfaced on a number of occasions since 1952 . |
| 25 | Magee 's 30-year-old sister , Kathleen , who for several years has lived in a redbrick Victorian terrace house in Northumberland Street , Derby , with her seven-year-old son , Christopher , was being held last night . |
| 26 | The narrow emphasis on economy and efficiency which characterised the Thatcher years has broadened into a search for effectiveness and excellence as the current enthusiasm for quality in health care demonstrates . |
| 27 | Lastly , again does it not occur to us that niggardly education provision over years has contributed to a level of national vulgarity , taste , social behaviour virtually unacceptable in the modern world ? |
| 28 | A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block . |
| 29 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 30 | Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler . |