Example sentences of "the [noun] has [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , over the decades , while the terminology has remained constant , the meaning of the term community care has undergone a subtle transformation . |
| 2 | The dry-stone walls have been repaired in the traditional way ; fences in the fields to keep the animals back are wooden post-and-rail , there is no barbed-wire to be seen ; and where the Prince has planted new trees in the parkland , they are all protected from the livestock by solid wooden guards , not the plastic sort most farmers use . |
| 3 | In many areas of social policy , local authorities have been given permission to provide a service , then , when the need for the service has been clearly demonstrated and resources for it are more widely available , the provision has become mandatory . |
| 4 | The next thing the retailer has to get right is the price of the goods he sells . |
| 5 | Where the addressee is unknown and feed-back is indirect , as with much institutional writing , the writer has to supply contextual information unnecessary in speech or in letters . |
| 6 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 7 | The break-up has given new regimes in Ukraine , Belorussia and Kazakhstan a say in what will become of the nuclear weapons on their soil . |
| 8 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 9 | The reunification has had tremendous consequences for the general economic situation in Germany , but as we now know , private companies have failed to invest in East Germany to the extent they were expected to . |
| 10 | He wrote : ‘ This outcome is very disappointing , as the board has made considerable efforts on your behalf to get the proposals accepted . |
| 11 | The board has encouraged local clubs to nominate particularly talented individuals for the fund . |
| 12 | The president of Edison , New Jersey-based Verbex Voice Systems Inc has skedaddled so the board has picked chief operating officer Larry Dooling , former USL chief , to replace him . |
| 13 | Depending upon the existing context surrounding the relationship between the debtor and the surety , the question to be asked is whether the conduct of the creditor has fallen short in any respect which would amount to unconscionable disregard for the predictable vulnerability of the surety to the misfeasance or influence of the debtor . |
| 14 | 233 seems to be that if a wife signs a security document at her debtor husband 's request , the creditor will be unable to enforce the security unless either the debtor or the creditor has taken positive steps to try and ensure that the wife understands the import of the security documents or unless she has obtained independent advice . |
| 15 | It also isolated how he has approached the tricky transfer to the screen : ‘ Theatre is the art of suggestion and not of statement … the cinema has to produce complete images . ’ |
| 16 | In the study of human trisomy 21 oocytes ( 49 ) and mouse XO oocytes ( 50 ) , the technique has proved invaluable in revealing the synaptic configurations present in these abnormal situations . |
| 17 | And , injecting sludge , the technique has proved feasible on slopes of up to 12deg . |
| 18 | The technique has proved reliable ( Geffen and Caudrey , 1981 ) and has been validated against the assessment of language laterality by means of unilateral ECT ( Geffen , Traub and Stierman , 1978 ) and , in four cases , against the Wada sodium amytal test ( Wale and Geffen , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | ( a ) General considerations Once the drafter has taken full instructions , the first draft of the terms can be prepared . |
| 20 | Bake for 12–15 minutes until the cheese filling is puffed up and the pastry has turned golden . |
| 21 | But the first reason was religious : ‘ part of the leiges has taken new opinions of the scripture , and has done against the law and ordinance of holy kirk ’ . |
| 22 | The case has received decent , but not front-page , coverage . |
| 23 | The case has attracted nationwide attention and split the community in the small American town of Eden Prairie , Minnesota . |
| 24 | They are great colonisers of damaged reefs , whether the damaged reefs , whether the damage has occurred due to tourism , with attendant pollution , from shipping traffic or sedimentation . |
| 25 | The text has achieved great influence , disseminated widely among senior officers , and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College . |
| 26 | The advent of the computer has made possible the development of complex simulations of situations in human and regional geography . |
| 27 | However , there is no doubt that the APU has pioneered new testing methods . |
| 28 | It is my understanding that The Economist has had deep roots in free-market philosophy from its very start . |
| 29 | The common law doctrine of frustration applies only where the main purpose of the contract has become impossible to achieve , Herne Bay Steam Boat Co. v. Hutton ( 1903 C.A. ) . |
| 30 | Operation of the contract has involved close partnership between Guinness and various sub divisions of Beck & Pollitzer 's organisation specialising in transport , network logistics and warehousing . |