Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 2 | The role of Dr Runcie , who has wavered in the past , was crucial . |
| 3 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 4 | The government has said in the past that if it was less than gimlet-eyed where KIO was concerned , it was because Spain needed foreign investment . |
| 5 | He will , of course , know that the Leader of the Opposition has said in the past that ’ Sweden is certainly a model for us ’ . |
| 6 | He has said in the past that industry chiefs should restrain pay increases . |
| 7 | They have no right , that is , that the collective power of the state be used for them or not be used against them just in virtue of what a legislature or another court has decided in the past . |
| 8 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 9 | We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation . |
| 10 | That is to say , credit should figure far more prominently in education than it has done in the past . |
| 11 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 12 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
| 13 | While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term . |
| 14 | I take this opportunity to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for all the work that he has done in the past two and a half years to improve the future and administration of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | The Defence Minister , Moshe Arens , said : " Israel will continue to do what it has done in the past . |
| 16 | With uncertain optimism , the report concludes that ‘ if this were to be achieved , we consider that prosperity , once created , could spread in the same way as blight has done in the past ’ . |
| 17 | He said that IBM will be looking to develop a number of corporate alliances similar to arrangements it has made in the past , which include joint manufacturing arrangements , equity investments and cross-licensing . |
| 18 | ‘ The Government has shown in the past that it is willing to grasp nettles that others have shied away from , and I have no doubt we shall grasp this one if we have to . ’ |
| 19 | There is likely , for example , to be a progression away from blue-collar jobs to white-collar or service occupations , but these could well take on more of the character which factory work has had in the past , if the tendency is not resisted . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister emphasised that even she shared the goal of monetary union , eschewing on this occasion the expression ‘ economic and monetary reform ’ which she has preferred in the past . |
| 21 | If ovulation has occurred within the past 10 h ( approximately ) the masses of cumulus cells surrounding the eggs will be clearly visible through the thin distended walls of the ampulla . |
| 22 | Once you have agreed , even if the outcome is a compromise that falls short of your original expectations , the sensible thing is to try to stop worrying about what has occurred in the past and to concentrate on the years ahead . |
| 23 | Secondly , frequent testing and the enormous pressure of parents and pupils to succeed will almost certainly have the effect of focusing attention on assessment targets , at the expense of other activities to an even greater degree than has occurred in the past . |
| 24 | It means helping counsellees to make connections between what has occurred in the past , and how this affects what they are achieving or failing to achieve in the present . |
| 25 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 26 | It is a process in literature that has occurred in the past in other fields . |
| 27 | It might be said that if the police are aware that the procession is likely to take place because it has occurred in the past , the ‘ triggering ’ justification for requiring advance notice is satisfied , and the chief of police could require compliance by indicating to those who have organised such marches on previous occasions that he is prepared to use his powers under section 12 to ensure co-operation if necessary . |
| 28 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 29 | However , national approval has tended in the past to be given without much discussion , in large part because the number of aspirants for candidatures has not been great : the party has often had to adopt whoever was willing to stand . |
| 30 | Accordingly , on the departure of a partner , the continuing firm will try , subject always to the wishes of individual clients , to retain clients for whom the outgoing partner has acted in the past and is currently acting at the date of his leaving the firm . |