Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new accounting technique has almost trebled the 1991 profits to £620m . |
| 2 | The technique has indeed opened up a whole new area of meiotic investigation in the male . |
| 3 | This retailer has now taken it off the shelves whilst Gloucestershire 's Trading Standards Department investigates . |
| 4 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 5 | For the busy housewife has also found time to help with the Romanian Convoyaid , sending special parcels to thousands of orphans . |
| 6 | The Duchess has even taken up sketching to feel more at one with the subject of her new book ( Victoria apparently relied on her own sketches rather than paparazzi snaps or pictures in Hello ! as mementoes of overseas trips ) and admits that she , like the late Queen , is a ‘ tireless traveller ’ . |
| 7 | Event risk protection has generally taken the form of either protective covenants or a put-at-par option , which is exercisable if specific designated events occur that lead to a deterioration of credit quality rating to non-investment grade level . |
| 8 | It 's true that the protection has perhaps focused more on the higher quality land but that it is still there under clear policy guidance . |
| 9 | Despite a resident magpie — this year 's nest building has already begun — birds visiting the garden daily include blue tit , great tit , long-tailed tit and coal tit , siskin , greenfinch , sparrows , blackbirds , thrushes , robins and at the last count 11 chaffinches . |
| 10 | Externally , apart from general repair work , replacement of the windows , and landscaping , little has changed , although the building has now lost the look of a working mill . |
| 11 | The Chartered Institute of Building has recently addressed these issues through its Northern Counties Region 's European Initiative . |
| 12 | Local authority house building has virtually ceased , whereas private sector development has simply slowed down . |
| 13 | Agriculture has also provided the expanding industrial and tertiary sectors with their labour force . |
| 14 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
| 15 | Having moved away from an era of commodity support to one offering reward for environmental investment agriculture has largely shed the old ‘ featherbed ’ image . |
| 16 | In the remoter rural areas , where agriculture has traditionally held a virtual monopoly of employment opportunities , the declining demand for labour in agriculture has historically led to widespread rural depopulation . |
| 17 | In the remoter rural areas , where agriculture has traditionally held a virtual monopoly of employment opportunities , the declining demand for labour in agriculture has historically led to widespread rural depopulation . |
| 18 | The Ministry of Agriculture has now concluded that there is virtually no problem from salmonella in eggs ; and what problem there is will not be eased by going around the country slaughtering flocks of hens . |
| 19 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 20 | Reports suggest Microsoft Corp has nearly completed a compiler that will be used internally to generate applications for the PowerPC RISC being developed by Apple , IBM and Motorola . |
| 21 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 22 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 23 | Science Applications International Corp has finally introduced the ruggedised version of RDI Computer Corp 's BriteLite portable Sparc workstation , which was planned more than a year ago ( UX 339 ) . |
| 24 | Digital Equipment Corp has just named company veteran John O'Keefe , formerly vice-president , channels marketing , to the post of vice-president , Unix marketing , reporting to vice-president , Bill Demmer . |
| 25 | Stratus Computer Inc is moving its fault-tolerant Unix and VOS machines to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC from the Intel Corp 80860 , but IBM Corp has just renewed its OEM agreement with Stratus , which dates back to 1985 . |
| 26 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Cadence Design Systems Inc , San Jose , California , says it plans to use ObjectStore , to develop the next generation of its electronic design automation tools and its Design Framework II product , and Digital Equipment Corp has also taken ObjectStore with plans to use the database as a data repository with its PowerFrame software . |
| 28 | Bond Corp has already said this deadline may be delayed if the regulatory authorities insist that full Bond Corp accounts are included in the document . |
| 29 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 30 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |