Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 2 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 3 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 4 | This situation — where one man , eminent as he is , nevertheless has to carry out a huge amount of work effectively on his own , mirrors the two previous demutualisations — is a situation many believe should not have been repeated . |
| 5 | The Rangers Service has to carry out a fine balancing act — too many visitors could destroy the very habitat the rangers are trying to conserve . |
| 6 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 7 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 8 | C & w World has to pull together a huge number of companies under the umbrella of the parent group , including Hong Kong Telecom and an 80 per cent share of Mercury in the UK . |
| 9 | Mirroring Sun Microsystems Inc 's efforts in this area ( UX No 386 ) Hewlett-Packard Co has rolled out a new range of ISDN connectivity enabling standalone workstations to communicate over public or private ISDN networks . |
| 10 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 11 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 12 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 13 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 14 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 15 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 16 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
| 17 | Stemberger ( 1984 ) has carried out a recent study of lexical errors produced by normal adult native speakers of English in natural speech settings . |
| 18 | The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools . |
| 19 | Its authors are well qualified : Robin Callander was specialist adviser to the Agriculture Select Committee and is partner in a small estate near Braemar , while Neil MacKenzie has carried out a major preview of Scotland 's native woodlands . |
| 20 | Retired fire officer Terry Cooper has carried out a comprehensive survey of all the war memorials within a ten mile radius of York . |
| 21 | Since then NMW has carried out a heavy rationalisation programme and the return to profits has come despite a fall in turnover from £5.92m to £4.66m . |
| 22 | This group has carried out a large multicentre study on glucose tolerance in normal pregnancy . |
| 23 | FENASTRAS has carried out a huge campaign to try and get her released and produce almost weekly protests against her disappearance in the main newspapers of San Salvador . |
| 24 | Numberless are the ministers who have come to grief at the height of their peroration as a child has let out a deep sigh , articulating the inner feelings of some and distracting into amusement the rest of the congregation who were listening . |
| 25 | The huge world market out there was worth $330 billion between 1989 and 1992 , but the industry has won only a small share of that business . |
| 26 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 27 | The questionnaire has built up a socio-economic background to the financial and physical environment that family and part-time farmers have to live in . |
| 28 | The general issue of reconciling with his academic interests the feeling of social commitment to an underprivileged group with whom the researcher has built up a strong feeling of empathy is discussed by Labov ( 1982b ) ; this discussion forms a preliminary to his account of the use made of linguistic evidence by the defendants in the famous Black English Trial in Michigan . |
| 29 | Over the years , Michael has built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide , who visit whenever in London . |
| 30 | It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country . |