Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the general squeeze over the past year ITN has turned to additional revenue raisers . |
| 2 | Vice president of sales Tony Giannelli has gone to start-up OpenBook as vice president of marketing . |
| 3 | The briefing note which the CPC has sent to local Conservative associations gives Age Concern England as a contact point for further information . |
| 4 | Hungary has appealed to foreign zoos to find them a home . |
| 5 | If , as a designer , Prowse has adhered to aesthetic standards , his adaptation has a multi-layered seriousness , or even a spiritual dimension , which alters and enhances the original . |
| 6 | A long history of water surpluses over much of the area of the Outer Hebrides has led to severe leaching of many Hebridean soils , and to the formation of peaty podzols , gleys and peaty gleys and ultimately peat itself ( Hudson et al . |
| 7 | We are sure that your readers know that the war against Croatia has intensified to catastrophic proportions . |
| 8 | The Rover Group 's success , largely due to the high-tech Cowley-made Rover has contributed to heavy profits for its new parent , British Aerospace . |
| 9 | With the abolition of the metropolitan councils in 1986 , responsibility for the supervision of the PTEs has passed to joint boards of delegates from each of the metropolitan boroughs . |
| 10 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 11 | Much of the bank 's lending in the UK has gone to major public sector developments such as the Sullom Voe oil terminal in the Shetland Isles , British Rail 's advanced passen-ger train , and various National Water Council projects . |
| 12 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 13 | Although the weather forecast for Sunday has changed to windy and cloudy with showers , it will not bother Tolstikov . |
| 14 | And that bodes ill for future stability ; after all , King Hussein of Jordan has bowed to popular pressure during the past six months in opposing war and has only earned Western enmity for his democratic behaviour ! |
| 15 | CCG HAS soared to new heights by securing the catering contract for the tallest building in the City of London , the National Westminster Tower . |
| 16 | The House of Lords has declined to narrow this requirement by demanding that D recognized the risk , and it has also been held that the dangerousness should be judged on the actual circumstances , ignoring D 's mistaken belief about the facts . |
| 17 | Heseltine has taken to private chats with the backbench malcontents in a last effort to smooth some sort of passage for his proposals , but the word is that there remain a frustrating number of irreconcilables around . |
| 18 | ‘ I hear Father Marr has taken to digging pits for the unwary . ’ |
| 19 | During the last year , like many businesses , GDA has responded to economic circumstances by restructuring and slimming down our organisation . |
| 20 | With her teenage son on the brink of independence , Pamela Constantinides has returned to full-time work for the first time in 16 years . |
| 21 | Now that SunSoft has committed to new Solaris releases every six months , the features requirement list for each release closes some six months before the final code specification and the release date are fixed . |
| 22 | And Im sure Wilko has spoken to frank about the situation . |
| 23 | Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing : that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true . |