Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Scottish Ladies ' Golfing Association has named a 12-strong girls ' squad for Sunday 's training match against Helensburgh boys . |
| 3 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 4 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
| 5 | The Chancellor has shifted a few factors around , that 's all . |
| 6 | Mudhoney 's move from hardcore grunge to quite melodic ( with a serrated edge ) pop has caused a few followers to bail out in search of more ‘ serious ’ stuff . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland . |
| 8 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 9 | Hutchison Telecommunications UK Ltd 's Hutchison Paging has launched a financial services pager for private investors in a joint venture with the Financial Times Cityline stocks and shares information line : the pager covers 3,000 shares and within one minute of a chosen counter reaching a pre-set value , the pager automatically bleeps and displays a phone number , which can be called to hear the details ; the pager costs £160 plus tax , and includes a year 's subscription to the service , which will cost £100 plus tax for subsequent years . |
| 10 | The Agency has produced a new leaders ' guide for people organising outings of up to five miles with family or friends . |
| 11 | At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend . |
| 12 | Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses . |
| 13 | The National Economic Development Office has organised a specialised organics seminar , Chemistry for a better environment — environmental challenges and opportunities in the specialised organics sector , on 17 March 1992 in Manchester . |