Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ‘ Kosovo problem ’ has had strong repercussions in Serbia and has stimulated a revival of Serbian nationalism , which now threatens the stability of Yugoslavia . |
| 32 | The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites . |
| 33 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 34 | Remote from motorways and dual carriageways and the usual routes of tourists , the valley is hidden in a deep fold of the hills and has remained a sanctuary of rural peace unspoilt and unscathed by modern developments . |
| 35 | The scale of Britain 's overseas government expenditure was a source of intense debate at the time , and has remained a source of criticism of the Attlee government 's policies . |
| 36 | Even after the lamb has been weaned and has joined a flock it remembers the hand that fed it . |
| 37 | Although no official court ruling has yet been made in this case ( and under the Japanese legal system a final ruling is likely to be years in the making ) , MHW has decided to pay each infected haemophiliac the sum of 30,000 yen monthly ( about $280 ) and has earmarked a total of 500 million yen in the current year 's fiscal budget to meet payments . |
| 38 | This Act has also established in law the authority ( and responsibilities ) of the head teacher over disciplinary matters , and has imposed a system for dealing with exclusions from school . |
| 39 | The manufacture of a five-pronged manual implement for manual digging results in a fork even if the manufacturer , unfamiliar with the English language , insists that he intended to make and has made a spade . |
| 40 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 41 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |
| 42 | The research has focused on students ' learning strategies , and has developed a typology of them . |
| 43 | Psychology makes a great deal of this malleability of behaviour and has developed a technology designed to help people overcome behavioural difficulties and overcome habit problems . |
| 44 | CECOMM is the UK 's leading value-added provider in the application of CMCS to education and training , and has developed a set of formal communications-based methodologies , ‘ Social Network Design ’ , which allow organisations to evaluate and access this delivery mechanism both at LAN and WAN ( local and wide area network ) level . |
| 45 | Wolfensberger in the United States has focused attention specifically on the implications for service delivery and has developed an assessment procedure aimed not at individuals , but at the quality of services . |
| 46 | ‘ It is the rarest boat we have worked on and has created a lot of interest , ’ said Mr Freebody . |
| 47 | As might be expected , the move has stirred up a hornet 's nest of academic fear and loathing against USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weenies ready to form a lynch mob . |
| 48 | The ’ bogus ’ tag has been used indiscriminately and has created a climate of hostility to new arrivals . |
| 49 | She was a schoolteacher at the village school and has written a book about Scorton called , I think , ‘ Straws in the Wind ’ . |
| 50 | She says modern methods do more harm than good , and has written a book designed to teach youngsters the traditional way . |
| 51 | Mr Davies has worked hard to affiliate 15 TGWU branches , and has written a pamphlet attacking Mr Field 's views on social policy . |
| 52 | In Lesotho a four man primary curriculum research unit has been set up and has undertaken a sample survey of primary schools under four headings ( i ) The physical environment ; ( ii ) the curriculum ; ( iii ) methods of learning and teaching leading to ( iv ) recommendations . |
| 53 | That has made an enormous difference , and has replaced a lot of penpushing with bricklaying and planning . |
| 54 | The essay has since been listed in several bibliographies , and has exerted an influence which , when I composed it as a kind of riposte to the British Council 's purchase of the copyright of that crack-brained idea from its originator , C. K. Ogden , I could not have foreseen . |
| 55 | This attractive black and white mammal has widespread human appeal and has become a symbol for conservation efforts both within China and internationally as the symbol of The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 56 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 57 | The old party leader with the enigmatic smile is 67 and has become a person of greater symbolic significance than of real political potential . |
| 58 | The factory has expanded to four times its original size and has become a showpiece of British industry . |
| 59 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 60 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |