Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No amount of bombing by the IRA or murder of security force personnel has weakened the resolve or beliefs of the unionist community . |
| 2 | The programme of bulk supply of map photocopies to libraries and schools ' resource centres has continued , though the lack of funds within the local authorities has affected the speed of this . |
| 3 | The most dramatic recent resurgence of nationalism and the creation of new states has followed the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time . |
| 5 | United Technologies has sponsored the arts for about twelve years . |
| 6 | This set of essays has sketched the development , from small but imaginative beginnings , of a major Modular Course with significant institutional support . |
| 7 | In the Gezira region of the Sudan , for example , growing more sorghum and groundnuts has increased the cotton pest , the Heliothis boll worm . |
| 8 | According to China 's news agency Xinhua , which appears to have good contacts inside Afghanistan , a group of mujaheddin field commanders has rejected the Peshawar government and wants the United Nations to settle the civil war . |
| 9 | ‘ The drop in turnouts has to terrify the Democrats , ’ says Paul Tsongas , the former senator who mocked Clinton 's 41 per cent in New York by scoring 29 per cent even though he had already declared his candidacy over . |
| 10 | The durability of coins has ensured the survival of these images from poorly documented periods and has thereby provided , as was realised in the Renaissance , a unique memorial to the achievements and history of the past . |
| 11 | The North West Association of Angling Clubs has asked the government for guidelines . |
| 12 | While there is a history of heart conditions in the Souness family — his father had a by-pass operation three years ago — there is no doubt that the added pressures of managing one of England 's top clubs has accentuated the problem . |
| 13 | However , White , in this issue , argues that private actions have played an important role in the development of more effective antitrust in the US , and that the recent decline in the number of cases has allayed the fears , expressed in the 1980s , of excessive litigation . |
| 14 | A decision to expand the already extensive and diverse range of international research programmes has created the need for additional Clinical Research Associates . |
| 15 | A group of aerial hunters has combined the use of ultrasonic frequencies with refined bursts of sound to produce extremely high resolution . |
| 16 | Novell Inc has formed a new business unit at the old Digital Research base in Monterey , California to focus on helping customers use commodity hardware and Novell 's client operating systems to build low-cost turnkey systems for manufacturing and service industry applications such as manufacturing process control , industrial automation and support of point-of-sale terminals — where it claims the Digital Research FlexOS has become the standard . |
| 17 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has assumed the role of publisher and co-owner of the journal RES Anthropology and Aesthetics , a joint venture with Harvard University 's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology . |
| 18 | The expansion of towns and cities has increased the demand for development land for housing , industry , retailing and other activities . |
| 19 | The question that is raised is whether the history of indiscriminate city bombing and the actual use of atomic bombs on cities has vitiated the prohibition on indiscriminate use of weapons , especially the use of weapons not directed at military targets or which inevitably involve disproportionate damage to civilians . |
| 20 | APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review . |
| 21 | Bristol Industrial & Research Associates has introduced the LiquiTrak non-volatile residue monitor ( NRM ) , which measures residue-after-evaporation levels from 1 to 500 ppb in ultrapure water . |
| 22 | A troupe of experts has toured the country giving their views over periods of several days and as a result some courts have convicted and others have acquitted . |
| 23 | In prison chapels the abandonment in the early 1960s of compulsory worship for all prisoners has meant the demise of Matins and its lusty singing . |
| 24 | Pressure for clarification of the intermingling of common law and the statutory backed rules has led the Minister for Corporate Affairs in the Department of Trade and Industry , to consider the relationship between the fiduciary and analogous duties owed by financial intermediaries and duties imposed by statute and self-regulatory rules . |
| 25 | For one thing poor countries produce similar commodities , and encouraging them to increase their exports has flooded the market . |
| 26 | " I feel that cutting out dairy products has eased the feelings of irritability that I used to suffer from . |
| 27 | Steetley Roofing Products has launched the Ashurst tile , an authentic clay roof tile that creates an instant weathered look . |
| 28 | A report in the Los Angeles Times has highlighted the fact that thousands of abandoned nineteenth-century mines and mills in the western United States still leach cadmium , lead , zinc , copper , arsenic and toxic materials into waterways and the soil . |
| 29 | It is suggested that the decline of the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in recent times has left the individual injured by the activities of our industrial society without adequate protection . |
| 30 | The Financial Times has described the Mars bar as ‘ a currency for our time ’ because it contains staple commodities including cocoa , vegetable fats , milk solids and sugar . |