Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 2 | The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service . |
| 3 | Recently , another retailer has opened a store in the South of England and uses the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICE " . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 5 | If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged . |
| 6 | Intel Corp has confirmed a report in the San Francisco Chronicle that it will delay introduction of its Pentium microprocessor until May , but denies the paper 's assertion that it is holding the chip back to exploit demand for existing 80486 products . |
| 7 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |
| 8 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 9 | Opportunistically , Roy , Utah-based Iomega Corp has signed a letter of intent to become exclusive worldwide distributor for Nomai SA 's cartridge disks that are compatible with SyQuest Technology Inc drives and over which SyQuest has sued Nomai , trying to prevent the French company from manufacturing and selling cartridges for its drives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 12 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 13 | Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC . |
| 14 | Lane has breathed a sigh of relief that he therefore can not be caught this week , for Mark James ( 5th ) is his closest rival present and he is almost £75,000 points behind . |
| 15 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 16 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 17 | It 's hoped the machines can be repaired , but the person responsible for the damage has wasted a lot of time and money and delayed an important project . |
| 18 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 19 | New Scientist has obtained a copy of the unpublished report . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Also until such time as a creditor has lodged a proof of debt , he can not vote at meetings of creditors . |
| 22 | The Scotsman has obtained a copy of the mandate given to Mr Ford by the charity 's business administration secretary , Lt-Col Ivor Rich . |
| 23 | Reportedly the division has amassed a wealth of productivity tools from independent software vendors in support of the programme which in turn supports IBM mainframes , AS/400s , VAXes , Sparcs , PCs and perhaps eventually Macs . |
| 24 | Witco 's organic division has introduced a series of Formez ester and ether polyols for the manufacture of polyurethane oligomers used to formulate coatings for radiation curing systems . |
| 25 | In more recent times , English Heritage has completed a refurnishing of the house and restored the surrounding buildings . |
| 26 | Obviously your heart has taken a hell of a pounding . |
| 27 | By reference to the TUC 'S report on industrial democracy , it states the movement 's own position as follows : that the development of participation at national and local level has left a gap at company level which can only be filled by employee representation on the company board . |
| 28 | To get on to the housing ladder , the first-time buyer has to find a deposit of 5% or more of the property price , and with a typical housing price/income ratio of three times , this can represent 15% or more of annual income . |
| 29 | The IBM Personal Computer Co has formed a team under an executive hired last month from NEC Technologies executive to launch the cheapo Ambras in the US , US PC Week says . |
| 30 | 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 . |