Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But it does not follow that there may not be a difference in the procedures which are appropriate on the one hand in requiring the driver to provide a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) where it is obligatory for him to do so because one of the circumstances specified in section 7(3) has arisen , and on the other hand in informing the driver of his right under section 8(2) to claim that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol should be replaced by a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) . |
| 3 | He should be told that the specimen of breath which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol exceeds the statutory limit but does not exceed 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath ; that in these circumstances he is entitled to claim to have this specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine if he wishes ; but that , if he does so , it will be for the constable to decide whether the replacement specimen is to be of blood or urine and that if the constable requires a specimen of blood it will be taken by a doctor unless the doctor considers that there are medical reasons for not taking blood , when urine may be given instead . |
| 4 | The driver is faced with the prospect of conviction on the basis of the breath specimen which he has given containing the lower proportion of alcohol . |
| 5 | During the same period , it has voted to change the Russian constitution — itself new — on roughly 50 occasions . |
| 6 | The time has come to put the national interest above the special interest and totally eliminate political action committees . |
| 7 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 22 | He said If this person who ever he is has decided to join the Tory party then it is a matter for him and a matter of small regret but not one which will cause us to lie awake worrying about . |
| 23 | Judy Robinson has decided to leave the Grey Horse , on Bank Top , as her rent will double from £13,000 to £25,000 a year under a new 20-year lease . |
| 24 | Thabo Mbeki , the ANC foreign affairs spokesman , said in London yesterday : ‘ FW de Klerk has decided to shift the defensive line on which PW Botha stood . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State has made regulations specifying teachers ' contractual obligations ; a comprehensive list of duties ; he has decided to scrap the long-established machinery in which teachers ' pay and conditions were negotiated and has assumed temporary powers to determine these himself ; and he has introduced a national curriculum . |
| 26 | Burton Group ( retailing , clothing and home furnishing ) has decided to include the gross funding costs of holding the development property portfolio as part of the interest charges in the p&l account with effect from 1 March 1992 . |
| 27 | Rightly or wrongly , the Pavillon des Arts has decided to emphasise the festive spirit of the time . |
| 28 | That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies . |
| 29 | Having dangled its local area internetworking outfit in the shop window for almost two years now , Sun Microsystems Inc has decided to fold the wholly-owned Sitka Corp back into its SunSelect PC-NFS networking arm , effective on December 28th . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a lot of potential here and since coming I can see how much Frank has done to turn the playing side round . |