Example sentences of "has [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 2 | Consequently , Wirral , along with a handful of other British urban communities , has during the 1980s been hit by heroin about as heavily as a community can . |
| 3 | Their small church membership of around 10,000 hides the wider appeal Paisleyite politics has for the small businessmen and farmers of protestant Ulster . |
| 4 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 5 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 6 | The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre . |
| 7 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 8 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 9 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 10 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 11 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 12 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has for the European arts festival ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 13 | To ask the Minister for the Arts , what plans he has for the European arts festival ; — |
| 14 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 15 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 16 | Mother Teresa 's invitation to Kensington Palace confirms the admiration and respect the Princess of Wales has for the 82-year-old aid worker . |
| 17 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
| 18 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 19 | There is a new Nelson First Certificate Course to accompany the three other course titles Nelson already has for the same exam . |
| 20 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 21 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 23 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 24 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 25 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 27 | Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem . |
| 28 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 29 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 30 | Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth . |