Example sentences of "[adj] has [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 3 | In that time , the giant multinational has bought a 40 per cent stake in the company that runs south Crofty ( which also operates a small mine at Pendarves ) as well as 18 per cent of the shares in Geevor . |
| 4 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 5 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 6 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 7 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 8 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |
| 9 | Here , Dr Dick Hobbs , one of Britain 's foremost criminologists , believes Labour has learnt an important lesson from the Conservatives . |
| 10 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 11 | Roth Scientific has announced the Suprex MPS 22 SFE-SFC system . |
| 12 | The chromatography company J & W Scientific has introduced an upgraded column with increased sensitivity through lower chemical activity , the DB-5ms , for both GC and GC/MS systems . |
| 13 | Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users . |
| 14 | It had to be done , and he had known it would not be popular , but he added : ‘ Anyone who becomes Chancellor in order to be popular has chosen the wrong job . ’ |
| 15 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 16 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 17 | In the event , the crossing of the very new with the very old has produced an entirely new race of roses that combine the softer colour and fragrance charms of the old with the advantages of the modern forms . |
| 18 | The gharial has evolved the most extraordinarily long , slim , almost beak-like jaws , which have been described as looking like the handle of a saucepan . |
| 19 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 20 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 21 | The knowledge that the additional information was favourable has lifted the probability of project success from a prior probability of 0·6 to a posterior probability of 0·87 . |
| 22 | The knowledge that the additional information was favourable has lifted the probability of project success from a prior probability of 0.6 to a posterior probability of 0.87 . |
| 23 | Surprisingly the courts have distinguished deviation cases from ones in which the accused has obtained the use of a conveyance by fraud . |
| 24 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 25 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 26 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 27 | Photech Engineering Ltd. has produced an underwater housing system for format cameras which allows the user to start with a basic housing system and build on it , take full advantage of their camera system and even to change camera systems altogether at a relatively small cost . |
| 28 | However , a provision in the contract to the effect the property does not pass until Y Ltd. has paid the price , will not entirely meet X 's needs . |
| 29 | The young orang-utans are sold abroad ; in Taiwan , where a television series portraying them as cute and cuddly has created a demand for orang-utan pets , they fetch up to £6,000 . |
| 30 | But this does not mean that the ethical has to renounce the moral order in the political world of the third person — of justice , of government , institutions , or the law . |