Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [art] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMEDIAN Ken Dodd will put a smile on the faces of patients and staff when he visits the Royal Liverpool University Hospital next Wednesday to open the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service tea bar , which has undergone a £40,000 facelift . |
| 2 | This action , which has seen a 22% reduction in the workforce in the past twelve months , has brought costs under control and the recent devaluation of the Italian Lira is bringing new export opportunities . |
| 3 | Step forward Kyocera which has produced an 18ppm laser printer with a special drum which keeps cleaning and recycling the toner , and so never needs replacing . |
| 4 | Landlord John claims that a lot a weight is being thrown behind a lady in Essex who has knitted a 200ft history of the Colchester oyster from the unpicked sweaters of noted pop stars , including some fascinating applique work cunningly created from one of Madonna 's pointed bras . |
| 5 | Mr McKillen , who has offered a £100 reward to help trace the donkey , has not ruled out the possibility that a jealous rival owner may have taken Toby but fears he could already be dead . |
| 6 | Neither inspectors nor the police are entitled to demand a breathalyser test or a blood or urine sample from a surviving pilot who has had an aircraft accident — though if he is killed the coroner will never refuse permission for the pathologist to test the victim 's blood for alcohol content . |
| 7 | Blonde Mary , who has put the £255,000 house up for sale , said : ‘ Maybe TV is always very stressful with long hours . |
| 8 | He has adapted the MM diagrams accordingly ( see chart 6 ) . |
| 9 | The Trustee Savings Bank Ltd in Ireland is to upgrade its data network to a national X25 network : it has signed a £600,000 contract with Motorola Inc 's Codex for a network consisting of 6500 Series packet switches controlled by the 9800 Network Management System . |
| 10 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 11 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 12 | It has bought a 50pc interest in Merchant Ferries , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | It has bought a 50% interest in Merchant Ferries Ltd , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | It has bought a 50% interest in Merchant Ferries Ltd , which operates daily roll-on , roll-off services between Heysham , Fleetwood and Warrenpoint , Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | It has taken a 50pc stake in a yarn spinning mill and a 60pc stake in a scheme to produce industrial wool yarn for export . |