Example sentences of "has [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CCG HAS soared to new heights by securing the catering contract for the tallest building in the City of London , the National Westminster Tower . |
| 2 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 3 | It has fallen to salaried professionals in universities , public record offices , the Business Archives Council , corporate bodies themselves — and the ‘ vanity press ’ — to salvage and conserve the tons of old papers explaining the historical context of what tumbled off the production line . |
| 4 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 5 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |
| 6 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 7 | That figure has referred to preventative services . |
| 8 | The Indonesian government has responded to environmental concerns by banning the construction of all new hotels on the popular tourist island of Bali . |
| 9 | It has responded to internal and external stimuli and absorbed the tensions between local and central needs and ‘ top-down ’ and ‘ bottom-up ’ initiatives . |
| 10 | During the last year , like many businesses , GDA has responded to economic circumstances by restructuring and slimming down our organisation . |
| 11 | The Soviet government has responded to Finnish concerns by agreeing to take steps to cut sulphur emissions from two major mining and metalwork complexes close to the Finnish frontier . |
| 12 | One Yukpa village has responded to repeated harassment by setting up a barricade to stop the company setting up mining equipment on their land . |
| 13 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has responded to widespread complaints that US software companies rip off their European customers by adjusting the prices of its products in Europe to conform with the prices in the US . |
| 14 | The broadly favourable response from all quarters to the New Brighton and Vauxhall draft area strategies suggests MDC has succeeded in allaying local fears of inappropriate development and has responded to local aspirations in a way that will promote co-operation with the private sector . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A group of 11 companies has committed to developing products conforming to the joint AT&T Co-Hewlett-Packard Co proposal for 100Mbps Ethernet , despite the fact that the IEEE has yet to decide whether to adopt it as a standard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is , perhaps , the closest that social science has come to pure " empiricism " or , as it is sometimes referred to , " vulgar fact gathering " . |
| 19 | The distinctiveness now shown , combined with a penchant for dub-style work-outs , has come to full , almost jazzy , fruition with ‘ Eva Luna ’ . |
| 20 | I re do regret that this has come to full council yet again because I thought we 'd already had the debate . |
| 21 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 22 | The £2 million costs are being found by the museum itself , together with Strathclyde Regional Council and the Fondation Mécénat which has looked to private sponsorship . |
| 23 | This issue has become particularly important in recent years as the volume of Third World debt has grown to unmanageable proportions ( see Ch. 29 ) . |
| 24 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to British Telecom ( BT ) expressing concern about the likely effects on older people of the price rises announced on 1 August ( see Information Circular , September 1991 ) . |
| 25 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
| 26 | LINDA McCartney , wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney , has written to Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating to express disgust at the premier 's investment in a pig farm . |
| 27 | Parish Clerk Weekley , that man of power and aerial photographs , is pushing for a further diversion to include free eye-testing for the old , and has written to local doctors advising them of this . |
| 28 | Peter Sands , editor of The Northern Echo has written to Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten to say that if letters of accreditation or normal Press cards were acceptable , then the paper would be happy to cover ministerial visits . |
| 29 | In the light of the findings , Friends of the Earth has written to Overseas Development Minister Lynda Chalker , asking for an urgent review of the UK 's expanding forestry aid programme . |
| 30 | At the same time unemployment has risen to new levels for the post-war years and continues to remain high . |