Example sentences of "[conj] has [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 2 | War has frequently brought new nations into existence , as did the American War of Independence and many other wars fought for national liberation or unification , both earlier and later , or has destroyed old political systems ; and defeat in war has sometimes created conditions favourable to a successful internal revolution , as in Russia in 1917 , or to the emergence of independent nations from an imperial system , as in the Habsburg Empire in 1918 . |
| 3 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
| 4 | This means that the ‘ fact ’ that an individual has become an ‘ old person ’ , or suffers from regular illness or pain , or has become dependent upon others , whilst an important part of our understanding , is less important than how these facts make the individual feel . |
| 5 | And if anybody 's been away and has got or has got missing sheets I 've got spare sheets down here . |
| 6 | In the US edition he wonders if ‘ this man … has been bribed or has used improper influence in any way ’ . |
| 7 | High Court grants permission for full trial of solicitor accused of negligence over £4m will after six-year wrangle that has tied legal profession in knots Milestone in brother 's ‘ crusade for justice ’ . |
| 8 | One area that has received special attention is the text of the Admission and Call Declarations : these have been redrafted , although the final draft has yet to be approved . |
| 9 | Indeed it 's the complexity of the two units and their additional protein skimmers , U/V units and other extras that has led New Wave 's Geoff Saunders to seek out a distribution network of high-quality shops and shop owners who can really sell and explain the virtues of the system . |
| 10 | In the coalescence of Christian tradition , this is one principle that has remained constant . |
| 11 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 12 | It is also important to perceive the National Insurance Act as the sort of response to the problem of unemployment that has remained dominant in Britain . |
| 13 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 14 | While this has sometimes been aimed at the complete subversion and overthrow of the established political order , as in the case of the Bader-Meinhoff group in West Germany and the Italian Red Brigades , more recently it is concern over nuclear weapons , and specifically the installation of cruise missiles that has engendered extra-constitutional forms of dissent both in this country and abroad . |
| 15 | The calculus on which he based his explanation was , therefore , a neat and self-fulfilling testimony to the record of the LLP ; and yet it is one that has survived intact . |
| 16 | ‘ Rough stuff , of the half-simulated sort that has diverted modern television audiences , was popular from the start . |
| 17 | This organisation is an industry lead and awarding body that has developed national standards and assessment material to support vocational qualifications and SCOTVEC awards in engineering at a variety of levels up to technician . |
| 18 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 19 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 20 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 21 | It has been a lack of progress on other fundamental changes in society that has made effective implementation of either programme so difficult . |
| 22 | The paper by Wells reports some findings from a British longitudinal study of child language acquisition that has made extensive naturalistic recordings of adults and children 's speech both at home and school . |
| 23 | The first is the launch by Corin of a revolutionary universal hip that enables surgeons to tailor hip replacements to the patient , whilst the second is the advance by AEA of a technique for measuring bone density that has made early detection of bone wastage possible for the first time . |
| 24 | The technical trick that has made cheap laser-printers possible has also brought type design and typesetting to a far wider market . |
| 25 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 26 | All of which , however , little solves the problem of why , Willis and Botham apart , and on their day Lewis and DeFreitas , have England been unable to produce a fraction of the talent that has flowed unabated , and appears still bottomless , from this tiny cluster of Caribbean islands ? |
| 27 | The problem is , of course , that child abuse work is all too often conducted under enormous time and resource pressures , and may at times have to be done under the glare of unwelcome publicity or in the aftermath of an incident that has aroused public concern . |
| 28 | The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 29 | Most of these studies have produced results consistent with the suggestion that interference occurs at retrieval , finding that a CS that has undergone latent inhibition training will be relatively ineffective in evoking its CR when it is presented in the context used for pre-exposure . |
| 30 | Sometimes a parent has suffered an illness that has caused mental change or changes in personality , and the family has already gone through much of the bereavement process beforehand . |