Example sentences of "has [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pylons proposal , which the NGC says is necessary to cope with electricity from a new power station at Wilton , has received a further setback .
2 One of my Oscars has developed a lower jaw which is twisted .
3 ( The position in Canada , however , is somewhat different since the union movement there — probably because of the different system of government — has developed a broader view of political ideology and has close ties with the New Democratic Party . )
4 Hun Sen , the prime minister of Cambodia , has withdrawn an earlier promise to allow the Khmers Rouges ' leaders to stand in any election .
5 We can preserve , conserve , store , freeze , can , bottle , jar or produce doorstep-fresh anything you want ( short of the snowflake ) , but as a result of this , a greater understanding of the very composition of food has become necessary , which in turn has given a deeper insight into handling systems .
6 Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel .
7 BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 .
8 This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications .
9 Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows .
10 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
11 For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences .
12 But that charge was thrown out at Gloucester Crown Court last month and now the prosecution has dropped a further assault charge .
13 Hilton says that the possibility of reformation thus open to man 's free choice has two aspects : first , reformation in faith which is based on the process of recognition and destruction of the image of sin which has occupied the greater part of Scale 1 ; and second , reformation in feeling which involves a development possible for some who can progress further to an inner freedom and joy which such discipline enables .
14 Only AA has reported a larger rise in fee income so far , at 12.7% .
15 Recent work in the eastern suburbs on the later winged-corridor building has added a further complexity , revealing an important sequence of later Iron-Age ditched enclosures alongside a stream , in one of which lay a two-phase timber round house associated with pottery , slag , bone and worked flints .
16 The agreement reached between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT members — and between SCOTVEC and BTEC — has added a further dimension to the flexibility and widened opportunities for candidates which are the hallmark of our new advanced courses .
17 He has added a further submission , namely that what is sought here is an extreme exercise of judicial power , namely the right to force doctors to administer treatment against their will .
18 ‘ With our own staff I believe the Company has fostered a greater sense of confidence in what it is seeking to achieve and the way it is going about achieving it .
19 For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency .
20 The resulting interpretation of the couplet is no spectacular advance on the appropriate sense many readers attain very quickly ; but our investigation has built a surer foundation for the validity of the interpretation .
21 It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car .
22 The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers .
23 As Donald J. Olsen has written : ‘ With the possible exception of Canada , Britain has seen a closer relationship between railways and hotels than any other country . ’
24 Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths .
25 Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers .
26 Nothing gives so bad an impression to the other members of the committee and to the officers present than a member who talks without having read his agenda papers , or who has missed an earlier meeting where the matter was fully discussed or who talks for the sake of talking on every subject .
27 But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve .
28 It is entitled ’ Myth of the tax rebels ’ and it says : ’ Over the last decade the Government has done a better job of blowing local authorities to smithereens than Guy Fawkes .
29 Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter .
30 The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings .
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