Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pipe has leaked owing to other causes such as wear and tear , faulty joints , etc , it would be appropriate to deal with the claim as a burst pipe claim . |
| 2 | Since , however , cases concerning property which has devolved according to those provisions will for many years continue to come before the courts , they are summarized in a note at the end of the book . |
| 3 | Hydro-Quebec , the state-owned electricity company which is undertaking the James Bay project , has undertaken to comply with all environmental rulings made by the provincial or federal governments , and has invited the IWT to take part in environmental assessment . |
| 4 | it has come to seem like that only by accident . |
| 5 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 6 | There must be some hidden sexual factor involved , as though the soft-furred ( and therefore sexy ) cat has come to stand for sexual violence and rape , via its savagely sharp claws and canine teeth . |
| 7 | With or without Horkheimer , with or without the Frankfurt School , the name of Adorno has come to stand in cultural criticism for an immediately knowable , instantly impeachable thought-crime : ‘ cultural pessimism ’ . |
| 8 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
| 9 | Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) . |
| 10 | She has enjoyed working with older people for nearly 20 years as a social worker , a researcher and most recently as Director of Age Concern Scotland . |
| 11 | Everyone involved in the filming has enjoyed working in such idyllic surroundings . |
| 12 | Vince Cannon , a long-serving England squad member , has decided to retire after 438 games for Northampton . |
| 13 | The Lake District National Park Authority has decided to charge for organised recreational events , particularly orienteering . |
| 14 | Costa Mesa , California-based FileNet Corp , which up to now has built its Unix-based image processing servers around the Motorola 68000 family , has decided to switch to two models of IBM Corp 's RS/6000 for high-end models under an OEM agreement that also covers AIX/6000 . |
| 15 | The Bank has decided to capitalise on short term difficulties by attempting to diminish staff terms and conditions . |
| 16 | He writes : ‘ The faithful transcription of the sound patterns of speech by a fully developed alphabet has freed writing from some of the ambiguities of oral language . |
| 17 | For this reason , the Board has sought to liaise with such local initiatives and to ensure that wherever possible , the expertise and experience of the Board will be made available to them . |
| 18 | In this case , the Secretary of State has today issued a public statement disputing various parts of the report in The Independent and he has sought to quote from other aspects of the internal review which he has said is so far confidential . |
| 19 | The money Sara has received from newspapers as a result of libel actions has helped to pay for that care . |
| 20 | My local authority has had to cope with that problem for many years , as I did when I was housing chairman of my local authority . |
| 21 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 22 | Apart from having to fight to save her home , she has had to contend with vitriolic press coverage . |
| 23 | Waites has had to contend with all these signs in one year with no chance to adapt slowly to their effects . |
| 24 | Russian airline Aeroflot , which started its Stansted to St Petersburg twice-weekly flights on March 28 , has had to lay on extra flights for tomorrow . |
| 25 | It is nonetheless a matter of deep regret that the Board has had to depart from this project and that the first of these care centres on Whalsay , which would have been opened in November nineteen ninety one had the agreement been left unaltered , was still not open at the beginning of this month . |
| 26 | This year Gloucestershire 's fire service has had to deal with 16 per cent more arsons at farms than last year … and farm fires by their very nature are n't the easiest to deal with . |
| 27 | The community has had to rely on occasional ferry trips in fine weather and flights on tiny Islander planes , operated by Loganair , for four years . |
| 28 | But because there is no legal requirement to deposit records ( as with books ) the institute has had to rely on voluntary donations over the years . |
| 29 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 30 | She says 5 years ago there was virtualy no crime , now that 's all changed and the community has had to respond to that change . |