Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships .
2 Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos .
3 Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one !
4 Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender .
5 The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal .
6 Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent .
7 English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape .
8 By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers .
9 The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds .
10 The polish chief negotiator has demanded to know why the Community has such problems adjusting to the Višegrad states when it accounts for 56 per cent of their trade and they for 1 per cent of its trade .
11 The company has questioned the viability of taking coal from other seams at Woodbank Farm , but has refused to rule out the possibility of applying for further operations .
12 Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares .
13 Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream .
14 Second , although the government has tried to open up the supply side to competition , barriers to entry still exist both in terms of medical personnel and hospital construction .
15 The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional .
16 A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession .
17 ( 1 ) Whether the expert has failed to carry out the reference
18 Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks .
19 But his presence has failed to frighten away the opposition and 11 runners have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage .
20 Despite the effects of recession and significant overcapacity in the industry down south , the team has managed to build up the business considerably over the past two years .
21 Ironically , the Duchess of York has chosen to do precisely the opposite .
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