Example sentences of "of [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The absence of a clear definition of consent has left the police with some leeway to interpret the law for themselves . |
| 32 | For Julie Crew what should be a time of joy has become a time of pain and misery . |
| 33 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 34 | The unpredictability of intervention has laid the judges open to charges of political bias . |
| 35 | This type of business has expanded a lot in recent years , largely as a result of the expansion of the Sunday colour supplements . |
| 36 | At the very least , the growth of tourism has affected the environment by prompting the construction of hotel and resort complexes , nature trails and safari parks etc . |
| 37 | Any definition of behaviour has to incorporate the context of behaviour and its meaning for the participants . |
| 38 | The Open University offers several educational post-experience options leading to a Diploma in educational Studies , and Dundee College of Education has pioneered a correspondence course in teaching geography to suit local need . |
| 39 | Newcastle University 's School of Education has won a £15,000 Audit Commission contract to study pupils ' attainment at GCSE . |
| 40 | The British pattern of development has limited the extent of corporate interests within the state , certainly when compared with Spain ( see below ) . |
| 41 | This sense of a loss of control has demoralised the markets more than any other factor . |
| 42 | The Finnish Ministry of Environment has rejected the WWF 's proposal for a ban on the building of holiday homes in the area . |
| 43 | The Department of Environment has confirmed the figure of 1,300 problem waste disposal sites . |
| 44 | The Department of Environment has produced a leaflet for businesses that introduces the provisions of the duty of care for waste under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 . |
| 45 | Apart from the argument that there is simply too much government ( eleven state parliaments and governments , a bi-cameral federal parliament and a federal cabinet with 39 ministers , all for a country with less than half the population of Britain ( 26 million ) ) , it seems clear that the policy of bilingualism has rendered the government opaque and bureaucratic . |
| 46 | For a long time , the secrecy maintained by protagonists of drainage has given the impression that they have something to hide . |
| 47 | Once the period of notice has expired the LEA must proceed with the assessment , provided it considers it appropriate having regard to the representations which have been made . |
| 48 | His passionate belief that technology is a tool to be used with imagination for the benefit of mankind has inspired a generation of designers of buildings of all disciplines ’ . |
| 49 | However , the evolution of mankind has reached the point where it is better to leave religion behind , for it does comprise ‘ a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality , such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia , in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion ’ . |
| 50 | Nobody yet in the whole history of mankind has had the strength to resist doing what lies in their power to do , just to prove that they can . |
| 51 | The abolition of escheat has meant the abolition of the last of the practical consequences of free tenure . |
| 52 | The recent change of policy has unfrozen a flood of music by younger figures who have not undergone similar cultural repression , though the conditions of their work remain poignant and precarious . |
| 53 | Even the control of birth has played a part in it , although we are not very much in favour of how it is done by the system . |
| 54 | So work , which is a general aspect of life has become a thing — a ‘ job ’ and aspects of nature which in reality are continuous , like time and space , are named as a collection of small items like ‘ minutes ’ of time , or ‘ miles ’ of land . |
| 55 | The new form of poaching has replaced the killing of deer for meat as the price of venison has dropped ; a single set of antlers is reported to fetch several hundred pounds . |
| 56 | On the other hand the loss of heather has meant a contraction of the breeding-grounds for birds like golden plover , dunlin , and perhaps whimbrel , although the post-breeding flocks of these species seem to favour the re-seeded grassland . |
| 57 | The Secretary of State has asked the Employment Service to continue to improve the standard of service it offers in accordance with Citizen 's Charter principles and the expectations of its clients . |
| 58 | The Secretary of State has asked the Employment Service to develop in 1993–94 , for possible use in 1994–5 , a target or targets for relevant elements of the Jobseeker 's charter that are not presently covered by existing Annual Performance Agreement targets . |
| 59 | The Secretary of State has noted the panels suggestion that the boundaries of the Greater York area should be outside the York greenbelt area . |
| 60 | To enable the Chief Executive to meet the performance requirements contained in this Agreement , a gross total of £1,392.8 million will be made available to the Agency , being the sum for which the Secretary of State has gained the approval of Parliament under Vote 2 of the 1993–94 Supply Estimates for the Employment Department Group . |