Example sentences of "[coord] has [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
2 | The FSA 1986 ( Chapter X ) also significantly enhances the investigative powers of the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) and has spawned the quasi-statutory anti-insider dealing rules made by the SIB and other rule-making bodies who fall under the jurisdiction of the SIB in accordance with the provisions of the FSA . |
3 | He has attacked the Spanish justice system as ‘ a crude farce ’ and has insulted the pampered pop-star son of one of the wealthy sherry families , which was accustomed to destroying any politician it pleased in Jerez . |
4 | It became the best selling tennis book ever and has affected the competitive approach and attitudes of a number of sportsmen . |
5 | ‘ Gittens has helped us out and has scored the crucial equaliser against Wolves . |
6 | The government managed to make its legislation ‘ stick ’ , in contrast to Mr Heath 's experience , and has refuted the old ‘ liberal ’ view that the courts did not have a useful role to play in industrial relations . |
7 | Currently , this handles £3M of industrial problems concerned with friction , lubrication and wear every year and has operated the European Space Tribology Laboratory since 1972 . |
8 | The villain who was the occasion of my ruin and disgrace , and has imparted the self-same treatment on many others of my sex , is considered by the world as a man of unspotted honour . |
9 | It has allowed itself to be pushed into juggling words to fit industries ' interests and has ignored the legitimate moral concerns of many . |
10 | It rapidly became a staple , and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period . |
11 | This scheme was first transposed into carpets in the 16th century , and has remained the dominant feature of Persian compositions ever since . |
12 | " Combining mystery with history " : this was a phrase I invented ( or perhaps inadvertently cribbed ) for the blurb of the first novel I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey , The Governess , a story in which Miss Harriet Unwin in her first post as a governess in 1870s London finds herself accused of murder and has to pinpoint the real killer to save herself from the Old Bailey . |
13 | Their fame in this regard has been their undoing and has caused the needless persecution and destruction of countless millions of harmless reptiles . |
14 | ‘ The International Intellectual Property Alliance ( IIPA ) has targeted seven countries for particularly egregious abuses of US copyrights and has asked the new US Trade Representative , Mickey Kauber , to designate them as ‘ Priority Foreign Countries ’ under the Special 301 provisions of the trade act . |
15 | The ministry described the problem as very serious and has asked the National Disaster Council to deal with the problem . |
16 | On the assumption that the local authority has acted in good faith , and has followed the statutory procedures correctly , this will require him to satisfy the court not merely that the court itself would regard the accommodation as unsuitable , but that no reasonable council could regard it otherwise than as unsuitable . |
17 | To the contrary , he has a pretty steady history and has survived the investigative onslaught pretty well … |
18 | Integrated working teams can help identify and understand technical risk and has become the working model for BPX . |
19 | He came to prominence in the early 50s and has become the best-known member of the ‘ kitchen sink school ’ of realist painters . |
20 | Just turned 21 , she has sold more than 30 million records worldwide , has made a major feature film and has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour as a live performer . |
21 | Shelly Whitney , Dawn Millar and Alex Block from Carleton say , ‘ Studying at the Bradford Management Centre has been an invaluable experience and has given the Canadian ‘ Group of Seven ’ a new perspective on International Business . |
22 | The fisheries agency is running advertising and school campaigns promoting the health benefits of whale meat and has declared the ninth of every month to be " eating whale meat day " . |
23 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
24 | This contrasts with Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative government , which has rejected Keynesian economics and has questioned the whole role of the state and the very existence of the mixed economy . |
25 | In effect the exporter assumes the role of a buyer and has to market the counter-purchased goods . |
26 | A law of international organisations has developed to make effective the actions of international organisations , and has displaced the classic rule of treaties and third parties in this context . |
27 | 3DO Inc , the San Mateo , California start-up that revealed its licensable standard for a multimedia system of the future last month and has specified the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd RISC as the core of the Interactive Multiplayer ( CI No 2,082 ) , wants to capitalise on the excitement generated by making an initial public offering of about 2.5m shares at between $10 and $12 a time to raise $30m or so ; 3DO and its chief executive , Trip Hawkins , have already raised some $20m from from partners including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , its MCA Inc , Time Warner Inc , AT&T Co , Electronic Arts Inc and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. 3DO has signed Morgan Stanley & Co , but the prospectus is not out . |
28 | It has repeated its calls for law reform in response to the Department of the Environment ( DoE ) on approved inspectors , and has welcomed the National Core Curriculum in Fire Safety Studies . |
29 | In other words , a hearer will generally assume that the producer of an utterance wants to communicate something , and has chosen the linguistic context of his utterance with a view to furthering this aim . |
30 | The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat . |