Example sentences of "has [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 2 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 3 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
| 4 | He has since sought help from Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme in an effort to get someone to accept responsibility for his losses . |
| 5 | While the election has badly dented ratings for television news and current affairs programmes , it has improved Radio 4 audiences , according to BBC figures . |
| 6 | But when these rules have become accepted as a matter of convention , then a crisp distinction has necessarily taken hold between arguments about and arguments within the rules . |
| 7 | The long-standing popularity of Japanese woodcut prints in the West has somewhat disguised differences in approach . |
| 8 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 9 | Pavilion has hitherto used Bloomsbury for sales representation and DMS-Media Services for distribution . |
| 10 | Mr Gandhi ( who , admittedly , has long preached toughness against terrorism ) is equally practical . |
| 11 | Van Morrison has long had associations with mysticism and his legacy are bands like U2 , The Hothouse Flowers and The Waterboys . |
| 12 | Amalfi is a warm and colourful town which has long attracted scores of celebrities . |
| 13 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 14 | ‘ Today has merely confirmed years of observation , ’ she retorted stiffly . |
| 15 | According to numbers InfoCorp worked up HP has finally surpassed DEC in US revenues from midrange systems ( priced from $25,000 to $699,000 ) , giving HP the spot right behind IBM . |
| 16 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
| 17 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 18 | The Science Reference and Information Service of the British Library has just published Guide to Libraries in Central and Eastern Europe ( ISBN 0 7123 0795 8 ) , compiled by the information specialist Maria Hughes , from data not widely available . |
| 19 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 20 | Ulysses has already relayed data on Jupiter 's magnetic field , how the solar wind interacts with it , and on the interplanetary region . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old Malmo player , rated at about £700,000 , has already rejected moves to Liverpool and Leeds . |
| 22 | He revealed that the once-struggling actress has already netted £50,000 from interviews since news broke of her affair with Minister for Fun Mr Mellor . |
| 23 | The material has already revealed evidence for trepanation , a surgical procedure involving removal of a piece of bone from the skull . |
| 24 | Sources say Novell Inc has already sent scouts to David Tory at the Open Software Foundation with the message that it could not possibly sell Unix with Motif at the kind of price OSF charges for a licence : it says OSF is now doing its sums . |
| 25 | Shortage of drinking water has already provoked riots in Katmandu . |
| 26 | Farming has already caused controversy in Europe . |
| 27 | Palo Alto , California-based Legato Systems Inc has agreed to provide its Transport Independent Remote Procedure Call tool kit to Novell Inc in exchange for Novell 's local network Workplace TCP/IP stack — the Novell product will be bundled with Legato 's Networker in its ClientPak II configuration and users with MS-DOS clients on a NetWare local network will be able to do on-demand back-up of MS-DOS and Unix applications by backing them up on a Unix or NetWare server configured with TCP/IP ; IBM has already licensed NetWorker for marketing to its RS/6000 customers . |
| 28 | Question 12 Should the Council normally exercise its discretion not to make a grant from the compensation fund where the application has already received payment from SIF to the full extent of 1 million ? |
| 29 | The campaign has already received £130,000 from ICI , enabling 250 community-based maritime improvement projects to be carried out . |
| 30 | One course in England has already received approval in principle to run 10 programmes of 40 places each starting next April . |