Example sentences of "[adj] has [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 3 | WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France . |
| 4 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 5 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 6 | Under this third prohibition , therefore , a marriage between a stepson and his stepmother was void , but the Marriage ( prohibited Degrees of Relationship ) Act 1986 has provided an exception . |
| 7 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 8 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 9 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 10 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 11 | Where that has happened an order may be made under section 61(1) directing steps to be taken to remedy the contravention . |
| 12 | For Pearce , with his strong belief in personal contacts , that has meant a lot of travel to different parts of the world . |
| 13 | Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid . |
| 14 | This has stimulated an awareness of the very different ways that women support each other , work around issues of parenthood and career and seek to redress an art market that continues to marginalise them . |
| 15 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 16 | This has created a capital structure more suitable for a listed company . |
| 17 | This has created a vacancy for a full-time post in the Eastern Counties , for one year initially . |
| 18 | This has created a temptation to explain the passing of the radical reforms by pointing to the absence of the ‘ conservative ’ Kimon and his 4000 ‘ conservative ’ hoplites . |
| 19 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 20 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 21 | This has necessitated a concern with the movement and transformation of energy in the atmospheric boundary layer , in the plant cover and in the soil so that progress could be made towards understanding the mechanism of energy and moisture exchange . |
| 22 | ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods . |
| 23 | This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world . |
| 24 | ‘ What I meant was do you wish to pull in somewhere till this has eased a bit ? ’ |
| 25 | This has traumatised a company that traditionally gave its employees an implicit job-for-life promise . |
| 26 | But this has cast a shadow over the College . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a question of some of the wiring not being routed in the correct way and in some cases this has caused a chafing or a short circuit , ’ said a Vauxhall spokesman yesterday . |
| 28 | All this has caused a lot of tension in our marriage . |
| 29 | All this has reinforced a mood of debt reduction and rebuilding of savings back to levels that were broadly maintained throughout the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | To some degree , this has reinforced a kind of ‘ nostalgia ’ for the past when rural societies were thought to be organized as relatively undivided ‘ communities ’ . |