Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 2 | For a long time it has been content with this unchanging splendour but more recently it has treated itself to a quartier in the most modern style , complete with a magnificent new concert hall , the Corum ( which unfortunately appears to have been built on ground that it is less than stable ) . |
| 3 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 4 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 5 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 6 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 7 | There are cases , however , where the military has seen itself as a force for modernization , particularly in societies perceived to be ruled by traditional elites , and where the military may become imbued with the norms of Western processes of industrialization to the extent that it seeks to impose them on society . |
| 8 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 9 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 10 | The former communist daily , Berliner Zeitung , has transformed itself into a newsy , left-of-centre paper with a reputation for investigative reporting . |
| 11 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 12 | Claire has armed herself with a fistful of the funny small American change . |
| 13 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 14 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 15 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight . |
| 17 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 18 | Somerset 's cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Mushtaq has proved himself as a wicket-taker at the highest level . |
| 19 | One of the aims of this thesis was to use graph search terminology to clarify certain speech processing problems and the method has proved itself in a number of ways . |
| 20 | Supporters of his visit included Western Goals founder member Stuart Millson , who has described himself as a fascist and a racist , and BNP deputy leader Richard Edmonds , who has said he wanted to emulate what Le Pen has done in France . |
| 21 | In these fields Edinburgh has established itself as a centre of excellence with an international reputation . |
| 22 | This work has established itself as a bibliography of a single format , in a rapidly growing field . |
| 23 | ‘ Lowden Guitars has established itself as a prestige company producing a specialised product for a specialised market . |
| 24 | A FURNITURE recycling scheme celebrating its first anniversary has established itself as a lifeline for a town 's needy families . |
| 25 | Since its appearance in 1956 the US-based EDN has established itself as a leader in controlled circulation electronics magazines . |
| 26 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |