Example sentences of "that have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this combination of factors that has led to a stream of government interventions over pay determination , productivity and working practices , investment and closure decisions , and industrial conflict . |
| 2 | We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot . |
| 3 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 4 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 5 | It is itself a social product that has arisen as a result of political and ideological processes and institutions and its particular form has to be explained in terms of such processes . |
| 6 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 7 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 8 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 9 | In fact , independently of current concern about the constitution , there has been a trend to " judicial activism " that has resulted in a situation in which the courts have shown a much greater willingness to become involved in challenging the use of ministerial discretion and prerogative powers . |
| 10 | Do you ever have to copy type into the computer text and other data that has arrived in a fax ? |
| 11 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 12 | And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the trouble with Nicky , ’ Constance told Louise after she had returned from yet another evening that had ended with a quarrel . |
| 14 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 15 | The katun , comprising twenty years of 360 days , was the most important unit of time in the Maya view , because the events in one katun were expected to approximate to those in a previous katun that had ended on a day with the same number . |
| 16 | To Karen , that had sounded like a lot of Jessica 's most harsh and brittle statements , the harshness and the brittleness barely concealing something darker underneath . |
| 17 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 18 | It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do , but I could n't refuse , not after the work that had gone into a production like this . |
| 19 | But ten million people had died in a campaign that had begun as a summer frolic in 1914 and now ended in a shower of November rain . |
| 20 | The bright evening skies that had served as a backdrop for the parade of revenants had been blotted out by a darkness which entombed them once more in the grave of the past . |
| 21 | Although the young man and Mrs H. denied rectal intercourse , it is probable that this was the site that had served as a source of the infection , which had presumably originated with her husband over a year previously . |
| 22 | By 1991 that had risen to a quarter . |
| 23 | The wing that had appeared like a church from afar was clutched in the attenuated arms of a vine , held up by the vine like a drunken dancer in the arms of a lover . |
| 24 | I told him to write down everything that had happened in a letter and send it to me . |
| 25 | Brewster was troubled , nevertheless , by another side of Newton : an alchemical passion that had left behind a hoard of manuscripts , consisting largely of transcripts from alchemical works . |
| 26 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 27 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 28 | He put on exquisite robes that had come as a gift from distant India , and took of vial of scented water , then mounted upon his noble steed . |
| 29 | Lotus had another go at four-wheel drive the following year , this time with gas turbine power The dramatically wedged-shaped 56B was a development of the car that had come within a whisker of tinning the 1968 Indy 500 . |
| 30 | Hefting a large , heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf , she let the first two go by . |