Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 2 | In the first case the creditor has obtained a grant from the praetor entitling him to take possession of certain property of the debtor in order to secure his loan . |
| 3 | Ingres in Eastern Europe , Russia Hewlett-Packard Co has taken a licence from Ask Computer Systems Inc to distribute the Ingres relational database and application development tools throughout Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States . |
| 4 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 5 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 6 | The Sultan of Brunei has received a doctorate from Oxford University . |
| 7 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 8 | One of the world 's richest colonies of blue coral , situated off Japan 's southern island of Ishigaki has won a reprieve from development and , marine biologists believe , destruction . |
| 9 | Speaking of regulars , the comp complex has had a letter from G Douglas Vaisey pointing out what we all know , viz that ‘ the compers club is a mite exclusive ’ . |
| 10 | Lack of money and bureaucratic confusion has left a legacy from the Victorian era with the state looking backwards , remodelling ancient buildings and patching up a system of care which is fragmentary , pitifully inadequate and increasingly inadequate to the elderly age group . ’ |
| 11 | Business in Scotland has received a boost from our creation of Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 12 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 13 | Harari says that ACtec has hired a team from the Israeli army to work on spread-spectrum technology and ‘ they know what they are doing ’ . |
| 14 | The council has endorsed a recommendation from the committee that there should be no change to the restrictions placed on inter-dealer broker services , which many market makers have criticised . |
| 15 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 16 | The difference between these nodes is the degree to which the reader thinks the author has provided a text from which some meaning is recoverable . |
| 17 | Just a wellie-chuck from the Welsh border , the town has earned a living from the land for centuries . |
| 18 | In building up its stable of branded prescription drugs , Medeva has bought a number from SmithKline Beecham , including Dexedrine , which can be regarded as a UK equivalent of methylphenidate , and the products Normax and Micralax , which are used to treat constipation arising from use of opiates in severe pain cases . |
| 19 | On the mid-price Archiv Galleria label-an invaluable source of excellent baroque material-DG has issued a selection from Simon Preston 's splendid collection with the Christ Church Cathedral Choir and Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert of Purcell 's Anglican church music . |
| 20 | ‘ The Prefect has had a call from the Minister . |
| 21 | HOUSEWIFE Alma Brownrigg , who emigrated from Chelmsford , Essex , to Malta has received a bill from Eastern Electricity for 1p . |
| 22 | Bell Atlantic Corp 's Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co of West Virginia has had a fillip from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which raised its senior unsecured debt rating to double-A-plus from double-A , affecting about $265m of debt , the move being made in the expectation that the company 's network modernisation and supportive regulation will help it to improve an already strong debt service capacity . |
| 23 | Toc H has invited a representative from the police vice squad and a local health worker involved with AIDS awareness to the seminar . |
| 24 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 25 | He was in this production of In Parenthesis and Burton has described a highlight from Thomas 's performance . |
| 26 | THE ECHO 'S champion chippy has taken a battering from a fire . |
| 27 | But after seeing Celtic sensationally overturn a two-goal deficit against Cologne and Stuttgart land in the dock for fielding too many foreigners against Leeds , Francis said : ‘ Their League has suffered a bit from an exodus of top stars to Italy . |
| 28 | The apostle there that wrote that letter has quoted a verse from somewhere out of the Hebrew has n't he ? |
| 29 | This year the scheme has won a grant from Children in Need but the cheque will be sent back if local people continue to snub the event , she added . |
| 30 | Toronto-based CAE Industries Ltd reports that its CAE-Link Corp unit has won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence for a higher formation battle trainer for the British Army : terms were not disclosed , but CAE-Link will develop , install and maintain a command-and-control trainer to simulate a round-the-clock battle in real time for up to six weeks , creating the battlefield communications flow between the staff being trained , higher headquarters and subordinate unit headquarters ; it will consist of a central server networked to 170 controller and operator stations at two sites in the UK and Germany ; it has to be transportable for use at other training sites . |