Example sentences of "has [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the Festival 's six major themes is that of ‘ Recreation and Sport ’ and the Scottish Sports Council through Actionsport Scotland has undertaken to organise a daily programme of sports activities . |
2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
3 | For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve . |
4 | For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate . |
5 | From a family firm with some 2,000 employees in 1966 , the group has grown to become a public company comprising nine factories employing around 6,000 people at home and overseas . |
6 | She has applied to do a nursing degree . |
7 | THE GOVERNMENT has moved to defuse a growing row over its plan to introduce foreign language teaching for all Scottish primary pupils . |
8 | Anyone who has struggled to remove a rear tractor tyre or large trailer tyre will be pleased to see a new American innovation which eases the task . |
9 | Standing on the step was Father James Morrow , the Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist who has threatened to bring a private prosecution for murder against the anguished couple if their son is allowed to die . |
10 | A priest has threatened to launch a private prosecution against the doctor who treated the Hillsborough coma victim , Tony Bland , who died after his life-support machine was legally switched-off . |
11 | Mr Töpfer has threatened to apply a similar scheme to car manufacturers and to the makers of electronic goods , such as computers and television sets . |
12 | Greenpeace has threatened to seek a judicial review if a full public inquiry into the need for the plant is not held . |
13 | Our church has decided to erect a new building so that worship may continue on the present site . |
14 | AR-WACC has decided to establish a computerised communication data bank for the Region . |
15 | The Greek government has decided to build a massive complex of dams to divert the Akheloos River , endangering protected wetland areas which host thousands of wading birds including several endangered species . |
16 | He , too , has decided to keep a public silence . |
17 | He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case . |
18 | Faced with this ambiguity , the Bank has sought to make a clear distinction between its money-market operations ( for purposes of monetary policy ) and its bond-market operations ( for purposes of meeting the government 's borrowing requirement ) . |
19 | Whether in its truest sense — the sale of state-owned assets — or the conversion of ownership from an institution 's members to a new breed of shareholders , privatisation has made profiteering a respectable way of life . |
20 | It has helped to create a new generation of seriously wealthy individuals and the establishment of a tax system geared to entrepreneurs . |
21 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
22 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
23 | With the exceptions of Teddy Taylor and John Biffen , of whom more in a moment , each one , because of the strength of his views , has had to eschew a ministerial career , although each would without doubt have made a distinguished holder of office . |
24 | As a young director working with all-male crews , Karen has had to confront a high level of overt sexism , something the grant-aided sector does n't necessarily prepare you for . |
25 | See our problem page maybe one of our NCT mums has had to handle a similar problem . |
26 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
27 | He arrived late yesterday afternoon , it seems , and he has offered to give a little recital to anyone on the island who wishes to attend . |
28 | BRITAIN has offered to train a future South African police force , Baroness Chalker , the overseas development minister , said yesterday . |
29 | Knighton has promised to post a formal offer document to shareholders by 11 October , but he could run into problems with the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which is likely to require details of his financial backing . |
30 | ALMOST the entire workforce at a Birmingham engineering company has agreed to join a tailor-made group pensions plan drawn up by Royal Scottish Assurance . |