Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 2 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 3 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 4 | The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 6 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 7 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what representations he has received from the Combined Heat and Power Association about the barriers to the wider use of combined heat and power ; and what action he proposes . |
| 10 | Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ? |
| 11 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 12 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on his replies to representations which he has received regarding the future financing of adult education . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character . |
| 15 | A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis . |
| 16 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 17 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 18 | Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The Institute has played a major part in the development of the Construction Industry Council and the policies it has developed on the key issues affecting the industry . |
| 20 | The preface to any argument for giving history an important position in the school curriculum of the 1990s must be an examination of the way in which history has developed into a multi-skilled discipline which has immense relevance to the general and vocational education of students . |
| 21 | Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit . |
| 22 | Thanks to the constant assistance of the Soviet Union and the selfless labour of the Korean people in the restoration of their country on a democratic basis , the Northern part of our Republic has developed into a powerful military , political , economic and cultural base for the democratic development of the whole country , and has considerably raised the level of material and cultural life of the people of our young Republic . |
| 23 | Through the display hangar , NAM has become not just a local attraction and amenity , but has developed into a regional , if not national , venue . |
| 24 | Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith . |
| 25 | ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’ |
| 26 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 27 | After forty-eight hours the egg has developed into a free-swimming and feeding larva . |
| 28 | Like the Founder 's Day Service , this too has developed into an impressive annual event . |
| 29 | But the personalities of the fossil hunters involved have ensured that this protective move by the Ethiopians has developed into an acrimonious tussle . |
| 30 | This is done only when the fluffy coat of the youngster has developed into the waterproofed fur covering of an adult . |