Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] has [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 2 | But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground . |
| 3 | For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around . |
| 4 | Furthermore , this lack of a detailed history of Conservatism has handicapped the study of Thatcherism itself , for the absence of a clear historical perspective has ensured that , in spite of the proliferation of literature , the ideological origins of the Thatcherite Revolution remain obscure . |
| 5 | But now the 95 workers are out of a job … the Ministry of Defence has given the contract to supply uniforms to workers in Morocco instead . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Defence has made no comment on the report . |
| 7 | The Ministry of Defence has accepted the sacking was unlawful . |
| 8 | The Ministry of Defence has put a rather unusual property on the market . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 11 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 12 | A report published by a review body for the Ministry of Agriculture has described the current badger slaughter policy of the Ministry as " unconvincing " . |
| 13 | The impact of electronics has revolutionised the printing business which continues to develop new technology in every branch of the trade — photo-typesetting and printing . |
| 14 | This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism , fluidity and reach of adolescence , its true pretentiousness . |
| 15 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 16 | According to this report , privity of contract has remained the main obstacle to the modernization of English bill of lading law . |
| 17 | The far Left is riven by fierce factional divisions both between Marxists and non-Marxists , and between different schools of Marxist thought , and the chiliastic vision of anarchism has remained a distinctly minority current . |
| 18 | Suddenly , the air of civility has turned a little sour , and the accusations of impropriety from the Mexican should only encourage Clinton and his supporters . |
| 19 | The idea of consumerism has experienced an important dialectical inversion in recent years . |
| 20 | Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : Although the new school is still planned , lack of funding has delayed the start yet again and the county council wish to include the island site , between Rake Road and Mill Road , in the sale of the land occupied by the existing school to maximise resources . ’ |
| 21 | An air of fear has replaced the sense of purpose which marked the Sankara years . |
| 22 | The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Witold Krassowski : Images of Poland , a long history of oppression has made the Polish people tough , with a strong sense of national identity . |
| 24 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 25 | ‘ The human standard of living has become the planet 's standard of dying . |
| 26 | However , this form of investment has proved a dangerous risk for clients . |
| 27 | The USSR 's legacy of vulnerability has left an indelible mark ; even in the new found era of military boldness and ‘ operational confidence ’ , adversaries are always on the verge of undoing previous gains , military planners face ‘ harrowing choices and uncertainties ’ . |
| 28 | General takes on task of taming volatile valley As Kashmir gets a new governor , Rahul Bedi looks at the way three years of violence has affected the lives of people in the troubled state |
| 29 | Many off-road drivers see it as a challenge and while a voluntary code of practice has reduced the number of cars and bikes on Sundays and bank holidays , some are still upsetting the walkers and riders . |
| 30 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |