Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published .
2 Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it .
3 The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it .
4 Curran has argued that advertising pressures have ‘ helped to ensure that it ( the Left press ) has developed in a depoliticised , deradicalised and disabled form ’ : advertising patronage curtails the radical tendencies of the left press .
5 This would appear to be a higher standard than that required in the United Kingdom where copyright law has developed in a pragmatic rather than principled manner .
6 The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks .
7 Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other .
8 Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize .
9 This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion .
10 In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years .
11 There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms .
12 Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area .
13 Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course .
14 The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction .
15 Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month .
16 There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period .
17 The wound I made in you has healed in an ugly way .
18 It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons .
19 Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments .
20 Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ?
21 He can argue that he has responded in a statesmanlike manner to the democratic will , and done what was asked of him .
22 Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population .
23 " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said .
24 The case studies presented in Chapters 5 and 6 illustrate some of the forms which study skills have taken and the place which their development has occupied in the evolving project .
25 He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them .
26 This is something he has carried in a big way into his later professional life .
27 There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century .
28 As other galleries close , it is nice to be able to report that Milch has reopened in a new location in Bloomsbury .
29 Anyone who has paddled in the shallow waters of the Arahura river will understand how such a concept arose .
30 People in the country should provide a warmer welcome and be more socially aware towards visitors , the Countryside Commission has recommended in a new report .
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