Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [conj] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form of monetary policy that has been favoured in recent years is the control of interest rates . |
| 2 | The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] . |
| 3 | Dr. Mawhinney has become accustomed over the years to bring in the middle of political contention and has taken very good care to cultivate his patch . |
| 4 | Liverpool seems unique , not simply because of the scale of its problems but also because of the consistent pattern of political conflict that has characterized so much of what has happened in the city and in its relations with central government . |
| 5 | ( The position in Canada , however , is somewhat different since the union movement there — probably because of the different system of government — has developed a broader view of political ideology and has close ties with the New Democratic Party . ) |
| 6 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , then , had its origins in the law of private nuisance and has often been treated as a particular species of nuisance . |
| 7 | Peter Austin , former Middle East salesman for GEC Marconi , heads a group of private investors that has raised £12 million for the project . |
| 8 | Although Rhee poses plausibly as champion of Corean independence and has made a deep impression on sentimental audiences in United States , his admittedly genuine desire for the country 's independence is really the desire of a megalomaniac . |
| 9 | The Rhine is one of the central facts of European geography and has always marked a boundary . |
| 10 | Sadly , that insensitivity to national sympathies undermines the fundamental principles of European co-operation and has helped to build a stronger anti-European feeling in this country than is truly justified . |
| 11 | As figure 1 illustrates the Chemicals sector now represents 10% of total exports and has shown a 15% increase from £722.9 million in 1989 to £833.3 million in 1990 . |
| 12 | The concept of bad faith has remained either largely in the region of hypothetical cases or has been treated as synonymous with improper purposes or relevancy . |
| 13 | The remarkable spell of dry weather that has affected much of eastern Britain since the autumn of 1988 continued in 1990/91 ; the autumn was particularly dry . |
| 14 | The all-over sole pattern has been found to be short of downhill adhesion and has disappeared from the market . |
| 15 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 16 | It should be realised that the explosion of extreme-right support that has been a feature of most western European countries in greater or lesser degree throughout the 1980s is far from a totally homogeneous phenomenon . |
| 17 | Equally we might take " nature " as being so predominant in Alison 's whole being and actions that we thus recognize church-going to be a part of medieval culture that has become so instinctive an act as to be part of the essential rhythm of medieval life . |
| 18 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 19 | And he has given the club back its pride , passion , and the kind of penetrative football that has awoken the North East . |
| 20 | This writer has never attended a more populated exhibition of Old Masters and has rarely overheard so much intelligent discussion , particularly from ‘ ordinary ’ visitors . |
| 21 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 22 | We operate a full range of specialised equipment that has been modified for aircraft application . |
| 23 | How , for example , can a man be a British citizen when he is born in a foreign country of foreign parents and has never been naturalised ? |
| 24 | Peru was beginning to share in an increased flow of foreign investment that has benefited the whole continent . |
| 25 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 26 | This residual approach adopts a simplistic explanation of social problems and has faith in the inherent validity of the existing social system ( Callahan , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | It is today less dismissive of other approaches to the study of social life and has found a niche as a specialized way of analysing how people make sense of , construct , and confirm their world-view and their way of life . |
| 28 | Modernism certainly had its place in the destruction of the ancien régime , but it is only one particular form of social change and has recently been most conspicuous in its failures . |
| 29 | A recently widowed friend of mine , well into her 80s , writes to say that she ‘ was asked to speak on bereavement-coping at a conference of social works and has had two more bookings as a result . ’ |
| 30 | But it is just such a view that could be said to lie at the heart of a second major theory of social stratification that has emerged more recently in sociology : the functionalist theory of stratification . |