Example sentences of "has [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 2 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 3 | To cope with the aftershock , Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms . |
| 4 | By waiting so long , it has made itself vulnerable to a systemic collapse . |
| 5 | Apple has made itself unpopular by suing Digital Research , MicroSoft and Hewlett-Packard to protect the ‘ look and feel ’ of the Apple Macintosh graphical user interface . |
| 6 | The second hopeful sign is that the state and its criminal justice system ( broadly conceived to include criminal , administrative , and civil law ) has shown itself receptive to arguments that corporate crime victims deserve protection and that corporate criminals deserve sanctioning , particularly when those arguments have been well orchestrated , empirically supported , and contain implicit electoral threats . |
| 7 | Uneasy Landscapes , at the age of 47 , after a successful business career , Eddie Dayan turned to his passion of 25 years and has devoted himself full-time to photography . |
| 8 | This easily translates into the notion that law is , or ought to be , on their side ; yet like other popular movements , the peace movement has found itself involved with ‘ the law ’ in a complex variety of ways , both passively and actively . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , molecular evidence , which has proved itself useful in other areas of disagreement , has yet to prove itself here . |
| 10 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 11 | Roy Wegerle , the £1 million Rangers newcomer who has declared himself available to the United States , was last night offered the chance of an alternative route to the World Cup next summer by Bobby Robson . |
| 12 | The 35-year-old St Helens pack star has declared himself available for next month 's World Cup Final against the Aussies . |
| 13 | The Court also considered the reverse situation , where the third party claims that it has become entitled to the benefits of a Convention , either because it has declared itself willing to be bound , or because it has shown its willingness by its conduct . |
| 14 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 15 | Instead , once again , he has left himself open to more criticism . |
| 16 | Nor is this the only area in which the former chairman has left himself open to potential conflicts of interest . |