Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 2 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on the proposed council tax . |
| 4 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 5 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A particularly dangerous trap in analysis has developed with the increasing use of computers in data analysis . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is done only when the fluffy coat of the youngster has developed into the waterproofed fur covering of an adult . |
| 18 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 19 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 20 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 21 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 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 , as interest in training , and co-ordinated training programmes has developed throughout the 70s and 80s , so has interest in co-operative training schemes . |
| 24 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 25 | This happens when tension , which has developed in the rectal wall , impedes further radial expansion . |
| 26 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 27 | There has developed in the past decade or two a mass audience for previously specialized cultural forms . |
| 28 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 29 | Still owned by its employees , Meiko has broken into the American and Japanese supercomputer markets , and now has offices across the US and in Europe . |
| 30 | 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 . |