Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [vb pp] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raising of revenue by local authorities has generated a lot of litigation in the last decade as rate-capped and community charge-capped authorities have sought to challenge the legality of the caps imposed by central government . |
| 2 | This continuing exploration of sequential thought forms has embraced a number of major movements of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | This reliance on ‘ self-lacerating ’ punishment strategies has led a number of authors to propose an alternative criterion of credibility , known as ‘ renegotiation proofness ’ . |
| 4 | A team of researchers has completed a tour of more than four hundred public houses across the country . |
| 5 | With a workforce of three , including himself , Ron 's output in recent times has included a brace of DH.60 Moths . |
| 6 | In recent years the collective aggression displayed by groups of younger fans has caused a kind of ‘ moral panic ’ in the press . |
| 7 | The mapping of these units has enabled a pattern of faulting to be recognised in the Upper Chalk outcrop that may have a bearing on its properties as an aquifer . |
| 8 | Though neither Reagan nor any of his aides has formulated it in so many words , I think that the failure of standard economic remedies has created a kind of desperation , and , like a jilted lover , the administration is ready to take up with any attractive candidate . |
| 9 | Hitchens Quality Homes has developed a number of properties close to the golf club , ranging from two bedroom detached bungalows ( £159,500 ) to three bedroom three storey houses ( £169,950 ) . |
| 10 | The first involves the statutory local planning process ; for the location of quarries , mines , factories or holiday complexes in rural areas has become a source of conflict among local social groups . |
| 11 | This sudden and widespread redesign of streets in housing areas has prompted a number of evaluation studies , themselves reviewed by the Road Safety Directorate and the Ministry of Transport . |
| 12 | According to security sources , a UDR man recently charged with serious terrorist offences has made a series of detailed statements to police naming other members of the regiment as being involved in illegal activities . |
| 13 | Research in the Somerset Levels over the last few decades has produced a mass of evidence of prehistoric timber trackways built to cross the low-lying marshy land between the uplands of the Mendips and Poldens and islands in the Levels . |
| 14 | The development of massive and little used collections in universities has become a matter of custom — a practice scarcely requiring justification , unless taken to task . |
| 15 | The relief that chamomilla can bring to the parents , to say nothing of the baby , after a succession of sleepless nights and frantic days has encouraged a number of medical practitioners to look further into this system of therapeutics . |
| 16 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 17 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 18 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 19 | Western research on this subject over the past 30 years has identified a number of gaps and weaknesses in Soviet official socio-economic data , as well as many statistical series which , it is believed , can be used ( sometimes with adjustments for comparability with Western figures ) . |
| 20 | The vast volume of writing on environment in the past five years has produced a cloud of obfuscation , but here and there among it one can learn from one 's scientific and political neighbours . |
| 21 | One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal . |
| 22 | But none of my predecessors has found a way of introducing it here , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 23 | Though one of the agencies has developed a number of guidelines about procedure to be followed in certain circumstances ( see ch. 8 , s. i ) , there are no standard manuals of field officer practice . |
| 24 | The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has begun a scrutiny of Burma , under the confidential 1503 procedure . |
| 25 | Implementation of the Dearing Committee reforms has meant a halving of the old exposure period . |
| 26 | DSM Polymers and Hydrocarbons has introduced a range of Xantar polycarbonate grades , based on chlorine- and bromine-free additive systems . |
| 27 | It appears that my letter concerning Macca for Rangers has caused a bit of a rumpus . |
| 28 | The activity of corticosteroids ( see Chapter 5 ) against lymphocytes has offered a means of controlling lymphocyte tumours . |
| 29 | Mounting chaos in the state 's finances has threatened a collapse of the money economy and a retreat to 100% rationing . |
| 30 | The spate of recent company failures has yielded a glut of unemployed jet-qualified pilots , so any vacancies among the major airlines caused by natural wastage or — as in Virgin 's case — limited expansion are very soon filled . |