Example sentences of "that has [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is this that has led students of social policy to draw attention to the significant impact of war upon policy .
2 However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public .
3 Coopers & Lybrand is the only other large firm known to have filed a countersuit against a former client — the firm is still involved in an acrimonious fight with Phar-Mor ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October 1992 , p 11 ) that has seen writs flying in all directions .
4 But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years .
5 Each mother-child relationship is triumphantly unique , and hence any argument that has reached loggerheads may be concluded with , ‘ Well , I know what 's right for my child ! ’
6 To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents .
7 Semantic mobility of this type is the crime that has caused artists to be banished from the society portrayed in Out ( 149–50/151–2 ) , for the stability of a discourse depends on both its univocality and its universality .
8 Comb through with a wide-toothed comb that has rounded ends , or a wide-apart nylon-bristle styling brush .
9 A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag .
10 Los Angeles , which reported a mean of 0.061 ppm in 1988 and 0.057 ppm in 1989 ( table 8.4 ) , is the only urban area that has recorded violations of the annual air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide during the past ten years .
11 When buying a mascara , chose one that has built-in conditioners and proteins .
12 ‘ Apart from one or two changes , this is the team that has paralysed teams like Birmingham , Ipswich and Brentford .
13 Speculation as to the causes of queues has included a greater public awareness of the CAB , growing numbers in receipt of state benefits , unemployment and the availability of credit , the rising divorce rate , and a complex legislative programme that has affected clients detrimentally .
14 After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass .
15 One that has exercised columnists ' pens in the past year resides at Suite 1723 in the Longworth House Office Building .
16 They ask : Why should I give credence to a life that has imposed barriers on me ?
17 Only one goal has been conceded in a run of wins that has lifted Swifts out of immediate relegation danger and into the semi-final of the Eastern Floodlight Cup .
18 Schoolkids are the latest target in a sales ploy that has set tills ringing all over the country .
19 Environmentalists recall that , since 1975 , Ruckelshaus has been a senior vice-president of the Weyerhaeuser Company of Tacoma , Washington — a timber corporation that has had disagreements with the EPA .
20 The combination of a typewriter that has taken years of heavy battering and a piece of guillotined paper of a non-standard size suggest that rather strongly . ’
21 It 's overnight success though that has taken years of dedication to achieve .
22 But this is a development that has allowed improvements upon the lamp 's weight and size .
23 Throughout its three-hundred-year history the Church of Santa Maria has frequently been clothed in the wooden scaffolding that has allowed builders to attempt repairs after recent earthquakes .
24 Far from being used by the producers , it is her insistence that there is no absolute link between salmonella in birds and its presence in eggs that has attracted supporters to her cause .
25 In the outcrops on the left at this point is the Foxholes , a cave that has produced evidences of Neolithic occupation .
26 The bowling has been more different still ; there is a sizeable East Indian population in Trinidad that has produced bowlers with oriental wiles and subtleties unthought-of in Barbados , with Achong and Ramadhin the obvious examples .
27 In the county that has produced men of such credit to their country as Bruce and Burns , the name of John Dalrymple should be spoken of with shame .
28 The images formed a human kaleidoscope of every emotion that has dulled reactions to crisis , shock , suffering , surprise , success and failure .
29 It is a pleasant road that has got trees on either side , I will admit that , but I can not allow anybody to say the loss of two trees , which will be replaced somewhere else , is of greater importance than he decent habitation of a group of human beings
30 A problem that has bothered biologists , at least since Charles Darwin , is why the males of Bufo bufo toads are smaller than the females ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 2214 . )
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