Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I recognise that that provision has limited payments to my hon. Friend 's constituents , but it is no longer limiting payments to doctors because , as of April of this year , it no longer applies .
2 And a solid defence has kept Derry 's challenge alive in the tightest finish ever to a League of Ireland season .
3 That decision has split walkers .
4 Current holder the LIFESPAN user name of the person to whom the SPR was most recently passed , whether that user has accepted responsibility for it or not .
5 Nevertheless , above the placard speed a severe gust can raise the loads on the wings and cause damage before the weak link has had time to break and relieve the situation .
6 Economic recession has forced consumers to reassess the need to update their wardrobe every six months , while conservation awareness has begun to cause some clothes lovers to approach fashion anew .
7 I understand that that support has averaged £250,000 over the past three years .
8 you know , how that change has taken place and I as I say we we were we were compared to some we were well off , we 'd got a tap in the house.So many people had n't even got a tap they were in the yard , and that tap was shared by a dozen families .
9 But Maastricht 's hesitant progress has made firms ( and , indeed , governments ) jumpy again .
10 But the guilty verdict has reavealed Jones to be , in the judges words , a wicked man .
11 The two areas where the greatest change has taken place is in baits and approach .
12 Where no charge is registered , the registrar , if otherwise prepared to accept the application , may well be prepared to register the restriction without the land certificate provided he is satisfied that severance has taken place ( see Ruoff and Roper , Registered Conveyancing , Looseleaf edn , Sweet and Maxwell , 1991 , 39.21 ) .
13 An armed gang has stolen jewels worth more than five million pounds from London 's Hatton Garden .
14 Since no legislation has been passed to reduce socio-economic inequalities in industrial discipline and since trade union activity has not been concerned with such issues either , it is almost certain that little change has taken place in the years since this study .
15 ‘ We are delighted that Shell has joined forces with us for this exciting project , which we feel holds a great deal of promise , ’ said Rupert Kidd , LOPL 's general manager .
16 In a bid to defuse local hostility to the scheme , the 150-strong club has offered Braintree District Council a range of conditions it says would be acceptable if planners granted permission .
17 Little research has studied adults who got to the stage of applying to do a course but who then did not enrol for it .
18 A decade of economic stagnation has forced families to turn schoolchildren into breadwinners .
19 The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated .
20 That monster has ruined Riverbank ! ’ howled the creatures .
21 High-dose glucocorticoid therapy has made surgery much safer , both for tumour biopsy and for excision .
22 All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is .
23 In Britain , public sector-led investment has taken place down the M4 corridor and in the south-east .
24 That investment has provided defibrillators for more than 2,300 front-line ambulances across the country and carries through the commitment to provide a trained paramedic on each front-line ambulance by 1996 .
25 That result has helped Ardiles 's side open up a two-point lead over Frank Stapleton 's Bradford City at the top of the Second Division .
26 EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive .
27 This change has focussed attention on the effectiveness of organisations in the member states .
28 The last user to whom an SPR is passed is regarded as its current holder whether or not this user has accepted responsibility for it .
29 ‘ Only a relatively small part of this literature has stressed man 's role as a geomorphic agent , exerting a notable effect on the earth 's crust .
30 Evidence of this kind has led Dr Harrison to challenge the linking of modern work disciplines to the arrival of the factory system .
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