Example sentences of "have developed the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Du Pont Pixel which has developed the XGL library for Sun , is already rolling out OGI-compliant hardware and software , and launched its Sbus accelerator board at the SunExpo last week .
2 They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well ; The pioneer has developed the field and born the development costs .
3 I can only conclude by saying that I am sorry the situation has developed the way it has .
4 Called the Icarus Covert Insertion and Recovery Vehicle ( CIRV ) , it is the brainchild of Philip Parsons , a Flight Lieutenant with the RAF Regiment at North Luffenham and experienced hang-glider and microlight pilot who has developed the craft in his spare time .
5 In its place has developed the myth of philanthropy .
6 In one respect it is unique : it has developed the ability to move eggs from its own nest to another by carrying them in its beak .
7 Caruso , also working at the University of Pittsburgh has developed the TRAINER program of computer assisted instruction .
8 Henry James , for example , has said that with a good story ‘ the reader does quite half the labour ’ ( quoted in Booth , 1987 , pp.49–50 ) and around this idea has developed the theory of ‘ tell-tale gaps ’ .
9 We are not told directly in documents why one site was chosen rather than another , and , as yet , no one has developed the insight of the prehistoric , Anglo-Saxon or medieval colonist to understand fully the reasons why he used a particular bit of the landscape as he did .
10 Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness .
11 He might have forgotten about needing a visa because he 'd developed the prisoner mentality , so common among people who were never permitted to travel .
12 Dawn had at first been reluctant to get off my glove , so I 'd developed the habit of swinging my arm with the wind , hoping to encourage her to fly .
13 Having developed the framework for central co-ordination , the range of time sharing services made available to group or site departments now extends considerably beyond the facilities offered by GIS for the autonomous generation of information .
14 It is unfair to Moniz because he probably would have developed the technique of prefrontal leucotomy anyway and it is unfair on Jacobsen because the substance of Jacobsen 's work was that frontal lobe removal produced a severe cognitive deficit which no-one would wish on another person .
15 Although she has deplored leaks — and instituted more leak inquiries and prosecuted more civil servants for breaches of confidentiality than any of her predecessors her press office appears to have developed the technique of leaking against fellow Cabinet ministers to a fine art .
16 ‘ Yes … it seems to have developed the knack of trapping the sunlight within it . ’
17 The state testing programmes in the USA have been described in a survey by the Educational Testing Service ( 1973 ) , which reported that , although there were plans for many states to test a wide range of curriculum areas ( such as human relationships ) , few had developed the test technology sufficiently actually to carry out testing .
18 The Germans were fully cognisant of the strategical importance of this high ground and had developed the position to the utmost , using forced labour and that of unwilling prisoners .
19 While a strict Freudian interpretation of the function of dreaming would not necessarily imply that it preserved sanity so much as sleep , the neo-Freudians had developed the notion that during dreams conflicts were resolved , giving dreams a purpose in maintaining psychic equilibrium .
20 For one thing , Kant himself had developed the thought that the kingdom of God is to be identified or interpreted as the ethical organisation of human society .
21 By around 1520 they had developed the rose-cut or rosette by careful faceting of the convex face of a flat-based stone .
22 Like her , she thought , he had developed the skill of talking endlessly but saying little .
23 Mimi and her red-haired friend called ‘ Tiger ’ who looked like Rita Hayworth , had developed the habit of referring to him as ‘ Monsieur le Professeur ’ , for they knew that Jeffrey 's thousand-franc notes came from Minton .
24 I was cowering in my usual corner in Boots ' chemist 's shop in Scarborough , where I had developed the habit of a weekly weigh-in to keep a morbid eye on my progressive emaciation .
25 The latter had developed the view that ‘ social norms are constitutive rather than merely regulative of human nature before he was influenced by psychoanalytic theory ’ .
26 Nine of the patients had developed the virus , and three had died [ see p. 39161 for HIV-tainted blood scandal in France ] .
27 To make the point , he described a visit to a Toyota assembly line where they had developed the Kamba or Just in Time system .
28 He had been landlord of the village inn for a number of years and had developed the publicans ' inborn instinct for recognising potential trouble .
29 Fortunately for us , they had developed the custom of leaving a few of the wild cocoa trees when they felled the forest .
30 By the next morning Andy , 32 , had developed the SwitchGuard — a small plastic arm that can fit over a switch .
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