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

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1 But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground .
2 For the 30-year-old air liaison officer with the British force in the Croatian port of Split has introduced a novel way to get around .
3 Furthermore , this lack of a detailed history of Conservatism has handicapped the study of Thatcherism itself , for the absence of a clear historical perspective has ensured that , in spite of the proliferation of literature , the ideological origins of the Thatcherite Revolution remain obscure .
4 But now the 95 workers are out of a job … the Ministry of Defence has given the contract to supply uniforms to workers in Morocco instead .
5 The Ministry of Defence has made no comment on the report .
6 The Ministry of Defence has accepted the sacking was unlawful .
7 The Ministry of Defence has put a rather unusual property on the market .
8 The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry .
9 The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire .
10 Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw .
11 A report published by a review body for the Ministry of Agriculture has described the current badger slaughter policy of the Ministry as " unconvincing " .
12 The impact of electronics has revolutionised the printing business which continues to develop new technology in every branch of the trade — photo-typesetting and printing .
13 This petrification of the sound of adolescence has meant a loss of the essential dynamism , fluidity and reach of adolescence , its true pretentiousness .
14 But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko .
15 According to this report , privity of contract has remained the main obstacle to the modernization of English bill of lading law .
16 The far Left is riven by fierce factional divisions both between Marxists and non-Marxists , and between different schools of Marxist thought , and the chiliastic vision of anarchism has remained a distinctly minority current .
17 Suddenly , the air of civility has turned a little sour , and the accusations of impropriety from the Mexican should only encourage Clinton and his supporters .
18 The idea of consumerism has experienced an important dialectical inversion in recent years .
19 Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : Although the new school is still planned , lack of funding has delayed the start yet again and the county council wish to include the island site , between Rake Road and Mill Road , in the sale of the land occupied by the existing school to maximise resources . ’
20 An air of fear has replaced the sense of purpose which marked the Sankara years .
21 The idea of the new international division of labour has excited a great deal of research interest ( for example , the volumes edited by Nash and Fernandez Kelly , 1983 ; Sanderson , 1985 and Caporaso , 1987 ) .
22 Witold Krassowski : Images of Poland , a long history of oppression has made the Polish people tough , with a strong sense of national identity .
23 The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes .
24 ‘ The human standard of living has become the planet 's standard of dying .
25 However , this form of investment has proved a dangerous risk for clients .
26 The USSR 's legacy of vulnerability has left an indelible mark ; even in the new found era of military boldness and ‘ operational confidence ’ , adversaries are always on the verge of undoing previous gains , military planners face ‘ harrowing choices and uncertainties ’ .
27 General takes on task of taming volatile valley As Kashmir gets a new governor , Rahul Bedi looks at the way three years of violence has affected the lives of people in the troubled state
28 Many off-road drivers see it as a challenge and while a voluntary code of practice has reduced the number of cars and bikes on Sundays and bank holidays , some are still upsetting the walkers and riders .
29 One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets .
30 This means that because it was an explanatory one , his theory of religion has retained an interest long after later more empiricist studies have lost scientific interest .
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