Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll .
2 Fate has placed you in a situation of subservience ; but in the sight of God you are the equal of an emperor .
3 Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission .
4 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 .
5 This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’
12 They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers .
13 The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers .
14 One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful .
15 He has employed you as a guide .
16 Bored with the custom of the bishop 's Easter letter , Hope has replaced it with a tabloid , just out .
17 Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch .
18 J. Howard , Secretary of Areley Kings Machine Knitting Club , has contacted us with a change of details .
19 ‘ I would ask you to stay longer , but His Majesty the King has invited me to a masque at Richmond . ’
20 " Who has invited you to a dance ? "
21 Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information .
22 Mr Grainger , who believes that the association could be the first of its kind in the country , has contacted the American Brain Tumour Association which has provided him with a wealth of information .
23 That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars .
24 In that event , the Antarctic ice sheet has provided us with a sample of a planetary body we have never seen , but which has a Moon-like anorthositic crust and a Moon-like soil layer .
25 Wolfgang Iser ( 1974 , p.288 ) has provided us with a picture of the competent reader 's behaviour , for — as he says — when we read ‘ we look forward , we look back , we decide , we change our decisions , we form expectations , we are shocked by their nonfulfilment , we question , we muse , we accept , we reject ’ .
26 Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned .
27 Dr Schoenwetter has found it in a layer of soil 6,000 years old — younger than in Panama , but still older than in Mexico .
28 ‘ Francis has remembered him in a codicil to his Will drawn up in Nassau .
29 Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride .
30 But he didnae tell me that he , he has telled me in a way .
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