Example sentences of "has [verb] [that] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 2 | A court has heard that a father battered his baby daughter to death because she would n't stop crying . |
| 3 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 4 | The DES has explained that a range of cross-curricular issues is intended to be included within this concept of the whole curriculum — including ‘ coverage across the curriculum of gender and multicultural issues ’ . |
| 5 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 6 | The London Gazette has reported that a bankruptcy order was made against Mike Franklin on January 30 this year . |
| 7 | His Highness has reported that a passenger on the dahabeeyah with him — ’ |
| 8 | The Howie Committee has recommended that a number of occupational areas should be developed under its proposals for the new SCOTCERT award ( see page 4 ) . |
| 9 | One final note from a pedant : a lethal misprint on page 50 has ensured that a generation of students will be informing their tutors that the Socinians were nationalists , rather than rationalists . |
| 10 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 11 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 12 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 13 | Patricia Coughlan has argued that A View of the Present State of Ireland is the founding text of modern English discourse about Ireland . |
| 14 | In the UK , HM Customs & Excise has said that a validation service will be available only for ‘ suspect numbers and not for routine checks ’ . |
| 15 | There is some evidence that an officer of the county court has said that a committal order on Form N111 ( not Form N79 ) was signed and given to the police officers escorting Mr. Butler to prison . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , a social services manager in Essex has said that a Government grant to fund the new Community Care Act from April 1 is not enough . |
| 17 | I understand there are problems er but as a general principle it does seem to me that it 's something that needs to be looked at and the minister has said that a lot of these matters will be dealt with by a statement of practice and er he was asked by the honourable gentleman , the member for South Hams I think , er er er what the status of er these people were . |
| 18 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |
| 19 | At another inquest , a jury has decided that a man who was scalded to death in a bath at an old people 's home was the victim of an accident . |
| 20 | A jury has decided that a man accused of going on a shooting rampage at a seaside town in which 1 person died and 17 were injured , is mentally unfit to stand trial . |
| 21 | Pants alarm Recent research has shown that a pants alarm can help children attain daytime bladder control after the age of 5 years ( Halliday et al . |
| 22 | Experience has shown that a grasp of a foreign language , even at a very basic level , is of great benefit both an a practical level and as a boost to confidence to those participating in visits abroad . |
| 23 | The Hansard society has shown that a register , an average register , is likely to be sixteen percent out by the end of the its life . |
| 24 | Previous research has shown that a child 's skill in recognising facial expressions of emotion is strongly and positively associated with his or her social popularity : socially isolated children tend to be less able than their more popular counterparts to recognise facial expressions of emotion . |
| 25 | Recent work has shown that a range of mental activities , typical of those that might be found in an office , are at appreciable risk from such distraction . |
| 26 | The research reported by John Ermisch in chapter 4 has shown that a woman 's earning power is positively associated with her chances of both divorce and remarriage . |
| 27 | The answer might be ‘ Yes ’ — but only if the market research has shown that a lot of people in the area would buy fish and chips . |
| 28 | Feedback has shown that a lot was learnt and all are keen to see the programme continue — possibly in a slightly modified format . |
| 29 | Recent research by McGill University 's Henry Mintzberg and the London Business School 's Angela Dumas has shown that a lot of people in any large company are active in design , even if they do not know it . |
| 30 | The above discussion has shown that an intercommodity spread requires the choice of a spread ratio , and that the choice of this ratio depends on the purpose of the spread . |