Example sentences of "that has [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion . |
| 2 | The model of multidisciplinary teamwork that has emerged in old age psychiatry potentially provides a means whereby the valuable experience of the several disciplines concerned can be applied to the widest possible range of those who need it . |
| 3 | There will be criticism that team discipline off the field is wanting , a complaint that has surfaced with reasonable regularity since before Lord Hawke 's time . |
| 4 | Yet her range of interests , in a field that has moved from comparative policy neglect to the very centre of the community care reforms , has been wider than almost all the others . |
| 5 | This is not entirely unconnected to another feature of the economies of many Third World countries that has become of great salience in recent years , namely their foreign debt and the eff–ct that servicing that debt , particularly in times of rising and unpredictable interest rates , has on economic and social planning . |
| 6 | Having taken office in May 1979 , the Conservative government made an early decision to amend the long-standing arrangements for meeting the increasing costs of public sector higher education by limiting the size of the ‘ pool ’ for the financial year of 1980–1 , and an Education Bill was placed before Parliament giving the Secretary of State for Education the necessary power to predetermine the size of , or in the phrase that has crept into common usage , to ‘ cap ’ the pool . |
| 7 | The Labour Party is in favour of that element of the " Westminster Model " that has to do with single-party government grounded in secure majorities in the House of Commons and it is , in consequence , opposed to proportional representation . |
| 8 | We might say that the Nun 's Priest represents a human character standing at the intersection of various areas of human activity and experience mirrored within the text , and that the important attributes of the construct that this character is are not least life and humanity themselves ; the real individual and communal life that has to compromise between animalistic anarchy ( i.e. the fabliau world ? — cf. |
| 9 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 10 | They are disgusted with a decision which must kill off the all-important chance of exposing a form of cheating that has spread with alarming haste as bowlers find ways of getting the old ball to swing violently late . |
| 11 | This finding corresponds with research that has concentrated on early retirement ( McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ; Parker 1980 ; and in France , Cribier 1981 ; Gaullier 1982 ) and withdrawal from the labour market through the job release scheme ( Makeham and Morgan 1980 : 14 ) , but we do not know how many of those older workers with poor health would have been fit enough to continue working if the plant had not closed . |
| 12 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 13 | ‘ Mental handicap ’ is the term that has come into general usage to describe a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind . |