Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch .
2 Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships .
3 Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam .
4 Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos .
5 Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan .
6 At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold .
7 Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one !
8 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
9 Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender .
10 The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal .
11 Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent .
12 English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape .
13 By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers .
14 The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds .
15 In all known insects , however , a secondary segmentation has become established whereby the intersegmental sclerites have become closely associated with the notum in front or with one behind .
16 The polish chief negotiator has demanded to know why the Community has such problems adjusting to the Višegrad states when it accounts for 56 per cent of their trade and they for 1 per cent of its trade .
17 The company has questioned the viability of taking coal from other seams at Woodbank Farm , but has refused to rule out the possibility of applying for further operations .
18 Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares .
19 Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream .
20 Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat .
21 Second , although the government has tried to open up the supply side to competition , barriers to entry still exist both in terms of medical personnel and hospital construction .
22 ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is .
23 Wait until the dog has finished licking out the food bowl before removing it .
24 The two roads that go by way of Anglet , a suburb which has accumulated to fill in the gap between the two towns , are no better than functional .
25 In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation .
26 Yet his real concern is that Labour has failed to grasp how the financial and managerial freedom of GM status , bypassing the LEA and channelling extra funds to schools , has improved opportunities for ordinary pupils .
27 A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession .
28 ( 1 ) Whether the expert has failed to carry out the reference
29 PI has failed to read out the selected modules in the package .
30 Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks .
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