Example sentences of "has [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Eddie Alcock , who has represented the Castle Hill , Ipswich , division at County Hall for eight years , said : ‘ It is to do with a difficult situation which has developed in a company which I am associated with . ’
2 Unemployment has soared in a region used to jobs for all .
3 BGS has studied the hydrogeology of Jersey in response to the island government 's increasing difficulties in meeting demands for water , and has collaborated in a project to develop a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge in the Sahel .
4 Five years of debate has culminated in a bill which sets the scene for the most dramatic transformation of British broadcasting since the launch of ITV in 1955 .
5 Five years of debate has culminated in a bill which sets the scene for the most dramatic transformation of British broadcasting since the launch of ITV in 1955 .
6 Too few people seem to have realised that the communist old guard has succeeded in a coup in Belgrade .
7 The Director has included in a reference to the Advisory Committee a proposal for an order regulating that trade practice ;
8 The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure .
9 only problem was that these lapses in concentration seemed to conicide with the ball heading towards him , hence the comment ‘ and Sprake has let in a sitter ’ .
10 To achieve this position a chant leader has to engage in a form of ‘ hazarding ’ of a particularly subtle kind .
11 But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes .
12 At 2000 watts , this is a very powerful tool , and Bosch has built in a temperature control as well as a blower control ( rather like the ‘ speed ’ switch on a hair dryer ) .
13 The White House spokeswoman , Dee Dee Myers , said Mr Clinton would ‘ make one of the most important economic statements this country has seen in a decade ’ in his speech to Congress .
14 Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner .
15 Yet Batty ultimately spares Deckard , whom he has defeated in a rooftop battle , because his own four-year term of life is used up .
16 It is like these photographs and , as Lewis Baltz has written in a review of the book : " London , Paris , and Rome have histories , but Berlin has a past .
17 Well , we 're anxious that there is n't an escalation of this crisis , that it may be dealed with as Brigadier Harbottle has written in a letter to the Guardian today , dealt with , er more through first of all an attempt by the Arab nations to come to some agreement amongst themselves and agreement which will satisfy them and be a more long-lasting one .
18 An example of this more sophisticated biological approach is the work of Hans Eysenck , who has argued in a series of studies , that there is a link between genetically based personality characteristics and criminal behaviour .
19 As a group of German doctors has said in a letter to The Lancet , the AIDS epidemic does not even indicate a new infectious agent but ‘ merely the introduction of an old pathogen into a group whose promiscuous lifestyles would ensure rapid spread ’ .
20 The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project .
21 Accountancy software supplier Systems Union Ltd , has turned in a record result for its 1992 fiscal year , with pre-tax profits up 280% to £1.5m , on turnover that increased 47.6% to £12.1m : the privately-owned London-based company has operations in Europe , the US and the Asia-Pacific region , and opened a new office in Hong Kong in November , with the aim of addressing the expanding South East Asian market and supporting the existing network of local distributors and agents ; it now boasts more than 100 agents , value-added resellers and distributors worldwide ; chairman John Pemberton aims to expand this network further during 1993 ; the group also launched version 4.0 of its SunSystems product line at the end of last year ; SunSystems comprises two main elements — SunAccount , a fully-integrated ledger accounting package , and SunBusiness , or sales purchase order entry , invoicing and inventory and control software .
22 Crestworth Trading , the company which originally made the lamp , started work on them again in 1990 and turnover has tripled in a year and a half .
23 Something no-one has done in a balloon before .
24 The Director of the State Historical Library , Mikhail Afanas'yev , has confessed in an interview with the newspaper Kuranty that , ‘ Books from captured German holdings are perishing to a limited extent ’ .
25 Inevitably , that Eighties concept of revivalism has to surface in a piece like this , yet how can we pin down a disco revival ?
26 I , of course , accept that if the privilege against self-incrimination is to be abolished or abridged , then this must be done by Parliament , as has occurred in a number of statutes .
27 Relatively little attention has been paid by any of the sources , however , to the early development of the hierarchy , that is , in the period to the death of Suleyman ( 974/1566 ) , a fact which , coupled with the striking , not to say hypnotizing , effect of the later hierarchy , has tended in a variety of ways to mislead writers on subjects connected with the ulema .
28 That 's not something they 're complaining about but their level of awareness has shifted in a way which does influence their dealing
29 COWBOY actor Dana Andrews has died in a California hospital of pneumonia aged 83 .
30 Albert Geldard , who gained an FA Cup-winners ' medal with Everton in 1933 and won four England caps , has died in a Bury hospital , aged 75 .
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