Example sentences of "has [vb pp] to the " in BNC.

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1 Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 .
2 Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction .
3 Among the great moments in the reading programme are those when writing has developed to the point where the learner-reader can read his or her own story to the teacher — a triumphant change of roles — and when children are found in quiet comers reading to each other .
4 These questions have lost nothing of their force in the decades since 1914 as subsequent conflicts have contributed their own appalling demonstration of man 's capacity for inhumanity , and as a new sensitivity has developed to the dilemmas facing the human race and to the degree of inequality and injustice in human affairs in general .
5 In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth .
6 He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation .
7 The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety .
8 The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world .
9 Carol Smith has pointed to the importance of this book for the primitive ritual elements in Eliot 's drama .
10 Hillman amongst others has pointed to the way in which the impacts of local traffic inside Buchanan 's environmental areas seem to be ignored , as if the only danger comes from through traffic .
11 Bazaine has pointed to the existence of the red robe in the first known copy of the painting , made in 1607 , nineteen years after Veronese 's death , and the fact that the red was a focal point in the composition .
12 von Beyme ( 1980 ) has pointed to the potential influence of union size and pluralistic divisions upon the degree of union democracy .
13 Lecourt has pointed to the absence of ‘ a concept that would enable him to think together several histories with different statuses ; in short , the concept of a differential history ’ .
14 Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable .
15 Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ .
16 Hubbard ( 1981 ) has pointed to the inbuilt sexist assumptions of much biology , while Lanser and Torton Beck ( 1979 ) have pointed to the exclusion of female writers and critics from syllabuses of English .
17 Deconstructionism has pointed to the inherent flaws in structuralism — that , for example , binary oppositions are not absolute , but are dependent on their social meaning — and has celebrated the idea of ‘ subjectivity ’ .
18 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 .
19 Secondly , he has pointed to the expressive dimension of the reward system , in addition to its instrumental qualities .
20 Terence Johnson has pointed to the limits that can be placed on some professions by their clients or employers .
21 The discussion of export cartels in the previous section has pointed to the possibility that competition policy might be designed and applied to protect domestic markets and to promote domestic producers in export markets .
22 However , there does not seem to be a simple connection between resistant rocks and incised meanders , as Blache has pointed to the fact that the lower Loire passing through Palaeozoic rocks does not meander , while the Seine has meanders in the Chalk of a greater size than those found in the Mississippi .
23 He has pointed to the difference between the treatment of offenders in Scotland and England , and said that the Scots do not imprison defaulters following their acceptance of the Scottish Law Commission 's report , which recommended that civil imprisonment for the non-payment of rates and taxes should be abolished .
24 Much recent management research has pointed to the multi-dimensional objectives of large divisionalised companies where ownership is separated from management .
25 Giddens in particular has pointed to the very varying ways in which Freud used the words id , ego and superego .
26 In a challenging analysis Hans Medick has pointed to the increasing output of gin as indicating greater working-class expenditure on leisure .
27 Following the abolition of systematic and routine transaction-based border controls in Europe on 1st January , the job of monitoring VAT payments and trade , and collecting intra-community trade statistics , has fallen to the companies themselves .
28 As the resistance R c is still included in the circuit the winding current can be monitored and when the control voltage has fallen to the transistor T2 is switched on again .
29 ANOTHER OF WAINWRIGHT 'S walks , Robin Hood 's Bay to St Bees , a 200 mile walk from coast to coast across England , has fallen to the conquering boots of Kevin Treacher .
30 Labour has stampeded to the right , leaving a policy vacuum for the SNP to fill .
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