Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they are highly-trained professionals , prompt action has saved many innocent lives and accounted for terrorist gunmen engaged in the act of indiscriminate killing . |
| 2 | Old rednose has had many things said and written about him . |
| 3 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 4 | CPRE pointed out that 40 UK rivers have been diagnosed as suffering from over-extraction , and removal of water from porous rocks has caused many of them to become sluggish or dry up completely . |
| 5 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 6 | The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages . |
| 7 | The bromodeoxyuridine immunohistochemical technique has overcome many of the problems associated with the tritiated thymidine technique and the accuracy of this technique has been verified by Lacy et al . |
| 8 | That uncomfortable question has faced many investors . |
| 9 | The knowledge that the failure of the business will not mean inevitable personal disaster has motivated many business people to seek shelter behind the screen of limited liability . |
| 10 | At a more modest level , we can say that legislation on restrictive practices has eliminated many cases of blatant anti-competitive behaviour and that the Director-General of Fair Trading now has powers to promote the provision of better consumer information ( e.g. the Trade Descriptions Act ) and to monitor general company behaviour . |
| 11 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 12 | The national contract has had many successes and there is a danger these could be threatened by fragmentation . |
| 13 | Over the years the Chalford Valley and surrounding area has housed many mills . |
| 14 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 15 | The constant objective has led many players to try to copy the leading golfers in the world . |
| 16 | Long experience has taught many Irishmen that they will not get from authorities national and local the benefits and services to which they consider themselves entitled without the kindly intervention of some influential personage . |
| 17 | Since the mid 1980s , increased public awareness of healthy eating has made many of us rethink our diets . |
| 18 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 19 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said many times , we should work as hard as we can in the heart of Europe to lead our partners away from the cause of Euro-dirigism and Euro-protectionism , which if allowed to develop under the influence of Madame Cresson and such people would render the entire Community less competitive in global markets and blight the prospects of the developing countries to the south and east of the existing Community . |
| 20 | The bishops'intrusion into bloody Basque politics has maddened many priests , according to Inaki Esnaola , a radical lawyer who is Herri Batasuna 's candidate for Guipuzcoa province . |
| 21 | THE world of international politics has seen many nimble U-turns . |
| 22 | Of course this taming process has taken many many years . |
| 23 | The rift between conventional and complementary medicine has had many harmful effects . |
| 24 | For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available . |
| 25 | Glasgow 's industrial history has left many large derelict sites . |
| 26 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 27 | ‘ For too long the rigid enforcement of the amateur code has allowed many companies to get miles of free advertising out of higher profile players . |
| 28 | ( Since the radioactive dust has killed many animals , the ownership of a scarce animal is greatly to be desired and very costly . |
| 29 | Crude pressure has antagonised many of its members . |
| 30 | Recent work in which an adenoma cell line was exposed to chemical carcinogens has duplicated many of the in vivo genetic findings . |