Example sentences of "has [vb pp] a direct [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue in this case is whether an original lessee , or an intermediate assignee of a lease , who has given a direct covenant to pay the rent and observe the covenants , is released from liability following an agreement between the lessor and the occupying assignee of the lease under which the lessor takes a surrender of the lease and some of the assignee 's goods in return for releasing the assignee from all claims under the lease ? |
| 2 | Strathclyde has made a direct appeal to the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to change the legislation so that closure programmes are not caught up in lengthy delays . |
| 3 | One major prospective study has shown a direct relation in men between serum cholesterl and the incidence of rectal carcinoma alone . |
| 4 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
| 5 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |
| 6 | Over the years their percentage of television time has had a direct correlation to the increase in prize-money . |
| 7 | C & p has had a direct hand in the development of the European Quality Award . |
| 8 | Any social debate about AIDS acquires a political dimension with associated prejudice about race , religion , social class and nationality ; in fact , it has become a direct threat to free travel between countries and to open international exchange and communication . |
| 9 | The pilot has marked a direct line of track from his airfield of departure to his destination and noted the quarter , half and three quarter way marks to help assess his progress . |
| 10 | MICHAEL HESELTINE , the public 's favourite to succeed Margaret Thatcher , has issued a direct challenge to the pace and style of government policy . |
| 11 | The EEC has taken a direct interest in the problem of acid deposition , and in November 1988 a directive was agreed upon by EEC environment ministers concerning the sulphur emissions of large combustion plants . |
| 12 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 13 | Dell has begun a direct marketing operation in Japan similar to its operation in the US , and this , to Grove , is a more fundamental threat to the traditional Japanese multi-tier distribution system . |