Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced Sales of players like Paul Simpson and Lee Nogan for three quarters of a million pounds simply to keep the club alive have become a neccessity . |
| 2 | General Automation Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $290,000 down from a loss last time of $594,000 , after tax credits of $225,000 this time , $38,000 last , on turnover that rose 0.4% at $11.1m . |
| 3 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 4 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 5 | Dancing on the podiums at the Milk Bar 's Friday night club Glam has become a hazardous business , due to the frenzied swaying of the Essex Girls that now monopolise them . |
| 6 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 7 | The 88open Consortium Ltd has released a compatibilty test suite for applications — in binary and object forms — running under Unix SVR4 on the Motorola Inc 88000 RISC . |
| 8 | ( The Children Act 1989 has abolished a rarely used power in section 40(1) of the Education Act 1944 to imprison the parent for up to one month . ) |
| 9 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 10 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 11 | In past interviews the Princess Royal has displayed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for pregnancy , describing it as a very boring nine months . |
| 12 | When told that Amnesty International had made a radical new departure in the choice of his successor , a decision that it was hoped would be regarded as courageous , Ian 's response was to nod . |
| 13 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 14 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc has introduced a fibre optic Advanced Broadcast Video Service high-speed transmission network to provide superior motion , colour and sound for applications in the film and broadcast worlds . |
| 15 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Arch Communications Group Inc has acquired a privately-owned paging company in New Hampshire for an undisclosed amount of cash , adding over 2,000 subscribers to its base . |
| 16 | Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize . |
| 17 | Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd has bought a 75-acre site next to the Motorola plant at Easter Inch Farm , ready to accommodate a number of international components suppliers keen to serve the £100 million factory . |
| 18 | The impending launch of MS-DOS 6 has upset a lot of utility program developers — after all , they made their money plugging the holes Microsoft left in the operating system . |
| 19 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc has announced a global technology transfer agreement with Jtec Pty Ltd from somewhere Down Under , through which it will incorporate the latter 's ISDN terminal adaptor technology into the hot new Retix RISC-based RouterXchange 7000 multiprotocol router . |
| 20 | Irvine , California-based , State Of The Art Inc has introduced a new accounting graphical user interface , Momentum . |
| 21 | Geac Computer Corp Ltd has reported a third quarter net loss equivalent to $5.6m after an exceptional charge of $8.6m for buying in of software research by the library automation business , against a profit last time of $2.9m , on turnover that rose 31.7% to $22.3m ; net loss for the nine months was $241,000 against a profit last time of $5.1m , on turnover that rose 17.9% at $58.7m . |
| 22 | Southwestern Bell Corp and the Panasonic unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd have developed a new personal communication service but we all have to wait until next Tuesday or Wednesday to find out what the service will be . |
| 23 | Far Eastern companies continue to invest in promising fledgling US companies , and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has taken a 20% stake in Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Array Microsystems Inc ; the value of the investment was not disclosed . |
| 24 | Unix International has introduced a second development version of Unix System V Release 4 Enhanced Security/Multiprocessing ( ES/MP ) . |
| 25 | Swearing that the deck is n't stacked in favour of Chorus Systemes SA , Unix International has assembled a Kernel Architecture Work Group including Amdahl Corp , Bellcore Technologies , Fujitsu Ltd , Hal Computer Systems Ltd , Intel Corp , Locus Computing Corp , Motorola Inc , NCR Corp , NEC , OSSI , Oracle Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc , Tandem Computers Inc , Unisys Corp and of course Chorus . |
| 26 | Unix International has issued a request for proposal ( RFP ) for technology that will let users link , transfer and share objects between documents created by different Unix desktop applications and between Unix and Microsoft Corp Windows applications . |
| 27 | Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year . |
| 28 | Granada UK Rental Ltd has signed a £5m contract with British Telecommunications Plc for a data communications network linking 400 Granada and Visionhire high street shops with the company 's customer account information centre in Bedford : the network uses the Global Network Services and partially replaces Granada 's existing dial-up network . |
| 29 | Radius Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $5.3m , against a $2.3m profit last time on sales that crashed 28.1% to $30.8m . |
| 30 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |