Example sentences of "has [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Conservative government has emphasized the notion of self-help .
2 Recent social theory has emphasized the variety of interpretations to which texts may be subject , with linguistic texts , as usual , providing the dominant models .
3 Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) .
4 Every stage in the growing complexity of social life and in the enfranchisement of populations has emphasized the need to designate functions and grades by means of symbols .
5 Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities .
6 The recent literature on macroeconomics has emphasized the effect of rationing on one market ( e.g. , labour ) on decisions in other markets .
7 The Scotsman has learned that the National Art Collections Fund has stripped the university of a purchase grant worth several thousand pounds because of its disquiet at the proposed sale .
8 The scatty lady has left her passenger door fractionally open all night and the courtesy light has drained the battery , which takes Mark about two seconds to figure .
9 The tragedy has wrecked the family 's life .
10 APROPOSED US ban on the most widely used fungicides has plunged the Ministry of Agriculture into another safety review .
11 However , the person who has relayed the information , the tipper , will fall foul of the provisions against counselling or procuring any other person to deal ( s.1(7) ) ( below ) .
12 As we have seen , C. S. Lewis , more clearly than most writers , has sensed the uniqueness of God-inspired desire and of having God as the object of desire .
13 Santa Clara , California-based Kubota Pacific Inc , the US subsidiary of Japan 's Kubota Computer Corp , has delayed the release of its plug-in graphics subsystem for the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 RISC-based Titan 1.0 it sells , and the DEC Alpha-based Titan 2.0 machine which it is readying .
14 The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations .
15 But he wrote of the then almost unthinkable independence of the Ukraine and Baltic countries , of the possibility of a Soviet commonwealth , and concluded that while ‘ Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire it does not possess the power to prevent it . ’
16 The strike — a protest against alleged falling standards because of increasing time pressures — has delayed the opening in Spain of Jurassic Park and The Last Action Hero .
17 Parish council chairman Gillian Woodcraft said : Although the new school is still planned , lack of funding has delayed the start yet again and the county council wish to include the island site , between Rake Road and Mill Road , in the sale of the land occupied by the existing school to maximise resources . ’
18 British Steel had intended to transfer to roads from the end of March but after public pressure has delayed the move until September .
19 He has received the rebuke and not rebelled and left the group .
20 Norton Venture Scout , Kevin Brown , 18 , has received the Queen 's Scout Award from chief scout Garth Morrison .
21 Norton Venture Scout , Kevin Brown , 18 , has received the Queen 's Scout Award from chief scout Garth Morrison .
22 Once a bill has received the assent of both Houses it then goes to the monarch for the Royal Assent .
23 As the hon. Gentleman has raised it , I reply assuming that he has received the permission of the family for it to be the subject of a public exchange .
24 It has received the support of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency , and also of other experts in Criminology , including several judges , as well as of very many doctors , psychiatrists and social workers .
25 Paragraph ( 3 ) applies to a case where the party making the offer has applied for but has not yet received , a certificate of total benefit given in accordance with Sched 4 to the Social Security Act 1989 ; but this paragraph shall not apply with respect to any time after seven days after that party has received the certificate .
26 If the receiver wants to show she has received the message , she must signal R.
27 The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride .
28 With the current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art , which runs until 14 February , 1993 , the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat has received the attention that even this highly promoted artist never got in his lifetime .
29 Police interrogation has received the attention of social scientists .
30 The Northern Regional Health Authority said it has received the report it had requested from Dr Lawler and had now asked South Tees Health Authority to investigate .
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