Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 4 | The name change has come about as a result of LASMO plc 's reduction in its interest in the Canadian company . |
| 5 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , intended to help companies to investigate ownership of their shares under s 212 of the Companies Act 1985 ( p 100 ) . |
| 6 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , which it believes will help companies investigate their shares under s 212 of the 1985 Companies Act . |
| 7 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices Inc PC-X Division has come up with a $200 software package that lets a personal computer at home or in the field access applications on remote Unix- or VMS-based host computers . |
| 8 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 9 | The recession has led only to a ‘ period of consolidation ’ — in Tony 's words — but expansion is not too far away . |
| 10 | It 's estimated the case trial has cost up to a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 12 | When a cut has to extend up to a wall , for example , the sole plate can be moved back , out of the way , by turning just one central screw . |
| 13 | Many a Jewish courtship has got off to a somewhat greasy start over pickled brisket sandwiches and chips on fine evenings outside the deli . |
| 14 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 15 | The London based group Centrepoint has come up with a plan to bring together the people needed to get more homes . |
| 16 | The half-circle had spread almost into a circle . |
| 17 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 18 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 19 | ‘ Mind this patch , it 's slippery , ’ Weasel warned as he traversed a landing where snow had drifted in through a broken skylight . |
| 20 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 21 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 22 | They challenge two assumptions commonly made , either implicitly or explicitly , in conventional organisation theory : ( a ) that an institution adopts that form of organisation which best fits its technology , environment , and other contingent factors , the ‘ best fit ’ being in terms of that organisation structure most suited to co-ordinating the tasks performed by members of that institution ; ( b ) that members of the institution have entered freely into a contract with that institution to provide a service to that institution in return for reward , and that they accept as legitimate both the institutional goals and the means of co-ordination used to achieve those goals ( rational/legal authority ) . |
| 23 | And finally tonight Moseley rugby club have come up with a very different approach to pre-season training , I have to tell you it is not what you 'd expect from the lads from the Readings . |
| 24 | Banking involvement in the MBO scene has contracted sharply as a whole tier of European and Far Eastern banks , which took on MBO debt in the eighties because of the lucrative margins available , melted away and left the field to a handful of long-standing domestic participants such as NatWest , Barclays and Bank of Scotland . |
| 25 | Almost two years later , the committee has come up with a document , which could be adopted early this month . |
| 26 | After long deliberations , the UIAA 's Alpinism Committee has come up with a draft code of practice which , while largely common sense , has the welcome bonus of strong presumption in favour of conservation . |
| 27 | Lastly , windblown sand has accumulated up to a height of 150 metres , where rock-cored hills with gentle slopes lie close to beach or eroding dune areas which furnish a steady supply of sand . |
| 28 | His mother says it 's not the first time a window has fallen out of a school coach , and she 's calling for action to make the buses safe . |
| 29 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 30 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |