Example sentences of "has [verb] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly thereafter , KPMG will notify the party its client has selected to negotiate an executed purchase agreement . |
| 2 | JETTAIR , the Liverpool company aiming to reestablish air links between the city and London , has applied to operate an extra route to Gatwick . |
| 3 | Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown has threatened to sue an American television network over reports that , while Governor of California , he threw parties where marijuana and cocaine where used . |
| 4 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 5 | The Council has decided to close an elderly person 's home . |
| 6 | A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’ |
| 7 | A spokesman said : ‘ She had a very busy weekend and has decided to have an easy day today . ’ |
| 8 | WACC has helped to convene an unprecedented meeting of 11 international Christian communication organisations in Geneva , Switzerland , 11–12 December . |
| 9 | ‘ My children are shunned at school and every member of my family has had to become an accomplished liar , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 11 | The EIS-ULA executive has agreed to authorise an all-out strike in the school if necessary . |
| 12 | Charlton has been watching the teenage winger recently but England boss Graham Taylor has handed Froggatt an Under-21 debut in Spain tonight . |
| 13 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |
| 14 | A similar , selective approach has characterized the way the Government has attempted to create an incentive-based culture . |
| 15 | The Rural Wales Awards , sponsored by National Westminster Bank , can be given by the county branches of CPRW for practically anything that promotes environmental good practice , or displays design that is in harmony with the landscape , or that has served to restore an important landscape feature ( natural or man-made ) , or that is innovative or promotes better environmental awareness and understanding . |
| 16 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 17 | Geoffrey Reynolds , Southern Area Superintendent , has worked to develop an associational strategy for planting new churches , helping colleagues to gain an overall view of areas of growth and of need in the south . |
| 18 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the number of suicide attempters referred to hospitals has continued to present an organizational challenge . |
| 20 | Indeed , he has continued to play an active role in Bristol Physics since his formal retirement . |
| 21 | A student has admitted killing an Open University lecturer while he was high on drugs . |
| 22 | Finally tonight , a local authority has started to promote an unlikely tourist destination . |
| 23 | The launch took place at the site of the Trust 's first major project , a disused clay pit at Bean , near Dartford , where work has started to create an 80 acre country park . |
| 24 | The leitmotif of Coetzee 's book , as suggested by his title , is that the organizations he has studied faced an ongoing dilemma : whether to function as adjuncts of the Conservative party or to claim that their aims were ‘ national ’ and therefore ‘ above party ’ . |
| 25 | PT Tebor , a local subsidiary of the British confectionery manufacturer Cadbury Schweppes , has failed to meet an Indonesian government deadline for stopping discharges of industrial waste into Jakarta 's Ciliwung river . |
| 26 | If it appears that the prosecution has failed to prove an essential element of the offence , or if its evidence has been discredited in cross-examination , there is no case to answer and the defence does not respond . |
| 27 | A British team guided by Mark Miller has managed to put an amazing 15 members on the summit of 7200m Masherbrum II — and claimed the second ascent and the first British ascent ! |
| 28 | In fact , Roddick has managed to achieve an astonishing uniformity with her worldwide network of shops . |