Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will also want to prove just how much he has matured both as a player and as a man . |
| 2 | If the form book is followed , his semi-final opponent will be Parrott whose season , after wins in Dubai and the United Kingdom Open , has fallen away under a welter of off-the-table commitments . |
| 3 | However , since 1983/84 local government expenditure has fallen slightly as a proportion of GNP and one would question the usefulness of the Retail Price Index as a measure of inflation within local government . |
| 4 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 5 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 6 | I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today . |
| 7 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 8 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 9 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 10 | Brandmakers , whose ambitions were profiled here last week , has grown rapidly to a turnover of about £1.7m . |
| 11 | Section 35 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 empowers the courts to require any person who has committed an offence to compensate anyone who has suffered adversely as a result of his crime . |
| 12 | At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque . |
| 13 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 14 | Howard hugs her , and has to look away for a moment , he is so moved . |
| 15 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 16 | Saatchi has sold exclusively through a dealer called Larry Gagosian , well known in New York as a ruthless specialist in what is known as the secondary market . |
| 17 | Another kind of linking drill is where the language helper writes a series of separate sentences which the learner has to combine appropriately into a paragraph . |
| 18 | The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator . |
| 19 | A teacher who suspects that a colleague has acted improperly towards a pupil must not be deterred from disclosing his or her concern because of fears about the effect on employment prospects . |
| 20 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 21 | And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits . |
| 22 | Durham Green Party has criticised the Government 's plan to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 , and has called instead for a 50pc reduction . |
| 23 | Robinson , 38 , who began his West career as a winger 20 years ago but has played mostly as a back row forward , will also play for Darlington next season . |
| 24 | The Old Swan has become home for a Sunday School class , in order to offer customers a spiritual experience of a different kind . |
| 25 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 26 | The street was full of goldsmiths and silversmiths and their assistants and apprentices at the time : Messrs. Cook , Ive , Sarl , Hyams and others all appear in the commercial directories for that year , along with the tobacconists , Fribourg and Treyer , whose shop in Haymarket has persisted almost as an anachronism into the 1980s . |
| 27 | One major theme , already mentioned in the previous chapter , is the search for co-ordination , a search that has figured prominently in a number of urban programmes . |
| 28 | Mark has settled well after a hiccough at the start . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom has spoken bilaterally to a number of countries about the non-proliferation treaty . |
| 30 | It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation . |