Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [conj] has " in BNC.

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1 John has devised a system of tooling for turning nests of bowls , which he presented at the Loughborough seminar and has been taken up and will be marketed in the near future .
2 ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible .
3 It is this emphasis on controlling the money supply that has led to the title ‘ monetarist ’ .
4 ‘ I cycle around quite often and I expect I 'll be doing some cycling in the North Yorkshire Moors during the next two months , ’ said Karen who is a member of the Tandem Club and has been a member of various Cyclist Touring Clubs .
5 However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect .
6 Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian .
7 SIR — In all the election brouhaha that has commanded so much unenthusiastic attention this year , a fundamental change in the way composers are paid when their works are performed in public has been strangely neglected .
8 Does the right hon. Gentleman recall the promise of Bill Fyfe , chair of the Ayrshire and Arran health board : ’ the decision rests and has always rested with the hospital doctors .
9 Also selected for the first time is batsman Mohsin Chohan , who plays for the Bangor club and has appeared for Caernarfonshire in the past .
10 The miss rule that has dogged the game all season struck again in the third .
11 They went to : Doreen Bethwaite of High Road , Kells , who works in the preparation department and has been there 45 years .
12 WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’
13 It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim .
14 Could I just say colleagues that the the General Secretary is proposing that we 're having , we , we , we 're gon na , we gon na have the bucket collection as has been referred to during the course of the debate and it 's recommended that whatever is in the buckets that the union actually doubles the collection .
15 S. Mary 's Church is like Freckenhorst Abbey Church on the west front and has westwerk pattern in the form of a formidable fortified wall with small twin towers .
16 If , as Pieda and the SWA are suggesting , there is a community of interest between the industry and the Treasury , why have ministers so far refused to take any action despite the lobbying campaign that has been mounted ?
17 there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) .
18 The labour shortage that has resulted is further exacerbated by the traditional labour-intensive methods of Soviet industry and the tendency for enterprise managers to hoard labour .
19 The trail starts in the car park and has a hard level surface suitable for wheelchairs and pushchairs .
20 It is one of a limited number of boats designed by the car maker and has cost more than £20,000 to restore .
21 I , I 'm a general practitioner and I would like to back up initially what the convenor has said about the study pack that has come on child abuse but I have a question .
22 This pore lies close to the surface of the jaw but within the mouth slit and has 2–3 tentacle scales .
23 ( 6 ) Where a licensing board decides to make a closure order under this section , the order shall not take effect until the expiry of the time within which the holder of the licence may appeal to the sheriff , or , if the holder appeals to the sheriff or thereafter to the Court of Session , until the appeal has been determined in favour of the closure order or has been abandoned .
24 In tiny flats and bedsitters it 's more often the living room that has to make space for dining , in which case it 's a good idea to separate the two functions with either a physical division — like an arch , trellis or shelving — or with visual treatment like different lighting or flooring , or perhaps a change of colour or mood created by wall coverings and soft furnishings .
25 Though in the minority and benefiting from the support of the partisans of the former national coach Jacques Fouroux , Paparemborde mounted an effective opposition to the Ferrasse-Fabre axis and has emerged as an influential powerbroker .
26 Mr Alan Howarth , who joined the DES only in the July reshuffle and has little experience of and no responsibility for higher education , will be Mr Jackson 's back-up .
27 A secured creditor may , with the agreement of the trustee or leave of the court , at any time alter the value which he has , in his proof of debt , placed upon his security , but if he is the petitioner for the bankruptcy order or has voted in respect of his unsecured balance , he may revalue his security only with the leave of the court ( r 6.115 ) .
28 But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement .
29 ( c ) a delivery after initial failure , in which case either the wrong book is first sent , or delivery is made only after the call-slip has been returned for checking to the Issue Hall and has then been re-submitted , and
30 An army camp that was set up to support the Normandy landings and has become the lynchpin of the British Army is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary .
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