Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] has [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union 's overriding need for money has made Mikhail Gorbachev try to end the chill in his relations with the West |
| 2 | The connection between language and thought is difficult to unravel — thinking about thinking has perplexed philosophers for millennia . |
| 3 | By Echo reporter A TEENAGER with a flair for cookery has tasted success by beating 3,000 young people to win a place in a national contest . |
| 4 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 5 | A WIND of change has swept Ellesmere Port Town that is n't good news . |
| 6 | Recent research on the process of industrialisation has led historians to place more emphasis upon the need for close study of family structures , forms of monetary income and the culture of artisans in explaining the distinctive features of particular regional and national industrial systems . |
| 7 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 8 | Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision . |
| 9 | The rhetoric of responsibility has provided Bush and Baker with their new role . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Defence has denied negligence , although Mr Ferrante has been told that RAF rules governing training at Brize Norton have been changed . |
| 11 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 12 | The process of centralization has involved governments in taking a major stake in investments which were previously foreign-owned . |
| 13 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 14 | Any social worker of experience has encountered cases of marital disruption or dissonance resulting from obsessive preoccupation and affection of one parent with a child and from the tensions and jealousies arising in the other parent . |
| 15 | Since 1985 growth in the M2 measure of money has averaged 19% a year . |
| 16 | The Singhs ' supermarket swindle has at least got them out of my bald patch , as the prospect of lots of money has put football right out of their heads . |
| 17 | The reason why linguistics has had such importance for literary theory , however , is not just that a change of direction has taken place in the development of the discipline . |
| 18 | The reflowering of narrative has taken place without reference to one particular school or movement , to one genre or style . |
| 19 | If it was n't there already , the impact of recession has spurred awareness in the corporate law sector that you ca n't just sit and wait for clients to come to your door with their next little legal exercise . |
| 20 | The actual methodology employed in the new proposals for the allocation of funding has given rise to some concern ( Mays , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Now , however , the mounting body of research has reinstated horse behaviour as interesting per se , as well as providing guidelines for the welfare and handling of domestic horses . |
| 22 | Over the past 20 years the National Institute of Hygiene has collected information on the prevalence at birth of congenital abnormalities in Hungary using three different approaches . |
| 23 | March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months . |
| 24 | The custom of marriage has gained strength , in the sense that more people are entering into it and that it seems to be considered a necessary prelude to having children . |
| 25 | Most of mining has taken place on greenfield sites , and the quality of restoration and aftercare rarely compensates for the loss of visual appeal or wildlife habitat of the land sacrificed for so- called cheap energy . |
| 26 | Fuel wood is extremely expensive , and the destruction of habitat has replaced hunting and poaching as the major threat to the animal . |
| 27 | The study of bureaucracy has formed part of the analysis by economists of public choice in the non-market sector . |
| 28 | The study will show to what extent the concept of flexibility has penetrated management thinking in the electronics industry and will show , through the use of detailed case analysis rather than survey evidence , the extent to which flexibility has been used as an ideology in which industrial decline is attributed to the restrictive practices of trade union organisation . |
| 29 | Elizabeth who was bright and full of laughter has brought silence with her . |
| 30 | * The Department of Transport has rejected recommendations by its Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment ( SCATRA ) calling for more thorough assessments of the environmental impact of new roads . |