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

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1 But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain .
2 Thomas Adlercreutz of the Central Board of National Antiquities , Sweden , has pointed out an error in the guide to statutes of limitation published on page 2 of the last issue of The Art Newspaper .
3 Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson .
4 Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere .
5 French tennis has given out a message .
6 ‘ French tennis has given out a message ’ , says Haguellar .
7 The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year .
8 ‘ Chalon has picked up a stone . ’
9 The wind has picked up a bit , and there is a light snow falling .
10 This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure .
11 Oh no what 's he Gavin Ward has picked up a back pass .
12 ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers .
13 The company has picked up a string of new applications for the manufacturing , financial and education markets to run under the HP MPE/iX operating system .
14 We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus .
15 Ingres Corp is claiming a world first for its Ingres/Enhanced Security relational database , which has picked up an Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria E3/F-B1 security rating .
16 A P Indy is on the reserve list for the Japan Cup , and is likely to be invited to Tokyo because American candidates Solar Splendour has picked up an injury .
17 But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit .
18 Michael Zander , professor of law at the London School of Economics and one of the members of the commission , has carried out a survey of courts .
19 Canadian market research firm DMR Group 's Australian subsidiary , in conjunction with AUUG — the Australian Open Systems User Group — has carried out a survey of open systems strategies down under , polling some 1,000 organisations on their views of open systems technology .
20 Warwick University has carried out a survey of management handling of industrial relations in multi-establishment firms .
21 Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget .
22 The only water course in this area of which this department has carried out a flood study is the Gogar Burn , which discharges to the River Almond at Edinburgh Airport .
23 The Times Higher Education Supplement has carried out a number of peer reviews of UK University Departments over the years .
24 I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout
25 He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’
26 Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism .
27 Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men .
28 At Leyland , Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses .
29 In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality .
30 He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support .
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