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

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1 Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself .
2 It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget .
3 Much of it was used to contain cremations or as accessory vessels in inhumation graves ; it is the funerary pottery that has attracted the most attention .
4 His support for the idea of sending a US special envoy to Northern Ireland has attracted the most attention during his three-day visit , which ends today .
5 The direct harnessing of the sun 's energy — solar power — is , along with nuclear fusion , the renewable energy sector which has attracted the most interest .
6 Even though drug testing has attracted the most controversy , it is merely part of a broad movement in America toward a Darwinian worker-selection policy , which has been dubbed ‘ employment of the fittest . ’
7 For the past year , every flyer concerning hardcore/techno nights has featured the same line-up , and it 's become very tedious .
8 Following the reorganisation of the Assessment Services Department , the Field Officer team has seen a few staffing changes .
9 ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved .
10 All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before .
11 Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too .
12 The study reported in this paper has adopted the latter approach and has explored one of the constant metabolic effects of ethanol on the pancreas — namely , increased lysosomal fragility , which may render the organ susceptible to autodigestion by facilitating contact between pancreatic digestive enzymes and lysosomal hydrolases .
13 It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession .
14 The Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , has adopted the same position as his predecessors , Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr John Major , insisting that the deportations are an essential deterrent against a fresh influx of Vietnamese next year .
15 The United Kingdom has made no such declaration .
16 Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment .
17 ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’
18 Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point .
19 As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet .
20 After housing , the service in which privatisation has made the most progress is the NHS , inroads have been made on several interrelated fronts .
21 Emigration has transformed the former congestion and landlessness into the opposite problem of depopulation .
22 UK , Macclesfield firm , JSB Computer Systems Ltd 's US operation , out in Scotts Valley , California ( UX No 347 ) , has had a few teething troubles — it is some $200,000 short of its initial target and has undergone a few staff changes — however JSB managing director , Steve Jones says the unit turned in $150,000 last month and is now holding its own .
23 We find today that , on the whole , universal provision has had no such effect .
24 ) Excluding Gibson and Fender , which guitar company do you feel has had the most impact on the guitar industry in the last decade , and why ?
25 In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing .
26 He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) .
27 My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line .
28 I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice .
29 The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand .
30 According to Shaun , ‘ Yes Please ’ has got the same production on it as ‘ hardcore , rock smokin' ragga music — it 's more leather than loops , harder than the artist ’ , which , to be fair , at the moment does n't account for much .
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