Example sentences of "has [vb pp] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , he has commented that the only sensation that he recalls from his youth ( which did not evaporate on his coming of age ) was one of persistent desire .
2 Tom Cannon was paid £15,000 simply as a retainer in the 1880s and Vamplew has calculated that the best riders in the period 1870–1914 might earn £75,000 in their careers .
3 The Uranium Institute , based in London , has calculated that the 816 tonnes of HEU that might be released from American and Soviet disarmament could take the place of 166,000 tonnes of natural uranium , roughly three years ' worth of world demand .
4 Using the Government 's own figures , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux has calculated that an unemployed claimant aged between 18 and 24 — as most students are — would have received £31.15 a week income support during the 12-week vacation : a total of £373.80 .
5 Skil , like several other traditional power tool manufacturers , has realised that the outdoor market has been largely untapped in recent years .
6 A court has heard that a former Swindon Town player tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff .
7 The jury has heard that the 28-year-old Londoners paid a friend Pounds 10,000 to act out the robbery in a New York hotel room in March 1990 .
8 Friends of the Earth has claimed that the British government is failing to alert the public adequately when ozone levels in the atmosphere cause a deterioration of air quality .
9 The Forestry Commission has claimed that the red squirrel faces extinction in southern Britain , and continuing decline in the north , unless large areas of contiguous conifer forest are maintained .
10 The Exxon oil company has claimed that the massive spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989 has had little lasting effect on the wildlife of Alaska 's Prince William Sound .
11 Perhaps Mr. Cleaver has forgotten that the British authorities turned away from Palestine ships laden with hopeless would-be immigrants who were forcibly , returned to Europe and the death camps .
12 The Scotsman newspaper has reported that the National Trust for Scotland has decided to stop publicising three venues because increasing visitor pressure there was harming either the building fabric or the ground .
13 As one example of the need for urgent action , the magazine 168 Chasa has reported that an abandoned mine near Sofia is filling with water which in turn is contaminating groundwater .
14 The independent Law Commission has recommended that a commercial tenant should in general be freed from any future liability under a lease when he assigns away his interest under it .
15 The Reviewing Committee has recommended that a further £15–20 million be made available to buy works of art threatened with export for the nation .
16 The board has recommended that the interim dividend be maintained at 2.5 pence per share .
17 In a recently published report , a Common Land Forum ( set up by the Countryside Commission ) has recommended that the general public should be granted a right of legal access to all areas of common land .
18 ‘ The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recommended that the Mental Health Act 1983 should be amended to incorporate a community supervision order .
19 It has recommended that the Austrian Chancellor , Mr Vranitzky , press for immediate closure of the plant .
20 Interested parties will find in it an array of ( other people 's ) opinion that can be dazzling , for postmodern methodology has ensured that a little bit of everything ( from a quartermaster 's appraisal of the value of art to a consideration of Santa Barbara 's peacocks ) is included .
21 The growth of retirement and , more recently , early retirement has ensured that an increasing proportion of older people have been excluded from the labour force over the course of this century .
22 The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course .
23 The vehement reaction to what was a unique challenge to accepted procedure has ensured that the basic pattern of newspapers working hand-in-hand with political parties and politicians continues to thrive .
24 Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " .
25 Professor Hoskins has written that the 161 households recorded in the 1670 Wigston hearth tax return represent eighty-two different family names .
26 Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ .
27 Once the authority has accepted that an individual ECR is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds , it remains a management responsibility of the health authority to balance the clinical priority of acceptance of a particular ECR against its budgetary considerations .
28 I think it 's fair to say that the Secretary of State has accepted that the special character of North Yorkshire , require a balance to be struck between environmental protection and development in the county .
29 This paper has argued that a sociological definition of an occupation should be in terms of the specific practices of that occupation .
30 Lenneberg ( 1966 ) has argued that a great deal of evidence about deafness in children , aphasia , environmental deprivation of various kinds , muscular debilities and so on supports the hypothesis that language acquisition by children follows a definite maturational path , passing certain milestones of achievement in a certain order .
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