Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the British National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) has developed as a strongly formed collectivity in a very different way . |
| 2 | The bar here is a major meeting point for 18–30 's and many an early evening drink has developed into a fully blown party night of the spontaneous kind . |
| 3 | Over the last forty years , farming has developed into a highly intensive manufacturing business . |
| 4 | Clearly , an unwholesome condition has developed in the previously productive , though often contentious , relationship between science and government . |
| 5 | It has been suggested , for instance , that wages in Japan are determined by mechanisms based largely on profit maximization , while Matsuzuka ( 1967 ) has pointed to the closely related variable of organization size in determining wage disparities , as well as age and duration of employment service . |
| 6 | Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id , ego and superego . |
| 7 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 8 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 9 | The material that has fallen into the more massive of the two galaxies rekindles the quasar at its core . |
| 10 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 11 | " As the ozone has formed over a largely uninhabited region , it seems there is no immediate danger . |
| 12 | Chapter 3 has referred to the very low overall rate of national population growth in recent years . |
| 13 | Rechem has responded with a rather desperate open-door policy aimed at soothing fears , and more recently by issuing about a dozen writs against the fiercest critics . |
| 14 | This year a robin has nested in the closely interlacing branches ; last summer there was a wren . |
| 15 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 16 | The Beta release of presentations has come with a quite large amount of pre-drawn template material , which will be included with the final release , and which makes actually forming a presentation very simple . |
| 17 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 18 | All this has come in a quite unexpected rush . |
| 19 | A further deposit of maps , plans and charts from Mr R. Quentin Stevenson , mainly consisting of material used by the Stevenson family in their civil engineering projects in Scotland , has added to the already significant number of maps from this source . |
| 20 | In 80 years , GM has grown into the most powerful industrial conglomerate in the United States , and one of the biggest multi-national companies in the world . |
| 21 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | Throughout the 1970s the share of employment , value added and output taken by firms with less than 100 workers has grown in an unexpectedly resilient fashion . |
| 23 | The July , 1983 ‘ Andropov ’ experiment has built upon the more sensible of these measures , also reviving some of the decentralising features of the aborted 1965 reform : most interestingly , a wage norm based on ‘ normative ’ rather than ‘ quantitative ’ ( piece-work ) indicators , thus , ( it is hoped ) promoting innovation and productivity . |
| 24 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 25 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
| 26 | He has seen in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the emergence of a commercial " leisure industry " responding to a bourgeois desire to emulate the existing minority culture of the elite . |
| 27 | Think , by way of comparison , of the change that man has wrought in a much shorter time by genetic selection of dogs . |
| 28 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 29 | but spending has risen by no less than 26 per cent . |
| 30 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |