Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criticism the Oregon experiment has received highlights the general difficulties of moving towards this kind of explicit rationing system . |
| 2 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 3 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
| 4 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 5 | A further difficulty is that the current legislation provides no means for combating the growth of the tacit or informal collusion which has come to replace the formal agreements of earlier years . |
| 6 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 7 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
| 8 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 9 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 10 | In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's . |
| 11 | Gradually over the years the term has come to mean the minimum number of members who must be present if the meeting is to transact business . |
| 12 | Its own root is ‘ thought ’ , and from that it has come to mean the inner debate of a person who is reasoning with himself . |
| 13 | The life-is-a-party world of Xuxa has come to portray the official version of Brazilian reality , with its glossy blondes and creamy morenas — and very few blacks . |
| 14 | Thus , ‘ Congress has come to dominate the national politics of federalism , and its members have gained that dominance by crawling inside the details of federal grant programmes and examining the effects of the distribution of federal money ’ , instead of the states deciding it themselves . |
| 15 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 16 | Over this period an influential school of thought called monetarism has developed around his ideas and has come to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy as the dominant academic influence over monetary policy . |
| 17 | Shortly thereafter , KPMG will notify the party its client has selected to negotiate an executed purchase agreement . |
| 18 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
| 19 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
| 20 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
| 21 | JETTAIR , the Liverpool company aiming to reestablish air links between the city and London , has applied to operate an extra route to Gatwick . |
| 22 | Now the Government has moved to tackle the growing problem with four hard-hitting TV advertisements , as part of a £1.4m crackdown on sniffers . |
| 23 | THE GOVERNMENT has moved to defuse a growing row over its plan to introduce foreign language teaching for all Scottish primary pupils . |
| 24 | While Boris Yeltsin has struggled to control the Russian parliament for a year , Kalmykia 's 30-year-old president , Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , has solved a local version of the same problem in a day . |
| 25 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
| 26 | Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown has threatened to sue an American television network over reports that , while Governor of California , he threw parties where marijuana and cocaine where used . |
| 27 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 28 | Norway has threatened to leave the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) unless it is allowed to hunt minke whales in the north-east Atlantic and the six-year ban on commercial whaling is lifted . |
| 29 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |
| 30 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |