Example sentences of "the [noun prp] has [verb] 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 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The CPRE has published a 12 point charter which it says will ensure that current planning policy will not be undermined . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To deal with this , the PRS has developed a complex scale of payments for live performances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Looking to the future the TEC has produced a 1992–1995 corporate and business plan , detailing a host of initiatives . |
| 11 | The WRU has appointed a four-man committee of inquiry to look into the events surrounding the centenary tour of South Africa last August . |
| 12 | Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals . |
| 13 | THE prospect of a rapid merging of the Germanies has provoked a fashionable fatalism about the future of the European Community . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The DSS has created a new Disability Living Allowance which merges the old attendance allowance with two new components of the mobility allowance . |
| 17 | In a discussion paper , the NCC has proposed a compulsory levy on all who offer credit , including public utilities as well as banks and building societies , to help finance the growing cost of money advice . |
| 18 | The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them . |
| 19 | Chaired by Alistair Graham , Director of the Industrial Society , the TDLB has formed a 50 strong advisory committee of personnel from industry , training and education to set the standards which will form the basis of vocational qualifications for all training and development personnel . |
| 20 | The UN has set a tough target for developing countries to reach . |
| 21 | Launched in 1968 and never out of the top ten , the Wonderbra has undergone a dramatic renaissance . |
| 22 | ICI in the UK has developed a new low-energy system of charging sprays suitable for both hand-held and tractor mounted sprayers . |
| 23 | ICI Agrochemicals in the UK has developed a national curriculum science teaching pack for UK eight to ten-year-olds called ‘ Farming Tales . ’ |
| 24 | Similarly , the UK has committed a disproportionate amount of expenditure to basic research ( absorbing something like 12 per cent of professional scientific manpower ) . |
| 25 | During the last few years the EMS has become a central plank of EC policy , and Economic and MOnetary Union has become the linchpin of the project for European Union constitutionalized in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 26 | The national energy crisis in the Philippines has taken a new turn with President Fidel Ramos being granted emergency powers to charge higher rates for electricity , after the World Bank suspended a $250 million loan to the state-owned National Power Corporation . |
| 27 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 28 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 29 | The ICD has added a third powerful treatment method to coronary revascularisation and antiarrhythmic drug therapies for the management of cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 30 | The ALA has had a major influence in redesigning the police recruitment forms , which have gone through three drafts since the Met tried to interest Labour councils in their campaign to attract more ethnic minority officers . |