Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
| 2 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | Alan Hingston , Executive Director of IDB 's Marketing Development Division , said : ‘ Scandinavia has long been one of IDB 's target regions and business for Northern Ireland companies has developed steadily over the past decade . |
| 4 | The role of users within the mental health system has developed rapidly over the past 10 years . |
| 5 | Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated . |
| 7 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 8 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 9 | In Brossa 's opinion , the transaction processing monitor market has matured considerably over the last eight years . |
| 10 | However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years . |
| 11 | The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years . |
| 12 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 13 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 14 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 15 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 16 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 17 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 18 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 20 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 21 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 22 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 23 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 24 | Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism . |
| 25 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 26 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 27 | The demand for buses has dropped dramatically since the late 1970s and this process has been accelerated by the ending of both the bus grant and revenue support for bus services . |
| 28 | Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy . |
| 29 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 30 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |