Example sentences of "[adj] has [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This has highlighted a number of shortcomings in the technical arrangements . |
| 32 | In old buildings this has become a problem , but one we have overcome by the design of modular cabinets . |
| 33 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 34 | Above all , what is clear is that this has become a poker game only for those with the steadiest of nerves . |
| 35 | This has become a commonplace of gerontology , yet — among the general public — jokes are still made as to old so and so being " past it " , and the elderly man with a young wife still tends to be a figure of mockery or disapprobation ( the elderly woman with a young husband even more so ) . |
| 36 | In 1984–5 the sector returned a loss of £157million ; in one of the most dramatic business turnrounds in recent years this has become a £24million profit in 1988–9 . |
| 37 | This has become a Place where the man who cares passionately for his craft — lighting or stage work — comes to show what he really can do . |
| 38 | This has become a reality through the hard work of staff at SCRE , particularly Rosemary Wake and a sturdy group of SERA members who meet to discuss future issues of Observations and plan the development of the network . |
| 39 | Even if well fed , they can not stop searching and exploring , as this has become an end in itself in their behaviour repertoire . |
| 40 | This has scotched a plan by hunters in the forest of Trysil , 200 km north of Oslo , to kill three wolves whose tracks have been found on the border with Sweden . |
| 41 | On the other hand , as we have changed to electricity , because of the inefficiency of the electricity generating process this has reflected an increase in the primary fuel consumption by the nation for domestic purposes , and this is true of most western countries that the consumption in the home has not increased , but changing to electricity increasingly has led to burning more oil and coal nationally to produce this constant home demand . |
| 42 | This has unleashed a wave of militant anti-Communist demagogy in the pre-election period . |
| 43 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 44 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 45 | This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation . |
| 46 | This has left an economy largely isolated from the most advanced countries , with one of the world 's highest levels of consumption per capita of energy and steel . |
| 47 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 48 | This has got a stain on it . |
| 49 | This has got a microphone on it , but |
| 50 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |
| 51 | None of this has produced a rise in fertility . |
| 52 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 53 | This has produced a type with the upright carriage and bearing of the H.T. , but which flowers in clusters like the Polyantha . |
| 54 | This has produced a file called ‘ A ’ which is marked as ‘ hidden ’ . |
| 55 | This has produced a Texel , referred to in Holland as the Texelaar , that breeds consistently true to type and when used as a terminal sire leaves progeny of level quality . |
| 56 | The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures . |
| 57 | This has meant a change in the role of carers and a move towards short-term placement . |
| 58 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |
| 59 | This has meant a decline in the number of applications for admission to the Home in recent years , and with the certain reduction in the numbers at the Home in the future by death , it was obvious that the Home — to use a common words these days — was no longer " viable " . |
| 60 | This has included a comparison with the practice of our partners and allies . |