Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A report published by a review body for the Ministry of Agriculture has described the current badger slaughter policy of the Ministry as " unconvincing " .
2 A two-year grant has established the above group in order to promote and facilitate the use of the National Child Development Study ( NCDS ) data , held in the ESRC Data Archive , by secondary analysts .
3 Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships .
4 Digital Equipment Corp has announced the final stage of its 18-month European reorganisation programme .
5 NEC Corp has entered the parallel processor business with the launch in Japan of the Cenju-3 , built from eight to 256 MIPS Technologies Inc VR4400 RISC microprocessors .
6 NEC Corp has entered the parallel processor business with launch in Japan of the Cenju-3 , built from eight to 256 MIPS Technologies Inc VR4400 RISC microprocessors .
7 Oracle Corp has introduced the Co-operative Development Environment , CDE , an integrated set of tools designed to enable organisations to create , deploy and maintain client-server applications .
8 Travel : Copse and robbers Christopher Somerville sees how woodland has usurped the ancient cattle thieves of the Cheviot Hills
9 The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them .
10 Warton has provided the following description of a man of eighty , who was sole mourner at the funeral of his equally aged wife .
11 That decision has angered the dead man 's family .
12 And I think that it might be useful , Mr Chairman to emphasize the fact that we are a rural county , and a rural county has specific rural problems , er , and I do n't think that the district auditor has recognized the particular problems that we have er , in a rural county .
13 Derek Polson , a CCG storeman at KG Ethylene Offsite stores , showed he knows all there is to know about fork lift driving when he scored a perfect 100 per cent in his driving test — the first time a driver has achieved the maximum score at Hargreaves Training in Glasgow .
14 Wherever they have been operating , persons whose dishonesty has infringed the criminal law , on the basis of reliable and admissible evidence , will continue to be prosecuted .
15 The division has poisoned the neighbouring countries ' relations — further complicated because the official language of Ghana is English , that of Togo French .
16 In traditionally examined courses such as the current HNC or HND , the criterion for award of prizes may simply be that the winner has obtained the top mark when all students across the length and breadth of the country are compared .
17 Tartus has become the primary maintenance facility for Soviet submarines operating in the Mediterranean .
18 Your coverage has kept the Western Mail ahead of all other papers .
19 Further , it is probably only when the GP has performed the initial expert task of transforming signs and symptoms into an organised illness , that the patient can formulate the help he requires as possibly beyond the competence of his GP .
20 Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened .
21 This response has incorporated the respectable face of feminism , concerned with ‘ equal rights ’ , into its understanding and provision , with a range of initiatives intended to acknowledge the justice of equal opportunities .
22 After the beginner has acquired the basic principles of kung fu and enough knowledge to string together simple one- and two-step techniques , he comes into contact with what are known as ‘ forms ’ .
23 Parliament has placed the primary responsibility for their enforcement on local authorities and it is for them to decide their own course of action .
24 First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government .
25 ‘ Faced with the myriad opportunities for the concealment of fraudulent activities which companies and trusts provide , Parliament has given the Serious Fraud Office the power to call upon a suspected person to come into the open , and to disclose information which may incriminate him .
26 It is anticipated that once Parliament has approved the general thrust of legislation , the rest can be left to the department to implement piecemeal as is appropriate and convenient .
27 However since that date parliament has passed the Matrimonial Homes and Property Act 1981 , the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 and the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 .
28 PRIVATISATION of the Crown Suppliers will go ahead quickly once Parliament has passed the enabling bill which received its second reading yesterday , the Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , told the Commons yesterday .
29 Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development .
30 Does my hon. Friend agree that the figures given demonstrate clearly that nationalisation has failed the Scottish coal industry and that the only hope now is that it will be privatised in the imminent future ?
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