Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triton has also introduced a co-ordinating range of accessories in gold , chrome and white finishes . |
| 2 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 3 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 4 | I thought he was the highlight of that particular event and Jan has also impressed a certain Mr Satriani , who sang his praises in a Guitarist interview recently . |
| 5 | Cardiff has already begun a brighter future . |
| 6 | ICI has just developed a new composite widely touted to be a likely contender ; it is now undergoing clinical trials at Liverpool University . |
| 7 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 8 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 9 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 10 | This lush little box was recently made for you-know-who to hold his Watkins Copicat Retro-Classic ( Charlie Watkins has now reissued a modern , hand-built version of his famous valve-powered tape loop echo and preamp ) . |
| 11 | Colourists at the Michaeljohn salon apply the renowned Henara Natural Colouring Powders to craftily enhance the natural pigmentation of the hair and replace its sheen , and Henara has now added a Hot Oil Conditioner to this hair-care collection , which is especially useful for injecting life and gloss back into devitalised hair after the stresses of summer . |
| 12 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 13 | Caterham has already had a significant success in the US when it was invited to compete in the Sports Cars of America 's 24-hour race in Ohio , and won . |
| 14 | AEG has recently introduced a wide range of d-i-y power tools to this country . |
| 15 | However , despite the problems , WSL has recently inaugurated a new pilot plant for its contaminated land programme . |
| 16 | ‘ Angola has recently experienced a rapid intensification of civil strife , which … has made relief food distribution to large expanses of the country impossible , ’ the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation said . |
| 17 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |
| 18 | Blackwell has just published a posthumous collection of his articles ( The Heart of Europe : essays on literature and ideology , £15.95 ) . |
| 19 | On the other hand , administrative law in the United States has generally evinced a greater concern for allowing interested parties to express their views , than has United Kingdom doctrine . |
| 20 | Located in the Hawaiian Island of Oahu is Pearl Harbor where the United States has long maintained a massive naval presence which guards against an attack on the west cost of America . |
| 21 | Could it be , I mused , as I snuggled down into the Dodge 's heavily bolstered bucket seat on the autostrada running north of Milan to Switzerland , that Detroit has finally built a competent , European-style sporting saloon ? |
| 22 | With the League due to start next year , Gary Lineker has already signed a multi-million pound deal to play for Nagoya Grampus Eight . |
| 23 | Deprived of top-class service by an inexperienced midfield , Lineker has often appeared a lonely , frustrated figure in the midst of the opposing defence . |
| 24 | Sandvik has just launched a new model in the XT range , the XT2500 , with a 22in long blade . |
| 25 | This area of Falkirk has always had a resident population of these handsome but predatory birds . |
| 26 | Northern Ireland has already lost a large number of fine buildings , but Helen believes the tide is now turning . |
| 27 | VAUX chairman Paul Nicholson has always had a larger than life attitude to the manner in which he conducts his business . |
| 28 | And although Scotland has not had a wide reaching policy of moving psychiatric patients out of hospitals , community care for mentally ill people has advanced spontaneously . |
| 29 | Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible . |
| 30 | Neil Welliver has always had a special fondness for trees . |