Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% .
2 The persons liable to pay the tax are the trustees of the settlement and when the interest that is terminated has subsisted in a fixed sum or specific property so that the tax comes out of the property remaining in settlement , the value transferred will have to be grossed up to include it .
3 To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax .
4 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland .
5 To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what representations he has received from the Combined Heat and Power Association about the barriers to the wider use of combined heat and power ; and what action he proposes .
6 Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ?
7 There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year .
8 To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry .
9 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on his replies to representations which he has received regarding the future financing of adult education .
10 Not surprisingly these measures have been controversial , and a central-local battle has developed with a strong party political character .
11 A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis .
12 Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season .
13 All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war .
14 Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century .
15 The Institute has played a major part in the development of the Construction Industry Council and the policies it has developed on the key issues affecting the industry .
16 The preface to any argument for giving history an important position in the school curriculum of the 1990s must be an examination of the way in which history has developed into a multi-skilled discipline which has immense relevance to the general and vocational education of students .
17 Scientific debate about this has developed into a veritable battle of faith .
18 ‘ About art and commercialism , ’ said Brian , ‘ what you should say is this : that advertising has developed into a valuable art-form and the big international companies are the art patrons of today , but instead of just keeping one artist the industry employs thousands of talented people . ’
19 But the personalities of the fossil hunters involved have ensured that this protective move by the Ethiopians has developed into an acrimonious tussle .
20 This is done only when the fluffy coat of the youngster has developed into the waterproofed fur covering of an adult .
21 Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate .
22 I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year .
23 However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point .
24 The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks .
25 This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion .
26 There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms .
27 Since the Second World War , executive search in the US has developed from a small cottage industry into a $ multimillion , multinational business which has deeply penetrated American corporate life .
28 Names after the Arabic for finger , ‘ banan ’ , this slightly curved tropical fruit has developed from a luxury treat into today 's trendy , healthy convenience food .
29 THE ACQUISITIVE sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the $41m ( £26m ) acquisition of a specialist marketing company .
30 Page 29 US purchase for FKB : Acquisitive sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the $41m ( £26m ) acquisition of a specialist marketing company .
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