Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 2 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 3 | The chapter has come to rest with a description of the currently established , liberal-democratic , constitutional theory — a theory which argues that the constitution provides for a system of Cabinet or prime ministerial government within a larger parliamentary democracy in which Parliament is legally sovereign and the people are politically sovereign . |
| 4 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 5 | Fundamentally , many regard the ‘ conflict ’ over housing as an extension of the major divisions in society and argue that the allocation of housing is determined largely by the power that each group has come to possess in a society with a long history of class conflict ( Haddon 1970 ; Duncan 1976 ; Mellor 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Mr William Purves , the bank 's chairman since 1987 , has decided to stick to a strategy developed in the late 1970s . |
| 7 | Imagine a millionaire who has decided to donate to a charity . |
| 8 | In the 15th century there is a dearth of Florentine musical examples of the laude , and Wilson has had to resort to a discussion of the music found in lauda sources from the Veneto . |
| 9 | The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands . |
| 10 | Sarah will no doubt be keen to take the part , but Lloyd Webber has revealed that Roger Moore is not the only actor he has had to talk into a role . |
| 11 | He says it 's meant his elderly mother has had to live in a house that 's dangerous , barely habitable and will cost eighty thousand pounds to repair . |
| 12 | Well , this has got to come in a letter , I mean , this is what we want . |
| 13 | ‘ Has promised to return in a moment . ’ |
| 14 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 15 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 16 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 17 | The good news is that we are still going to see something of as he has agreed to act as a consultant for us . |
| 18 | The Coroner who will hold the inquest into the deaths , has agreed to sit with a jury … which relatives and their lawyers claim is vital . |
| 19 | The Society , which has a very high response rate to its many postal questionnaires , has agreed to cooperate with a survey . |
| 20 | Hankin , who packed in playing three years ago , has agreed to appear in a testimonial game on Wednesday , April 29 at Dean Street for Shildon 's late trainer Alva Caygill , who died last year . |
| 21 | Elitism has to mean more than this — even in its modern , broader sense — for it to be of analytical use , so modern elite theory has tended to argue for a plurality of elites which may interact or compete in a variety of ways . |
| 22 | In both countries , the nature of managerial autonomy and the existence of an internal organizational structure and interests poses problems of transmission which the state has attempted to solve by a variety of overlapping mechanisms : statutory and financial frameworks , the invocation of market forces , the creation of political pressures , political bargaining and exchange , and direct intervention . |
| 23 | Improvements in certain allowances were made , described as divisive by the unions , but the company has refused to compromise on a reduction in the shorter working week . |
| 24 | owing to the war and to the desperate poverty and ruin , [ the proletariat ] has been declassed , i.e. dislodged from its class groove , and has ceased to exist as a proletariat … |
| 25 | Casa Alianza has continued to press for a retrial . |
| 26 | Countess Olivia , who recently lost her brother and father , is now in deep mourning and has vowed to live like a recluse for seven years . |
| 27 | To consider the issue in greater detail , the only circumstance under which his omission to treat his patient further could render him guilty of manslaughter is where he has failed to act in a situation where the criminal law imposes on him a duty to act and death has ensued . |
| 28 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 29 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 30 | The accusation , ‘ that person has no conscience ’ , carries a condemnation of character , but the real culprit is the society which has failed to raise to a position of the utmost importance in the public mind , the fact that the human conscience is the very rock-bottom foundation on which civilisation rests . |