Example sentences of "[det] has [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Leicester boss Brian Little has squashed rumours of a move to Sunderland . |
| 2 | In a number of elections in the Irish Republic both Fine Gael and Labour , its much weaker partner , have benefited thus : each has received votes transferred from the other as being surplus to the quota of candidates elected or , much more commonly , as being useless to candidates eliminated . |
| 3 | That has led firms to try to protect business relationships through buying shares . |
| 4 | That has inspired fears over potential damage to the occupants ' ears due to the sudden pressure change within European saloons which tend to be smaller than those in the US , and also to worries about the ability to control the car in the unlikely event that the bag deploys accidentally . |
| 5 | It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness . |
| 6 | It is the fact that it could turn into science , and promote a beguiling vision of mastery over nature , that has forced historians to reconsider the usual antithesis between occult and rational mentalities . |
| 7 | That has prompted investors to demand ratings from more issuers of debt and to take the ratings more seriously . |
| 8 | You are a little animal , muddling up my life , that expects to be fed and clothed , that has to have schools and presents . |
| 9 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |
| 10 | This has created problems of accountability . |
| 11 | This has led scientists to speculate that all galaxies might go through a quasar phase , then a less active phase , and finally settle into the stability typical of our own and many local galaxies . |
| 12 | This has led companies to expand their in-house basic research efforts , and to devote more resources to monitoring scientific research trends world wide and tracking the R&D activities of their competitors . |
| 13 | This has led planners to focus on the substantial private sector already in existence in some countries . |
| 14 | This has led psychologists to develop the concept of the self which is central to an individual . |
| 15 | This has led officials from the Department of Antiquities to offer rewards to anyone who helps them recover a lost item , as happened in Kirkuk where some people have already received between two and three thousand Dinars ( less than £1 ) for turning items over to the Department . |
| 16 | This has led supporters of this particular point of view to deny the premise . |
| 17 | This has led authors to suggest that a rate somewhere between these two rates should be utilized — a synthetic rate . |
| 18 | This has led vulture-investors to the bonds of other prospective bid victims such as USG , a building-materials group , American Standard , which makes plumbing fixtures , or Burlington Industries , a textiles firm . |
| 19 | This has aroused hopes that the Chinese dissident physicist , Mr Fang Lizhi , who has been given sanctuary in the US Embassy in Beijing , might be released under a Chinese guarantee that he will not be arrested . |
| 20 | This has generated howls of protest from the firms . |
| 21 | This has enabled authors to make claims and counter claims about the importance of different variables in the absence of any sustained efforts to discover which are directly and which are artefactually related to abuse . |
| 22 | In turn , this has raised concerns about the viability of such services , and what will happen if many projects have to close while still caring for people . |
| 23 | This has raised expectations of similar operations to deal with major challenges to peace and massive violations of human rights elsewhere . |
| 24 | It does , however , collect a limited amount of information on personnel practices , and as part of this has asked questions about the use of temporary workers . |
| 25 | This has encouraged teachers to turn a blind eye to LMS in the hope that somehow , somewhere , someone will do something to protect them and their pupils from ‘ it ’ . |
| 26 | This has encouraged manufacturers to doctor products with additives to preserve their shelf life . |
| 27 | Walsh emphasizes how this has advanced women 's position in US psychology , and suggests that it still provides a needed ‘ anchor of outrageousness ’ ( Albin quoted in Walsh 1985 : 24 ) . |
| 28 | It 's a difficult thing , this has taken years to get objectives and every time the old . |
| 29 | This has taken months and months to achieve . |
| 30 | This has prompted producers to consider joint ventures in the Indian subcontinent . |