Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spark kindled during the trips , many led by his tutor , Dr Stanley Chapman , ignited into a passion for products of Britain 's 19th century industrial pre-eminence — a passion which has developed into both a business and a pastime . |
| 2 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 3 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 4 | The EC 's share of their exports has risen from about a quarter in 1989 to about half . |
| 5 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 6 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 7 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 8 | Since the 1930s , it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant . |
| 9 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 10 | The easiest thing to do is stop reading , to find that a whole year has passed without even a glimpse of a business book . |