Example sentences of "developed a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes .
2 Within prolonged breeding species , individual frogs or toads have developed a variety of different reproductive strategies .
3 Animals also need to cope with the severity of winter , and they have developed a variety of ways of doing this .
4 Voluntary organizations , notably local branches of MIND , and others specially created for the purpose , such as the Peter Bedford Trust , have developed a variety of sheltered work schemes .
5 However , just as the fourteenth-century English mystics present a variety of responses to a core of dogmatically formulated belief , the tradition they inherited developed a variety of particular views on the nature of mystical experience in relation to Christian orthodoxy .
6 At Nottingham we have developed a technique for measuring reflux of radiolabelled food into the oesophagus in ambulant subjects using a highly collimated cadmium telluride gamma detector , which is worn in a harness over the oesophagus .
7 A company in South Australia , Rib Loc , has developed a technique for turning plastic bottles into pipes .
8 Tainsh ( 1985 ) has developed a technique in which a computer-based simulation of a generic information handling task is used to assist in analysing the behaviour of an operator or a team of operators .
9 SCIENTISTS have developed a vaccine against types of pneumonia , meningitis and blood poisoning which claim thousands of lives in Britain a year and 10 million lives worldwide .
10 They 've developed a reputation as one of the world 's leading ship builders .
11 It had been operational as Lancaster College of Technology since 1960 , conceived by the local authority in Coventry as a major institution , and had rapidly developed a reputation as such , expanding rapidly , and playing an important part in the committees and boards of the CNAA .
12 Having cut his teeth at Disney Studios , Lasseter has developed a reputation with a series of shorts over the past five years which have brought together the very best aspects of hand and computer animation , creating something quite special in the process .
13 STRABANE-based Adria , the province 's leading hosiery manufacturer has developed a reputation for pushing beyond the traditional boundaries in the hosiery industry .
14 ‘ In the environmental field especially , opencast mining companies have developed a reputation for minimum disruption and scrupulous site restoration .
15 And that , like all natural observers , he has developed a knack of deflecting curiosity about himself .
16 The group as you are aware do have a vision statement , erm which has been published er and it was er developed a couple of years ago er great effort by the er management team .
17 Whelks have developed a radula on a stalk which they can extend beyond the shell and use to bore into the shells of other molluscs .
18 This is why Barclays has developed a range of insurance products and services designed to meet the needs of independent businesses .
19 Tanshire Equipment has developed a range of mobile , self-contained , refrigerated pressure vessels for the handling of thermolabile products .
20 He argues that management has developed a range of responses and has attempted to maintain control through the use of industrial relations procedures , through bureaucratic rules which channel conflict into manageable and acceptable ways , and especially through the use of internal labour markets and dual labour markets which divide and segment the working class .
21 BT has developed a range of new software , including both packages that will help customers either to type in the data for the returns and tailored solutions to retrieve the data automatically from existing accounting systems .
22 The Hoskyns Group have developed a range of computers specially tailored to the hotel industry .
23 We have developed a range of short courses related to health , lifestyle and the environment making extensive use of the farm , woodland and Country Park .
24 Many companies have developed a range of these programs to satisfy their own needs and requirements .
25 In the last 21 years the British state has developed a range of counter-insurgency techniques which have been exported all over the world : ‘ special units ’ such as the SAS , sectarian shoot-to-kill squads , political laws , special courts , media censorship and new styles of torture which leave no mark .
26 In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context .
27 Reflecting the connection between good teaching and its management and good learning , institutional statements about the principles of in-service work include , as an example , " The ultimate aim of all in-service education for teachers is the improvement of pupil/student learning through the development of teachers as reflective , autonomous professionals who have not only developed a range of skills but also a broad knowledge of understanding of subject content and of the conceptual framework of teaching and learning . "
28 This usually entailed placement at a very tender age , because it would be difficult for some parents to deal with the issue of race and colour if the child had developed a sense of racial identity and pride in his or her heritage .
29 ‘ They did not … see themselves as black or show any real sign of having developed a sense of racial identity ’ ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 139 ) .
30 One royal observer says : ‘ He was the envy of fellow officers and inevitably developed a crush on the princess .
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