Example sentences of "has [vb pp] such a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades .
2 It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however .
3 Mount Stewart has enjoyed such a bumper summer season that the National Trust has extended it by a month , every day except Tuesday .
4 The whole world has seen and heard our story , and it is in front of the whole world that reparation must take place , reflecting the scale of what was done to us , deploring the fact that a great country like France has accepted such a monstrous crime against us .
5 BARRY Hills , who has suffered such a wretched start to the season , was all smiles after Nicer ( 8–1 ) landed the Irish 1,000 Guineas in the hands of his son Michael at The Curragh yesterday .
6 Often the individual has done such a good job of ‘ forgetting ’ that this recall can only be achieved by means of regression .
7 I am disappointed the policy review has adopted such a negative attitude both to a Bill of Rights and electoral reform .
8 ‘ As for Julia , we are absolutely delighted she has made such a good recovery .
9 Yet it 's with one Tim Kerr that Arm has made such a fruitful creative bond , a veteran of many a Seattle minor-legend and prime mover behind The Monkeywrench 's persuasive slant on this historic sound .
10 ( Nora is presumably a Wonderful Ordinary Person , a type of whom Derek has made such a great fuss in the past . )
11 It is this complicated self-regulatory process that has made such a profound impression on the Gaianists ; i.e. the notion that living matter itself both defines and maintains the conditions necessary for survival , and that the chief physical features of the Earth are biologically controlled .
12 Could he explain how , in the following five or six years , he has made such a massive transformation ?
13 In view of the time that other reports have taken to produce — I attended day 167 of the Layfield committee inquiry on Sizewell recently — it is enormously to Lord Cullen 's credit that he has produced such a detailed and worthwhile document so quickly .
14 Jennings ( 1961 ) wrote that ‘ Research has produced such a variegated list of traits presumed to describe leadership , that for all practical purposes it describes nothing .
15 What has produced such a different approach ?
16 ‘ I do n't think there is any model who has had such a meteoric rise .
17 I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's
18 He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’
19 Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am very sorry to learn that my book has had such a distressing effect on you .
20 ‘ It has had such a marked effect on our safety performance that we are now organising shorter courses focused on specific needs , for example trade centres and the sales force . ’
21 No poet in the twentieth century has had such a conscious sense of his own work , or of the tradition in which he was operating .
22 It is one indication of why he has had such a unique influence on the history of mankind .
23 ‘ I 've never done anything that has had such a wonderful response .
24 What is more surprising is that the Nat Bell case has exercised such a mesmeric hold over our jurisprudence even though the premises leading to the conclusion have been rejected .
25 Measures to increase people 's resistance to infection are also important in prevention , and it is in this context that immunisation has played such a major role ( p. 82 ) .
26 Degradation of the waterfalls in the Vale of Neath area of the Brecon Beacons has reached such a critical level that urgent and radical action is required , according to a new national park study .
27 It could be that the outer estates are approaching some kind of basic ‘ subsistence , level , where disposable income has reached such a low level that future increases in unemployment will begin to have a smaller effect in reducing local incomes per head , simply because so many people are already dependent on state benefits .
28 Painting cars has become such a complex process that it can account or up to one-fifth of the manufacturing cost of a car .
29 This is one reason why the crackling sound of the geiger counter has become such a potent symbol of the dangers .
30 It is arguable that law has become such a potent anti-nuclear symbol because the use and aftermath of nuclear weapons pose such a threat to these values .
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