Example sentences of "[adj] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page 30 NY cellular telephones : McCaw Cellular has bought the half stake owned in the New York cellular telephone franchise by Metromedia . |
| 2 | Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant . |
| 3 | Conservative legislation in 1986 has extended the scope for contracting out , allowing schemes which do not necessarily compete favourably with the state scheme and also reducing the benefits available under SERPS . |
| 4 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 5 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has repealed the Statutes of Distribution altogether , and has confined the operation of the statutes of 1833 and 1859 to three specific cases . |
| 6 | We shall see that the Law of Property Act 1925 has changed the form of the ordinary legal mortgage ( see pp. 96–9 ) . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , through taking out individual DOUBLE PAYOUT PLANS , each has provided the other with a guaranteed lump sum in the event of death — in Alec 's case , at least £11,655 . |
| 8 | Each has set the archivist and potential historian technical , organizational , and intellectual problems of increasing complexity . |
| 9 | Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other . |
| 10 | Each has known the struggle and patient endurance of beginning such a work . |
| 11 | She , and many of the women like her whom I met , still does all the housework , just like before , and on top of that has to manage the effect of her husband 's traumatic discovery of something women have always known — what it feels like to be economically dependent . |
| 12 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 13 | It is an intriguing picture of how local industries have developed , and how that has affected the people who worked within it . |
| 14 | Contrary to what he said , that has enabled the industry to maintain production at much the same levels as those of 1990 . |
| 15 | That has reached the proportions of a scandal and those non-trees give a new meaning to the term ’ invisible assets ’ . |
| 16 | But it is Islam , not Christianity , that has realised the danger of privatisation and the negative and draining effect it can have on public life . |
| 17 | Not only is it impractical , and possibly unethical , to restrict psychobiological studies to work on humans and great apes but it would also mean throwing out most of the work done to date , since most of that has involved the use of non-primates like cats , hamsters , and especially rats . |
| 18 | In many cases , that has given the family an added incentive and advantage . |
| 19 | Indeed it is the ability of the Apple Macintosh to integrate text and graphics so elegantly that has driven the market forward . |
| 20 | That has left the impression that trade policy is at the mercy of ad hoc decision-making by a variety of officials . |
| 21 | We have witnessed the abolition of the local domestic business rate , the introduction of the non-domestic business rate and the way in which that has concentrated the power of decision-making still further in the hands of Ministers . |
| 22 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 23 | has responded to those by , for example , over this year there has been closed circuit television at one of the Park and Rides — I think it 's Thornhill — in consultation with the Police , and the Police have told us that that has reduced the number of crimes that have occurred and we have put |
| 24 | It is the increasing burden of excise duty , however , that has reduced the strength of mild : at the turn of the century the average gravity of mild ale in Britain was 1050 degrees , the strength of a powerful modern bitter . |
| 25 | absolute nonsense and he took an accolade for that , when in fact , it was never under any threat from European legislation , it was our own British Food Act , and that , our own interpretation of European war , that has brought the threat to us . |
| 26 | At least that has brought the police here . ’ |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 28 | And that has encouraged the Geordies to believe they still have a fighting chance of keeping him . |
| 29 | It is primarily her appearance , not the formal language of her art , that has graced the pages of Elle and Vogue magazines . |
| 30 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |