Example sentences of "a [noun sg] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a case has reached the magistrates ' court , responsibility for granting or refusing bail becomes a matter for the court itself , but only after hearing representations from the Crown Prosecution Service if the latter decides to oppose a bail application . |
| 2 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 3 | For example , it may be a fact that a writer has used the work of others without their permission . |
| 4 | Not many people know this , but Othello is the only game at which a computer has beaten the world champion . |
| 5 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 6 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 7 | Where a club has applied the section , the secretary must notify the licensing board for the area of any alteration to , reconstruction of or extension to , that part of the premises where the main meal is provided . |
| 8 | Why should you have to go round with a frozen face because a child has kicked the cat ? |
| 9 | Basically Tests are to be done as worksheets in the classroom just as any other worksheet and would be done , to see if a child has understood the work taught . |
| 10 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 11 | Leigh 's retainer as a consultant has supported the space , which held five exhibitions until it closed this fall . |
| 12 | It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site . |
| 13 | A judge has decided the youngster should remain with her former foster parents until the case can be heard in full next year . |
| 14 | Providing a coroner has considered the result of a post mortem examination and he is satisfied that there is no reasonable cause to suspect an unnatural death , then he is entitled to proceed under section 19(1) and to decline to hold an inquest . |
| 15 | Hands up all those who 've received an indecipherable fax , where the print quality is appalling , where a staple has scratched the scanner , where the original document got stuck as it passed through the sending machine . |
| 16 | A charity has postponed the opening of a sex offenders treatment centre after two arson attacks on the building . |
| 17 | At the same time humankind as a whole has treated the oceans , rivers , lakes and ponds as a dumping ground , for sewage , noxious chemicals , radioactive waste , and generalized junk . |
| 18 | But we can separate the two issues , reserving the question of individual responsibility as one to be taken up only after we have decided whether the group as a whole has met the standards appropriate for it . |
| 19 | BASTIA , Corsica ( Reuter ) — After 11 years of deliberations , a court has ordered the pretender to the Italian throne to stand trial for manslaughter in the shooting of a German youth . |
| 20 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 21 | Many a student has found the route to vegetarianism via depleted funds . |
| 22 | At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home . |
| 23 | Its owner had claimed the animal was also whipped , but within the last few minutes , a tribunal has dismissed the accusations . |
| 24 | I 'd do a lot for Sue , but a man has to draw the line somewhere . " |
| 25 | It is easier to say whether a man has paid the money or not than to say whether he has complied with other orders ; and if he fails to pay , it is easy to get the money by selling his goods , if he has any . |
| 26 | A hobby has become the icing on the cake for Jackie Wintle of Barlaston 's planning department . |
| 27 | Once a bill has received the assent of both Houses it then goes to the monarch for the Royal Assent . |
| 28 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 29 | A COUNCILLOR has criticised the Salvation Army for ‘ Edwina Currie-like ’ comments on the habits of Teessiders . |
| 30 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |