Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 2 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 3 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 4 | Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor . |
| 5 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 6 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 7 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 8 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 9 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 10 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 11 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 12 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 13 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 14 | According to the survey , 44 per cent of the sponsored students among the 14,000 engineers graduating in 1989 claimed that their work experience , averaging 13 months , has discouraged them from a career in engineering . |
| 15 | The sweater has enjoyed something of a renaissance since the 1980s . |
| 16 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 17 | Comedian and writer Ben Miller has the answers , and has incorporated them into a tribute performance , Gone With Noakes ( playing at Covent Garden 's Donmar Warehouse on Dec 4–5 ) . |
| 18 | There are cases , however , where the military has seen itself as a force for modernization , particularly in societies perceived to be ruled by traditional elites , and where the military may become imbued with the norms of Western processes of industrialization to the extent that it seeks to impose them on society . |
| 19 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 20 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 21 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 22 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 23 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 24 | And talking of unexpected wine styles , Australia has made something of a speciality of mixing Bordeaux Semillon grape with Burgundy 's Chardonnay grape recently . |
| 25 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 26 | The former communist daily , Berliner Zeitung , has transformed itself into a newsy , left-of-centre paper with a reputation for investigative reporting . |
| 27 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 28 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 29 | The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers . |
| 30 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |