Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis in child care practice on families before institutions has contributed to a definition of the aims and the means of helping young people which accentuates personal , family relationships . |
| 2 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 3 | Although worker-priests have been active in promoting the possibilities for convergence between Christianity and Sandinismo , the head of the Nicaraguan Church Cardinal Obando y Bravo has emerged as a focus for the non-armed Nicaraguan opposition . |
| 4 | He would not say what companies were being considered as potential partners , but National Semiconductor Corp has hankered after a hit microprocessor for years , and the Japanese , led by existing Advanced Micro partner Fujitsu Ltd , would no doubt be interested . |
| 5 | The invention of writing and particularly the attempt to create autonomous text has resulted in a realignment of the two primary functions of language . |
| 6 | Boesky 's cooperation with the regulatory authorities has resulted in a number of other SEC investigations . |
| 7 | One would think ( as I think ) that this story has served as a vehicle through which people expressed their love of God , but not that it is true . |
| 8 | This round of the fight has ended in a draw . |
| 9 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 10 | He reveals him to us through the operas , which ‘ lay at the core of Mozart 's life as a thinking artist ’ and on which Mr Till has worked as a producer . |
| 11 | A Middlesbrough driver has died in a road accident in Kirkby Stephen , Cumbria . |
| 12 | Most groups of pirate enthusiasts number around 10 , but New Scientist has heard of a group of 60 people swopping bootleg software . |
| 13 | Technological change has led to a de-skilling of industrial work , so that a major requirement of many employers is now for cheap , non-unionized , semi-skilled labour ( Massey 1979 ; Wood 1982 ) . |
| 14 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 15 | This concept of improved co-ordination has emerged in a number of urban projects . |
| 16 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
| 17 | In England , the reluctance of the police to take action in domestic violence cases has contributed to a situation in which women do not generally invoke the criminal process in such circumstances . |
| 18 | The increasing impact of this greater professionalism particularly on salaries for instance has led to a consultancy being provided by N C V O's Personnel Unit , on appropriate levels of pay in one organisation . |
| 19 | Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations . |
| 20 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 21 | In suffix notation we would write The derivation is as follows : are the velocities of two different particles , for the particle which was at x at time t has moved to a position |
| 22 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |
| 23 | Forest boss Brian Clough has agreed on a swap deal involving Northern Ireland winger Kingsley Black going to Hillsborough plus £200,000 cash coming Forest 's way . |
| 24 | A Scottish naval rating has died during a training exercise on an army firing range in County Down . |
| 25 | A TOP architectural award has gone to a town CAR PARK . |
| 26 | AN energetic drive to broaden the customer base has led to a Courtaulds Aerospace company in France anticipating turnover 50 per cent up on last year . |
| 27 | As Sheffield has grown into a city of about 500 000 people– many jobs have been created to provide services , especially shops and transport , and to make processed foods , beer , sweets , clothing , furniture and printing . |
| 28 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 29 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 30 | The difficulty encountered by plaintiffs in obtaining injunctions to stop libels has led to a growth in applications for injunctions on the grounds of breach of confidence , ie that the information has been obtained from someone who is under a duty not to reveal it . |