Example sentences of "[coord] has [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This activity has significantly increased the proportion of stock owned by private individuals , and has contributed to a narrowing of the discount between NAV and market capitalisation . |
| 2 | He has published many works on Scottish architecture and has contributed to a variety of publications including the Architectural Review , Country Life , the Architects ' Journal and the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 3 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 4 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 5 | BGS has studied the hydrogeology of Jersey in response to the island government 's increasing difficulties in meeting demands for water , and has collaborated in a project to develop a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge in the Sahel . |
| 6 | He was also a member of the Norwegian Institute of International affairs in Oslo for two years , and has served as a correspondent in Geneva and Cairo , among other places . |
| 7 | The development of flexible endoscopy , which allows pancolonic biopsy , has supported this finding and has led to a change in practice such that in many centres at risk patients are examined at intervals , with colonoscopy and biopsy , to detect premalignant dysplasia or early cancer . |
| 8 | The notion that Germany possesses some magical formula for everlasting material success is deep-rooted and has led to a string of further propositions . |
| 9 | Connie 's garden has achieved considerable fame in recent years and has appeared in a number of books . |
| 10 | C Walker and Sons was founded in Blackburn 30 years ago by two brothers , Jack and Fred Walker , with a few thousand pounds of capital and has grown from a business with a turnover of under £100,000 in the late 1950s to a £620m concern with 3,400 employees in the UK and Ireland and profits last year of £48.4m . |
| 11 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 12 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 13 | He is seen as the visionary on the board , and has worked in a number of the company 's divisions . |
| 14 | Since then he has been involved in two research projects on older workers , and has acted as a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on early retirement policies . |
| 15 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 16 | Mr Watt , who is a specialist in insolvency , investigations and audit work , was an assessor to the Bingham Inquiry and has acted as a Department of Trade and Industry inspector on a number of investigations , including those into Alexander Howden and Guinness . |
| 17 | Neither has the polarity between Male and Female which we so take for granted ever been based on rock-solid foundations , but has depended on a variety of shifting meanings . |
| 18 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |