Example sentences of "[pron] has [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which poet described a politician as ‘ an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man ’ ? |
| 2 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 3 | Something no-one has done in a balloon before . |
| 4 | We have already heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) suggest that there should be a further element which would take into account the length of time that someone has lived in a house . |
| 5 | Attention has also focused on British merger policy which has operated in a self-regulatory framework , rather than a statutory one . |
| 6 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 7 | Although it 's a problem which has existed for a long , long time , do you do any work in connection with refugees ? |
| 8 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
| 9 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 10 | A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births . |
| 11 | I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years . |
| 12 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
| 13 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 14 | A mixture of language ( usually incorporating English or French ) which has developed into a language in its own right . |
| 15 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 16 | Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Appleby said : ‘ This is a long-established business with a reputation for quality workmanship which has suffered from a series of bad debts and disputed accounts . ’ |
| 18 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 19 | Second has been the revival of interest in neocatastrophism which has arisen as a concept which acknowledges the significance , and in some cases the dominance , of events of greater magnitude and low frequency . |
| 20 | I do not know whether the Minister would agree that , until now , we have heard explanations from both sides of the Chamber about the imperfect and expensive competition which has arisen as a result of the privatisation of the electricity supply industry . |
| 21 | Thus in ( 191 ) , to feel evokes a new state of awareness which has arisen as a result of the combined effect on the reader 's mind of novels and tales previously selected for this purpose . |
| 22 | British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford . |
| 23 | Recently , some Zambian churches have combined to produce the weekly Zambia Mirror , which has met with a degree of success . |
| 24 | Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’ |
| 25 | The local labour is mainly in small factories of 20–300 people which has led to a reputation for good relations between workers and managers . |
| 26 | The problem of childcare is aggravated by the high divorce rate ( over 60% in Moscow and 33% elsewhere ) which has led to a large number of single parent families . |
| 27 | However , the attempts to improve the position of the tenant have interfered with the market mechanism , which has led to a decline in the supply of accommodation on offer . |
| 28 | The organisation 's second point , as the chart shows , is that industry has been the unintended victim of high inflation , which has led to a significantly higher corporate tax take than the Lawson reforms of 1984 intended . |
| 29 | An employee package has been developed which has led to a large proportion of the authority 's employees being paid by automated direct credit through BACS . |
| 30 | The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed . |