Example sentences of "[coord] has [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Department of Education and Science has welcomed the report and has already promulgated a similar view in its own Green Paper Science Education in Schools , issued in June 1982 .
2 Under the agreement , Olivetti is to distribute the two new devices and has also acquired a significant minority investment in Eo though the exact figure has not been disclosed .
3 It is part funded by membership subscription , and part government funded at present , and has also won a European Community grant .
4 Although former minisupercomputer maker Elxsi Corp disappeared from radar screens a year or three back , its Tata Elxsi Ltd former joint venture with the giant Indian conglomerate J R Tata Sons & Co Pte Ltd of Bombay is still in existence , and has just announced a joint venture with Mountain View , California-based Silicon Graphics Inc to expand their collaboration for the Indian market .
5 Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season .
6 After taking a direct hit on the right temple , Mr Loaf walked off and has not graced a British stage since .
7 In spite of her angry and tearful protests Charles insisted on giving the token to the woman who had haunted their courtship and has since cast a long shadow across their married life .
8 The EC is a topical example of regional cooperation , which was initially a free trade area and has since evolved a European Monetary System , combining different inflation rates with relatively stable real exchange rates .
9 Derrida 's famous paper ‘ Structure , Sign and Play ’ aroused much excitement when it was delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins in 1966 , and has since acquired a mythological significance as the fountainhead of American deconstruction .
10 Again in contrast to Ballantyne , the episode is discussed afterwards amongst the boys , and has clearly made a lasting impression on them .
11 It produces items in almost every conceivable quality , size and design , and has skilfully adapted a wide range of Persian workshop and village compositions to the requirements of Western furnishing tastes .
12 Gateshead has a large number of low-income families and has traditionally had a poor participation rate in further and higher education .
13 It has created enormous cities … and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life . ’
14 It 's a massive work and has obviously taken a great deal of your time and trouble .
15 It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign .
16 But a leading Japanese poet , Shuntaro Tanikawa , has provided Rupert Sheldrake with an old Japanese rhyme , and has specially written a genuine poem and a nonsensical poem , all with the same rhyme and metre .
17 However , because so much ‘ neighbouring ’ has been rooted in the notion of mutual exchange , and has always involved a fine balance between closeness and distance , it is in some ways harder for the parties to adapt to a changed role than it is , for example , in a situation where the supporter is defined from the outset as a voluntary visitor .
18 The European Business Studies degree prepares students for the European fields of business activity , and has always attracted a high calibre of student with language skills and an urge to do business in the varied market places of Europe .
19 Morphologically it represents the most anterior region of the head and has secondarily acquired a basal hinged attachment .
20 The court will decide next Wednesday on the High Court ruling that doctors can stop feeding Tony , 21 , but has already reached a preliminary finding , said Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Bingham .
21 The fact that no powerfully theoretical recreation geography has emerged , however , should not be seen as a defeat for the subject , for the empirical work that has been produced has not only been very useful in its own right , but has also shown a significant mismatch between leisure aspirations and recreational resources .
22 He rejoined Birmingham as No 2 to Terry Cooper but has always wanted a top job of his own .
23 IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast .
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