Example sentences of "has [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 2 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 3 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 4 | The government has given its blessing to the £935m bid by Tomkins for Bisto to Mother 's Pride giant Ranks Hovis McDougall . |
| 5 | The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon . |
| 6 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 7 | However , the responsibility for any report included in listing particulars or a prospectus ( for example , an accountants ' report ) remains with the person who has given his consent to the inclusion of that report in the form and context in which it is included . |
| 8 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 9 | Mr Kenneth Clarke has earned his promotion to the Home Office , and has the combination of brains and toughness to undertake the huge task of reforming the police . |
| 10 | But it has stressed its commitment to the polluter-pays principle , and plans to introduce charges that will eventually cover the scheme 's costs . |
| 11 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 12 | Kelly has enjoyed his return to the national spotlight after earning his nickname during Leatherhead 's FA Cup exploits of the mid-70s . |
| 13 | He says the council has added its voice to the lobby against hunting . |
| 14 | The Group has added its name to the programme , organised by six of the United Kingdom 's leading voluntary organisations , which has developed well over 2,000 self-financing environmental schemes and green projects for small businesses since 1986 . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth has added its name to the list of environmental groups which have condemned the government 's " set-aside " programme for redundant farmland , initially given a broad welcome by green campaigners . |
| 16 | The Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has added its weight to the lobby for an environmentally friendly national transport policy and called for a series of measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 17 | Initially , a sheriff held that the case could go ahead at Greenock Sheriff Court but Mr Anderson , 22 , of Nelson Road , Gourock , has won its transfer to the Court of Session . |
| 18 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 19 | The Arts Council of the Netherlands has presented its advice to the Minister of Culture , Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , with a policy document outlining its plan for the arts in the period 1993–96 . |
| 20 | Because he is a servant of God , Paul has written his letter to the Roman Christians . |
| 21 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 22 | This is the ruthless side of Kylie , the hard-nosed accountant 's daughter who has exploited her popularity to the hilt and capitalised on her success like no other pop star in the past decade . |
| 23 | She in turn feels she has painted best when ‘ the ’ dog appears as though it has turned its head to the viewer and is gazing back ’ . |
| 24 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 25 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 26 | I wish to move an amendment which is erm , that we defer any decision on this until the property , the director of property services has made his report to the property sub- committee on the erm , future , stroke to the organisation , which is th , the subject of his next report to property sub- committee . |
| 27 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 28 | Our prime task is to capture or destroy Edward Balliol , who has sold our realm to the English . |
| 29 | Paul Devereux has drawn our attention to the Irish nature mystic , George William Russell ( who wrote under the pseudonym AE ) . |
| 30 | Just before this snarl about real life , he has betrayed his redhead to the police , by swallowing a lying excuse of hers concerning a subversive brother . |