Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv prt] [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians .
2 Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration .
3 ‘ That is , of course , ’ he said , sitting up again suddenly , ‘ unless Father has come up with an entirely new factor he wants me to think about . ’
4 The AEF has come up with an idea for such a framework : its design would be based on sound data , put together by world experts ( with advice from those with local experience ) , and monitored by representatives of ( inter alia ) aviation , government and environmental interests .
5 Ernst & Young in the US has come up with an interesting new way to reduce overheads , according to the Public Accounting Report .
6 The city of Budapest has come up with an imaginative solution to the problem of where to put over forty years worth of statues , sculptures and monuments dedicated to the heroes and events of communism .
7 Thomson-CSF SA has come up with an undisclosed sum to buy the company as a present for Alsys SA , the company sold to Thomson by Ada only begetter Jean Ichbiah in September 1991 .
8 Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so .
9 Vivid Publishing in Los Altos , California , makers of the TypeView font utility for Next , has come up with an environmentally aware software packaging scheme it 's calling EarthPack and challenging other software vendors to do the same : it 's making the specifications available to any who inquire and will license the EarthPack name free of charge .
10 Junkers has come up with an ecological alternative to worktops made from tropical hardwoods .
11 ‘ I would say that nobody who has criticised the proposal to sell has come up with an alternative as to how these things are going to be funded , ’ Dr Macmillan said .
12 Unisys Corp has come out with an enhanced version of its one-year-old Open/OLTP on-line transaction processing environment , which uses Unix System Labs Inc 's Tuxedo TP monitor .
13 These examples may seem to be somewhat removed from the experience of a child who has grown up in an inner-city slum .
14 When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it .
15 Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime .
16 It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis .
17 UNIVERSITIES ' rugby , poised to sign a long-term sponsorship contract , has missed out on an immediate injection of £35,000 after an embarrassing hitch resulted in the deal being kicked firmly into touch by student authorities .
18 NEW LIFE : A new branch of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child has got off to an encouraging start at St Winefride 's parish in Neston , where Jim Hallis is the chairman , Margaret Unsworth is the secretary and Debbi Trotman is the treasurer .
19 Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet .
20 He criticises their lack of any real depth of Gaelic culture , and with the exception of Machair , which has got off to an excellent start , all the other programmes seem to be shallow or merely ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ .
21 The supernatural performances of the characters of traditional mythology have become the natural real-life activities of twentieth-century space travellers ; and this has occurred along with an apparent lessening of the gap between man and other animals .
22 Mr Mellor has pulled out of an engagement to open the Classical Music Show at London 's Barbican tomorrow .
23 But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’
24 The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work
25 The Defence Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , has to get along with an annual budget of only $1 billion .
26 This is a great boon to the amateur camera operator who , unlike the professional film-maker , has to get by without an assistant to act as focus-puller .
27 SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland .
28 Every spare moment of John Drake 's time is devoted to the two-acre garden he has carved out in an open and exposed part of the Fens near Cambridge .
29 It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man .
30 Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place .
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