Example sentences of "[that] have [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years .
2 Of all the existing means of mass communication , it is only the press that has spawned a set of ‘ theories ’ to explain and to justify its actions and its purposes .
3 Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters .
4 However , the job itself , as we have already noted , is rarely the cause of disenchantment with agriculture — indeed , in a decade that has seen a renewed interest in the countryside among young people and a growing desire to escape from the urban rat-race , agriculture could have much to offer .
5 A site that has adopted a state of the art approach to its payroll systems will have :
6 He hopes , as all prime ministers do , that the shake-up will put an end to the back-biting and snarling that has reached a nasty pitch since the Newbury by-election and local-council humiliations three weeks ago .
7 There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine .
8 The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example .
9 In April 1961 , when making recordings on the Carlisle-Edinburgh ‘ Waverley ’ route that has made a niche in the hearts of so many railway enthusiasts , Peter Handford had spent the day on Whitrope summit , but had eventually abandoned attempts at recording because of the unfavourable direction of the wind .
10 Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels .
11 Violent headaches which may be from exposure to a dry cold wind that has stopped a nasal catarrh from flowing .
12 It is a curving half-mile of cottages and assorted buildings lining a single street and facing a loch that has carved a channel inland from the open sea and given the village its name .
13 Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses !
14 Will my right hon. Friend consider early-day motion 209 , which relates to a British company that has achieved a wonderful contract in Kenya ?
15 Silk Slippers enabled Sangster — slowly-sinking in the super league of owners — to regain a foothold by wearing down the red-hot favourite , Moon Cactus , owned ironically by Sheikh Mohammed , in the dying strides of an event that has become a fertile proving ground for Classic fillies .
16 Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons .
17 One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form .
18 Then Protagoras went further in saying that ‘ man is the measure of things ’ , a saying that has become a secular creed for modern times .
19 Once it meant political independence and freedom from commercial pressures , but given the increasingly prescriptive and bureaucratic nature of grant-aid that has become a dubious notion .
20 In classical biological control , a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence .
21 You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage .
22 But Korn/Ferry have not developed the teamwork approach that has become a hallmark of Russell Reynolds .
23 But his interest in them came out in a unique way almost twenty years ago when he founded a shop that has become a fixture on Prince Street Untitled .
24 Whereas a course of dealing can incorporate a term that has in effect become customary between the two parties in question , trade usage can incorporate a term that has become a custom amongst all the buyers and sellers dealing in the environment in question .
25 AUDREY HEPBURN is up to her cat-like eyes in murder and dirty double crossing in this clever comedy thriller that has become a film classic .
26 Wales fullback Tony Clement typifies the never-say-die spirit that has underpinned a revival in Wales fortunes as he dips his shoulder in an attempt to avoid Brendan Mullin 's cover tackle .
27 It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory .
28 One of the major social phenomena in Latin America since the Second world war and one that has had a profound effect on the social transformation of the continent , is the urban explosion .
29 It is an assumption that has had a profound and , it is now seen , a damaging effect on schools .
30 Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter .
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