Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil . |
| 2 | In the US , National Starch and Chemical has introduced a line of starch-based fat substitutes , Hercules has introduced a substitute based on pectin and Procter and Gamble has developed Olestra , a combination of fatty acids and sugars . |
| 3 | The Führer has had a bunker constructed below the Chancellery . |
| 4 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 5 | The Clinton administration has endorsed a practice known as " mitigation banking " , under which property owners are allowed to develop protected wetlands in exchange for a payment into a fund to restore other wetland areas . |
| 6 | Ashridge Management College has designed a programme aimed at equipping Robson Rhodes partners with business counselling skills . |
| 7 | Why would Beatrix have sent a document entrusted to her by her brother fifty years ago to her nephew 's mistress ? ’ |
| 8 | The Black and Tans had captured a fella called Michael Fitzgerald , an important IRA leader . |
| 9 | The Witch of Jura had forced a man called MacPhie of Colonsay to stay on the island . |
| 10 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 11 | The foreign element is of no particular relevance where the company in question has granted a debenture secured by a floating charge in the English form . |
| 12 | And even at the zenith of his power Greenwich Village had remained a place shielded from some of his excesses , open to the pull of Europe , a haven for the dissident , the Bohemian , the dropout . |
| 13 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , being constructive , members of the Union of Construction , Allied Trades and Technicians have published a report entitled ’ Kick-start ’ , which makes various proposals on how to get people back to work and revive the economy . |
| 15 | Tt nana 's got a toffee coated grape . |
| 16 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |
| 17 | The Division of Communication of the United Church of Canada has launched a newsletter entitled ( In ) communicado to keep Church members and colleagues in closer touch with its communication activities and with each other . |
| 18 | As state Premier between 1983 and 1988 , Burke had established a strategy known as Western Australia Incorporated — a partnership between the state government and some of the country 's leading entrepreneurs , which had resulted in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars of public money and the establishment of a Royal Commission to investigate the affair . |
| 19 | Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft . |
| 20 | By October 1984 the Housing Committee Working Group had accepted a scheme prepared by Gordon Durham Homes Ltd. for the development of the site as high-value housing . |
| 21 | Ed had entered a draw run by a local record store . |
| 22 | The room had become a grotto savaged by a storm , inhabited by a monster , its walls and floor and ceiling punctuated with distorted stalactites and oddly coloured fungi and treacherous moss . |
| 23 | On The Record 's obtained a paper prepared by a committee including senior civil servants and the Treasury and Transport Department , called the Restructuring Working Group , the report forecasts an increase in the amount of taxpayer 's money subsidizing the railways , this year it will be eight hundred and fifty million pounds , after privatization , the paper says , the central government grant requirement would total some two billion pounds in nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 24 | Meanwhile vendors and users including Aspect Telecommunications Inc , Envoy Systems Inc , Ericsson , IBM Corp and Logica Plc have formed a group called the Association of Computer Telephone Integration Users & Suppliers or ACTIUS . |
| 25 | Since their move , the wife has felt a burden lifted from her shoulders , and has been restored to her former carefree self . |
| 26 | At the trial of two eleven year old boys accused of murdering the toddler James Bolger the court has heard a statement given to the police by James 's mother Denise . |
| 27 | THE Academy of Wine Service has introduced a course designed to update senior managers , sommeliers and waiters on recent developments , innovations and service skills in wine . |
| 28 | It was claimed that the Ptolemaic builders at Edfu in constructing the great girdle wall had followed a design written down by Imhotep . |
| 29 | North also testified that Poindexter had destroyed a document signed by the then President , Ronald Reagan , which had characterized the shipment as an arms-for-hostages arrangement . |
| 30 | The Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries have made a videotape called ‘ Actuaries ’ which is available for viewing from university and polytechnic career services . |