Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] has [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot .
2 In effect the Park has become part of the city 's road network .
3 The Ombudsman has instructed societies to make sure customers are kept fully informed about interest rates and , in particular , obsolete accounts .
4 The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet .
5 Heads say the change has reduced truancy .
6 This is done when some identifiable change takes place , perhaps in the law or in social policy , and the researcher studies its effects by comparing the before-and-after situation or the situation in a group where the change has taken place with one where it has not .
7 What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ?
8 The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night .
9 This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem .
10 In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs .
11 Not only does this represent a great deal of voluntary work , but it also shows how the writer has taken elements from Roald Dahl 's The enormous crocodile , remodelling the book to meet his own needs .
12 In the first extract ( I ) , the rich lexis and well-organised structure are indications that the writer has taken time in the construction , and possibly reconstruction after several rewritings , of the final product .
13 To these the writer has added drawings by the late Col Paul H. Downing of Staten Island , New York .
14 Over the last three years the board has contributed £581,275 towards improving such facilities at tourist attractions , in hotels and self-catering apartments .
15 It is , however , still the CEGB 's intention to reprocess early AGR fuel arisings in thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) and the Board has reserved capacity in that plant .
16 The Cinema has limited wheelchair access , and people with disabilities should contact the House Manager in advance .
17 The sentence has caused shock among police officers in Oxford .
18 The technique has enabled spectra to be obtained from the metallic cores of some important biological molecules such as hemoglobin and some enzymes , where the low concentration of the metal and the low solubility of the substance itself make it difficult to study vibrational spectra in any other way .
19 Unlike some countries , where a person may be declared clinically dead when the brain stops functioning , Indian doctors are only allowed to certify death when the heart has stopped beating .
20 One pretty senior middle manager estimated the reorganisation has cost DEC six months and said it ‘ better be over ’ by March or there 's no telling what the outlook will be .
21 The case has led companies across Britain to change the way they use blowlamps .
22 The case has raised questions about courtroom security .
23 The case has pitched brother against brother and mother against son .
24 The processes through which the text has become part of the textuality of history will probably have meant the re-deployment of those original agencies so that they have reappeared in some disguised fashion within currently familiar structural organisation for understanding culture .
25 In the past year Luke has developed arthritis and a thyroid problem — the vet has prescribed thyroscin for him .
26 Suppose , for example , that we wish to write a program in which the computer has to sum N values held in successive store locations , perhaps with store addresses 100,101,102 , and so on .
27 Opposition to the ban has forced Governor Wiyogo to apologize publicly for the heavy-handed tactics of the authorities .
28 The ban has allowed Johanson to embroil himself in controversy , something he relishes , and the controversy has confirmed that there is much more to palaeo-anthropology than old bones .
29 The ban has allowed Johanson to embroil himself in controversy , something he relishes , and the controversy has confirmed that there is much more to palaeo-anthropology than old bones .
30 ‘ Meanwhile , the archbishop has instructed Bishop Peter to take a rest from his official duties and avoid the glare of publicity while these distressing allegations are investigated .
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