Example sentences of "has [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the chairmen of the north-west training and enterprise councils concerning the level of funding of training programmes . |
| 3 | Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what representations he has received from the employees and pensioners of the Maxwell Communication Corporation and AGB companies about the level of their pensions ? |
| 4 | The peasant movement in El Salvador has developed through the peasants ’ own ability to organise and form a union in the face of growing landlessness and poverty . |
| 5 | Associated with cost is the gap that has developed between the ways in which essentially the same text is used by different groups of people . |
| 6 | A three-way dispute has developed about the costs of the venture . |
| 7 | Support for a new electoral system has developed since the mid-1970s , encompassing academics and politicians . |
| 8 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 9 | From 1066 and Battle of Hastings , you pass through the Abbey Gatehouse and see how the town has developed over the years . |
| 10 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 11 | Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years . |
| 12 | Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance . |
| 13 | In Thailand , for example , there is practised an ancient art of war which has developed over the centuries into a highly exciting spectator sport . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thereafter , male mortality rates in the last decades of life have been so much greater than those for females that a significant disparity has developed in the numbers of men and women in the older age-groups . |
| 16 | Before setting off they have to be briefed by the Intelligence Section on their tasks for the day , and the patrol leader has to report to the Operations Room for a study of his route . |
| 17 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 18 | We did n't , we have n't cos Les has to go through the books and charge |
| 19 | It 's with not knowing how one is that one has to go to the banks and so on . |
| 20 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 21 | For the club handicap player , the 1 and 2-irons , and if something has to go from the woods I would leave out either the driver or 2-wood . |
| 22 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |
| 23 | First the millionaire star — who has soared into the charts at No 16 with his new single Sentinel — landed shaking with terror after the plane doors flew open at 5,000 feet on one of his first training flights . |
| 24 | The beautiful duet , sung by Freddie and Montserrat Caballe , has sprinted into the charts at No 5 … leaving Sarah Brightman 's rival duet with Jose Carreras trailing 13 places behind . |
| 25 | Terence Johnson has pointed to the limits that can be placed on some professions by their clients or employers . |
| 26 | The pornographic film star Ilona Staller , alias La Cicciolina , has withdrawn from the lists , pleading marital pressure and pregnancy . |
| 27 | Penteli was an important quarry near Athens in Greece and recent research has distinguished between the products of the upper and lower quarries . |
| 28 | The local authority has arranged for the twins to attend some kind of daycare centre . |
| 29 | ‘ He apparently slipped and has fallen between the floors . ’ |
| 30 | That proportion has fallen since the mid-1960s . |