Example sentences of "[det] [noun] has [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just that AIDS has removed famous names — the rock star Freddy Mercury , the jazzman Miles Davis , the pianist Yuri Egorov , dancers like Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn . |
| 2 | The logic circuitry needed to generate and decode signals of this kind has become available only in the past 10 years or so . |
| 3 | Sorry to bother you , but this squadron has assumed unusual significance in the present difficult situation . |
| 4 | The requisite mental element in the offences created in this Part has proved troublesome from the outset , and a brief historical excursus is essential to a full explanation of this aspect of the Act . |
| 5 | As yet this technique has limited spatial and temporal resolution but it does offer a means of looking at human brain activity in a fairly safe way . |
| 6 | This technique has proved sensitive enough to detect pathological embolic materials such as thrombus , atheroma , and platelet aggregates , and the characteristics of the resulting signal provide information on the size of the embolus . |
| 7 | This hypothesis has yielded contradictory results . |
| 8 | Comparisons with previous surveys show that despite a blip in 1988 this industry has shown steady growth over the last five years and is now firmly established as Scotland 's third most important sector in terms of exports . |
| 9 | This study has confirmed early observations that oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation is not followed by any significant degree of chronic encephalopathy and it would certainy be a useful procedure in patients where endoscopic sclerotherapy fails to control bleeding . |
| 10 | Yet this religion has caused escalating hatred , wars and disease , because of passages in the Bible , surely inserted by evil fanatics . |
| 11 | The focus of this research has reflected growing awareness that preoccupation with a handful of leading figures may create a distorted picture ; that Chernyshevsky , Plekhanov and Lenin may not be typical in terms of social background , personality or motivation ; that both their own ideological development and that of the rank and file must be more firmly located in its social context ; that the schemes and blueprints drawn up by leaders — and the criticisms hurled by their rivals — may be a poor guide to how the revolutionary parties actually functioned . |
| 12 | This chapter has examined international selling . |
| 13 | This chapter has provided overwhelming support for Northam 's assertion that police paramilitarism is now a fact of British life : |
| 14 | This programme has yielded excellent results and the technology has attracted considerable interest from the data storage industry . |
| 15 | The growing importance of the Western European markets is reflected in the Council 's Euro-drive and this programme has attracted valuable private sector sponsorship . |
| 16 | Any compiler of a catalogue raisonné will have seen and compared all the works listed , or will scruple to state if some work has proved inaccessible . |
| 17 | This separation has caused considerable difficulties and again fresh legislation was needed in 1977 to provide adequate procedures for housing the homeless ( Alexander 1982a:53 ; 1982b:69 ) . |
| 18 | But although this discovery has made accurate diagnosis much easier , the way in which the expansion occurs remains to be understood . |
| 19 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 20 | This issue has generated cross-party support and those remarks were a bit off , given what we are trying to achieve . |
| 21 | This new , specific ASEAN zone concept is also supported by Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos , and the ‘ convergence of views ’ of the Southeast Asian states on this issue has inspired Soviet hopes that ‘ the existing positive process ’ in favour of the zone ‘ can be further developed ’ . |
| 22 | Come on Amy be a good girl , be a good girl , whoops , this pen has gone wrong . |
| 23 | This proposal has gathered significant support in recent weeks from higher education chiefs and Tory think-tanks such as the Centre for Policy Studies . |
| 24 | But this score has proved invaluable . |
| 25 | This process has placed enormous pressure upon our employees and it is tremendously encouraging to see the way in which staff have committed themselves to the new organisation . |
| 26 | Another group has published preliminary findings on alkaline secretion in a balloon occluded segment of human oesophagus . |
| 27 | Application of this diet has produced encouraging results in essential hypertensives ( Dodson & Humphreys , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Understandably , this group has felt uncomfortable . |
| 29 | There is also evidence that in recent years this group has experienced particular financial problems . |
| 30 | The model to this point has assumed fixed factor prices , an assumption that might apply to a small open economy ( although even then constancy over time is unlikely ) , but that in a closed economy leaves out of account the general equilibrium effects discussed in earlier Lectures . |