Example sentences of "the [noun prp] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Pentagon has begun a serious attempt to find out what the future shape of American defence should be , and whether the new shape will in fact save money . |
| 2 | The EEC has taken a direct interest in the problem of acid deposition , and in November 1988 a directive was agreed upon by EEC environment ministers concerning the sulphur emissions of large combustion plants . |
| 3 | In the light of this worrying development the C.C.P.R. has negotiated a Civil Liability Insurance policy , on behalf of all its members , which gives wider cover , for more people , at lower premiums that our own current policy . |
| 4 | On May 29 , 1990 , the Storting had approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne as well as males . |
| 5 | A group of leading communicators , scholars and representatives of cultural organisations from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have proposed a six-year plan to promote the production and use of locally-produced TV , film and video programmes . |
| 6 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 7 | It is celebrating its 800th anniversary this year and to mark the historic milestone the DoE has recreated a magnificent herb garden in the abbey 's grounds . |
| 8 | Since Siegfried Gohr left the Kunsthalle to become Director of the Ludwig , the Kunsthalle has become a mere exhibition space without a director and without a programme . |
| 9 | Almost simultaneously , a general election in the Netherlands had produced a Labour-led coalition . |
| 10 | A team of scientists from China , Britain and the Netherlands have produced a gloomy forecast of the impact of global warming on China by the year 2050 . |
| 11 | To deal with this , the PRS has developed a complex scale of payments for live performances . |
| 12 | One-o-one squadron originally set up in 1917 , was reformed in 1984 as one of only two refuelling squadrons , after the Falklands had shown a strategic use of air-to-air refuelling . |
| 13 | As we have seen , therefore , in the ten years since their inception , the RMCs have made a positive contribution to the provision of management education . |
| 14 | The public relations exercises of the LDDC have undergone a marked change over the past two years . |
| 15 | Over a period of 22 years , the Caldwells have tamed a rough diamond and beaten it into the gem it is today . |
| 16 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 17 | The WRU has appointed a four-man committee of inquiry to look into the events surrounding the centenary tour of South Africa last August . |
| 18 | The Scotsman disclosed last week that the CRE had begun a formal investigation into the issue , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 19 | Over the space of a decade the CNAA had become a different organization . |
| 20 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 21 | THE prospect of a rapid merging of the Germanies has provoked a fashionable fatalism about the future of the European Community . |
| 22 | The end might now be in sight , but the Eiger had exacted a grim toll for the right of passage . |
| 23 | However , the unpalatable fact was that the CPP had won a resounding triumph . |
| 24 | The USSR had had a long-standing military relationship with Afghanistan but the scale of the Soviet military intervention in that country in the 1980s and the forms it took were quite unprecedented in Soviet-Third World relations . |
| 25 | The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were acutely aware that the Republic of South Africa is the sole stable country in Africa ; that its government is opposed to the increasing presence of the USSR and China in Africa and that it controls the sea route to the Indian Ocean where the USSR has mounted a powerful naval challenge . |
| 26 | Scientists advising the IWC have taken a similar view . |
| 27 | Neither of the Glovers had used a public telephone for a long while and were astonished to find themselves confronted by a totally unfamiliar contraption . |
| 28 | The Serbs had repaired a war-damaged bridge on the road to Srebrenica , he said . |
| 29 | In its first full year of operation , the SSL has seen a marked increase in the number of users and in demand for information and other services . |
| 30 | The DSS has created a new Disability Living Allowance which merges the old attendance allowance with two new components of the mobility allowance . |