Example sentences of "[det] has [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 4 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 5 | For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world . |
| 6 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 7 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 8 | This has necessitated a concern with the movement and transformation of energy in the atmospheric boundary layer , in the plant cover and in the soil so that progress could be made towards understanding the mechanism of energy and moisture exchange . |
| 9 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 10 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 11 | But this has cast a shadow over the College . |
| 12 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 13 | All this has reinforced a mood of debt reduction and rebuilding of savings back to levels that were broadly maintained throughout the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 14 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |
| 15 | This has highlighted a number of shortcomings in the technical arrangements . |
| 16 | This has become a commonplace of gerontology , yet — among the general public — jokes are still made as to old so and so being " past it " , and the elderly man with a young wife still tends to be a figure of mockery or disapprobation ( the elderly woman with a young husband even more so ) . |
| 17 | This has become a reality through the hard work of staff at SCRE , particularly Rosemary Wake and a sturdy group of SERA members who meet to discuss future issues of Observations and plan the development of the network . |
| 18 | This has scotched a plan by hunters in the forest of Trysil , 200 km north of Oslo , to kill three wolves whose tracks have been found on the border with Sweden . |
| 19 | This has unleashed a wave of militant anti-Communist demagogy in the pre-election period . |
| 20 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 21 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 22 | This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation . |
| 23 | This has got a stain on it . |
| 24 | This has got a microphone on it , but |
| 25 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 26 | None of this has produced a rise in fertility . |
| 27 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 28 | This has produced a type with the upright carriage and bearing of the H.T. , but which flowers in clusters like the Polyantha . |
| 29 | This has meant a change in the role of carers and a move towards short-term placement . |
| 30 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |