Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 2 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 3 | But since being clad , it has looked just like a 19th-century bridge . ’ |
| 4 | Our production capacity has grown again with a weekly throughput now of over 800 tabloid pages . ’ |
| 5 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 6 | Second , heroin use has grown rapidly from a small baseline , and , whilst we shall have to describe the prevalence of heroin use ‘ hidden ’ from agencies , particularly in middle-class areas , it is not a long-standing activity suddenly discovered by labellers which is redefined as a problem . |
| 7 | MDC has clearly demonstrated a capacity to realise physical renewal of its initial area and has operated effectively as a single-purpose agency . |
| 8 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 9 | The Design Studio has expanded again with a new area custom built for their design computers . |
| 10 | It could be argued that if a claim for damages is based on a claim that a governmental body has acted illegally in a public law sense , then the damages claim should be attached to an AJR and be saddled with the same procedural restrictions as would apply to an AJR . |
| 11 | David Porter , MP for Waveney , has called consistently for a national body to have overall responsibility for sea defences . |
| 12 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 13 | At times it has behaved more like a cancer-prevention than an environmental agency , making such scientifically dubious decisions as wanting to remove asbestos from school buildings and to ban substances with a microscopically small risk of causing cancer . |
| 14 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 15 | A manager has to believe totally in a new act . |
| 16 | Manuel Lujan , the interior secretary , has grumbled loudly about a Japanese firm taking over a company operating under a government concession in Yosemite National Park . |
| 17 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 18 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 19 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 20 | She pointed out how to deal with a child , for example , who has run away near a busy road : ‘ You should explain to a child that it is creating danger , or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 21 | In other words for every three pounds , thirty membership fee , the National Federation it has to pay just over a forty nine pence to Customs and Excise . |
| 22 | Many objects offer clues that tell us how they were made — an air bubble in a piece of mouth-blown glass , or the tell-tale edge that the join in the mould has left all around a cast-iron object , or the impression of a paw print left by a stray cat on a Roman clay roof tile . |
| 23 | Banking involvement in the MBO scene has contracted sharply as a whole tier of European and Far Eastern banks , which took on MBO debt in the eighties because of the lucrative margins available , melted away and left the field to a handful of long-standing domestic participants such as NatWest , Barclays and Bank of Scotland . |
| 24 | They now have equipment to make locating whales and chasing them more efficient , but otherwise the method has changed little in a hundred years . |
| 25 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |