Example sentences of "[conj] has [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , however , it needs to be ascertained whether this land is still owned by you , or has become the property of the airport authorities . |
| 2 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
| 3 | Up to a quarter of the population has either been displaced or has left the country since 1980 . |
| 4 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 5 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 6 | There is still a wonderful tolerance about a place that has spawned the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence headed by Sadie the Rabbi Lady ; Dykes on Bikes ; the Pagan Drumming Circle ; the prostitutes ' rights group COYOTE ; and the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir . |
| 7 | But first there 's the small matter of a semi-final clash that has split the household down the middle . |
| 8 | In a country that has pushed the technology to the limit , the French confidence that nuclear power is safe and unproblematic was overwhelming and saddening . |
| 9 | Mr Smith condemned him as the man who ‘ designed and delivered the disaster ’ that has pushed the nation into economic crisis and into the Second Division of Europe . |
| 10 | Now , after a battle that has intrigued the City for weeks , Owners will be free to put to its shareholders its originally-proposed link-up with another holiday giant , Thomas Cook . |
| 11 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 12 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 13 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 14 | That is yet more Tory doublespeak for a decade that has seen the Government inspire a decline in coal production from 120 million tonnes per annum to 91 million tonnes ; for a decline in employment from 223,000 jobs to 74,000 jobs and for the closure of more than two thirds of our collieries . |
| 15 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 16 | Chairman Ken Bates acted after a run of 12 matches without a win that has seen the club eliminated from both major cup competitions and slump from title-chasing territory to mid-table . |
| 17 | There has been no area , there 's been no need or entitlement that has escaped the Thatcher and the Majorite acts . |
| 18 | It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years . |
| 19 | The West 's new weapons do not represent a new dimension in warfare ; rather , they continue the strategy that has kept the peace in Europe for 40 years |
| 20 | Now , as socialism knocks on the door of Number 10 , the Hoorays are preparing to go back underground , adopting once again the protective colouring that has kept the British upper classes safe and sound while heads have rolled all over Europe . |
| 21 | Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day . |
| 22 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
| 23 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 24 | The island is seen as a microcosm of the world and this is part of Golding 's style that has remained the same throughout the book . |
| 25 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 26 | The food must not only be disguised , but also given in sufficient quantity , a task that has taxed the ingenuity of many a researcher ( see p91 and p92 ) . |
| 27 | The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things — primarily at its main predators , snakes . |
| 28 | It now , persists , it may be said , because of a non-rational or irrational longing on the part of philosophers to have order in the universe , a longing that has replaced the lost comfort of a belief in an all-governing God . |
| 29 | COMPLETED FERTILITY — The number of live births born to a woman or to a female cohort that has reached the end of the childbearing age or become sterile . |
| 30 | Dent is a throwback to medieval times bypassed by modern progress , an anachronism that has survived the passing years . |