Example sentences of "[adj] has [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 2 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 3 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 4 | But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago . |
| 5 | ‘ I only get tax relief on the first £30,000 , so that has remained the same . |
| 6 | That has threatened the whole concept of compulsory competitive tendering and we will keep threatening the government 's compulsory competitive tendering regime by using TUPE and the acquired rights directive as the legal shield to protect our members ' jobs and public services from the Tylers of this world . |
| 7 | It was the latter suggestion , and how it was put into practice , that has enslaved the working man to this day . |
| 8 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
| 9 | That has brought the Gwili Railway alone six members to date , to say nothing of the other railway societies I have joined . |
| 10 | That has settled the whole matter . |
| 11 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 12 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 13 | This has given the present city its innumerable trees , its many green spaces , and its fine views and prospects . |
| 14 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 15 | This has led the funding bodies ( SERC , NERC , Agricultural and Medical Research Councils ) to introduce a sanctions policy , whereby departments will be penalized , by the withholding of research grants , where more than a given proportion of their students fail to submit theses . |
| 16 | This has led the National Park Authority to propose issuing guidelines for such events . |
| 17 | This has replaced the old portable harmonium so familiar to former generations of service personnel . |
| 18 | Among other effects this has freed the old Gotthard road between Fluelen and the Gotthard Pass from most through traffic ( as , indeed , it also freed the southern section of that road beyond the pass into the Ticino ) . |
| 19 | This has become the standard Tory party-point in which the Labour Party can be linked with the ecological disaster areas of the no-growth communist world . |
| 20 | And indeed , this has become the dominant twentieth century dogma about incest avoidance . |
| 21 | It is easy to see why this has become the best-loved of all his works . |
| 22 | Consequently , the United States has tended to be most vociferous about a ‘ peace process ’ when this has excluded the Soviet Union , and promised a solution which would strengthen American influence in the region . |
| 23 | From this has come the immense development of Justice and Peace Commissions , both in Rome and throughout the Catholic world , which have greatly helped bring to fruition a whole new dimension of church life , a social activism concerned with the service of the poor , of economic justice and of genuine peace ( Paul VI later declared that ‘ Development is the new name for Peace ’ ) . |
| 24 | This has heightened the political risk of doing it . |
| 25 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 26 | This has prompted the National Farmers ' Union to establish a telephone ‘ help desk ’ to deal with queries about taxation and VAT . |
| 27 | This has coaxed the three Ochoa brothers , who run a blue-chip Medellin cocaine business , to give themselves up . |
| 28 | This has left the armed forces short of modern equipment . |
| 29 | This has slashed the pre-tax profit figure from £47.7m to Pounds 43.8m for the year to September .. |
| 30 | In conjunction with the new mezzanines , this has boosted the total floor area from 45,000 to 65,000 square feet . |