Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 2 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Recently , British milk producers have received less for their milk than most of the other countries in Europe , and the housewife has paid more for milk on the doorstep than housewives in Europe . |
| 4 | Janet Hargreaves has worked regularly in the West End , at the important provincial theatres ( Birmingham , Nottingham , Chichester etc. ) and on television in Dr Who , Crossroads , The Avengers , Voyage Around My Father and many other plays and serials . |
| 5 | Neighbours say Barbara Mooney has kept up to twenty six German Shepherds in the garden of her semi detached home . |
| 6 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 7 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 8 | Intel Corp has cut up to $100 off the price of its OverDrive Processors . |
| 9 | As Compaq Computer Corp comes down market with its new servers , Dell Computer Corp has shot upmarket with introducing the Dell 466SE/DSA , a server that incorporates a new Dell SCSI Array high capacity drive array , with Intel Corp 's 80486DX2 microprocessor . |
| 10 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 11 | The Webster Research Center of Xerox Corp has teamed up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to investigate the behaviour of atoms and molecules on the surface of microelectronic materials : the three-year , $2.5m project is funded jointly by Xerox and the US Department of Energy through a co-operative research and development pact . |
| 12 | Starstruck IBM Corp has teamed up with Boss Film Studios to devise software tools on IBM 's Power Visualisation System for key functions in the entertainment industry 's evolving all-digital film studio . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has teamed up with Enabling Technologies Group Inc , Atlanta in an effort to plunder Hewlett-Packard Co 's Domain/OS customer base : it will offer Enabling 's Arpus collection of tools and services to assist organisations moving from Domain/OS systems to IBM 's AIX/6000 Unix systems ‘ while protecting the customer 's investment in business-critical applications ; ’ the two will particularly go after the 15,000 Domain/OS customers that use Mentor Graphics Inc 's electronic design automation tools . |
| 14 | BellSouth Corp has teamed up with Wellfleet Communications Inc to market high-speed network systems and services to link multi-vendor local area networks over BellSouth 's Frame Relay and its Switched Multimegabit Data Services . |
| 15 | LSI Logic Corp has teamed up with TV/COM International Inc , San Diego supplier of equipment used by cable companies , satellite operators and business television users , for the joint development of digital compression components for the satellite , cable and direct broadcast satellite television industries : the products will be designed to facilitate the transition from analogue to digital television , and they will be based on the Motion Picture Experts Group-2 standard , which is currently undergoing the formal standardisation procedure by a committee of the International Standards Organisation ; TV/COM International is the company that was formerly called Oak Communications . |
| 16 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
| 17 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
| 18 | Unisys Corp has come out with an enhanced version of its one-year-old Open/OLTP on-line transaction processing environment , which uses Unix System Labs Inc 's Tuxedo TP monitor . |
| 19 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 20 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
| 21 | Ecgfrith has suffered historically by comparison with Edwin , Oswald [ q.v. ] , and Oswiu , his great Northumbrian predecessors , and by reason of his final failure in the north . |
| 22 | Each time she does so , the male has to dig down to the buried vegetation and cover it over again . |
| 23 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 24 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 25 | If the story has gone through to printing the PRO 's stock will be even lower and he should not expect very good coverage in the future . |
| 26 | The story has slipped back to page two , though , I notice . |
| 27 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 28 | So far , the case discussed in this book for the extended use of the industrial co-operative as a form of organisation for production or provision has stood primarily upon the proposition that it is an expression of authentic industrial democracy , that such an extension would help to fill a debilitating gap in the practice in the United Kingdom of western liberal principles , to mend what Bertrand Russell calls ‘ this disruption of democracy from within' . |
| 29 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 30 | A POLO sponsorship deal won by Major Ron Ferguson has gone up in smoke — only weeks after Fergie 's topless snaps were revealed . |