Example sentences of "developed [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A little firm just down the road had developed QDOS — Quick and Dirty Operating System — which looked just right for IBM 's PC. $100,000 later , Microsoft had bought the rights to QDOS , renamed it MS-DOS — Microsoft Disk Operating System , no frivolous acronyms for Big Blue , please — and licensed it to IBM .
2 Sun claims to have developed 80% of Unix System Labs Inc 's Unix SVR4 operating system , and SunSoft is disappointed that its former technology partner had chosen to go into competition against Solaris .
3 Rannoch is woven with a newly developed 80% Wool 20% Polypropylene yarn using an inspiring range of heathers and solid colours .
4 Religious leaders have developed ideologies of natural law and the common good to reinforce the Roman catholic element .
5 Family counselling , or family therapy , began in the USA in the 1950s , underwent enormous expansion during the 1960s and is now a well developed technique with a sizeable literature devoted to it .
6 Within 12 hours of starting the intravenous amiodarone the liver function tests were noticeably abnormal and hge had developed signs of hepatic encephalopathy ( grade 1 ) .
7 It had developed contingency plans before the incident and put them into effect when water in the mine began to overflow .
8 Compounds can pose problems for automatic text processing systems since many compounds of words are idiomatic and have developed meanings and grammatical properties different from the combinations of the individual words .
9 Indeed , neither bird species seems to have developed echolocation to such a pitch of sophistication as bats have .
10 On the other hand , any artist who has been at the game long enough will have developed preferences for certain kinds of subject matter , for example Degas ' dancing girls , Céanne 's mountain , or Connard 's bathroom .
11 For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides .
12 And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides .
13 But the biggest drawback is that there are very few places left in the world where the malaria parasites ( species of Plasmodium ) have not developed resistance to them .
14 Some have developed leukaemia , others feel so tired that they can only attend school for three hours a day .
15 And its Sixcom subsidiary , in conjunction with the European Telecommunication Standard Institute and Italian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications , has developed Net-cubed , the first wireless network system to support the European Cordless standard .
16 One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit .
17 However , the courts have developed rules for resolving the conflict which strike a reasonable balance between the interests of employee and employer alike .
18 They should perhaps look to take a more active role in initiating advocacy projects by funding development work with local users and with agencies such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureau which have developed expertise in this area .
19 RIGHT Though very lovable , the flat-nosed breeds , through selective breeding , have developed breathing difficulties .
20 As an adult , adults such as myself have n't been through the procedure as a young person where your immune system 's been challenged by the vaccine so that you 've developed tetanus antibodies .
21 The Japanese male seems to think that women have only recently developed skills and abilities they never had before .
22 A Careers Officer would have developed skills in counselling pupils and have a broad knowledge of local industry .
23 And I think the S and T thing is , is erm it 's very good to have developed skills in those areas .
24 Coordination at its highest , when we develop it , we say we 've developed skills , and if you 've done that can you see you acquired skills in quite a lot of situations , and again that 's an area where you 'll get a great deal of satisfaction .
25 But beyond these , actuaries have developed skills in all kinds of other areas such as : —
26 We are conscious of the issue and we have developed policies which address it head-on .
27 He knows , however , that the party had developed plans for converting war industry to peaceful production .
28 Lancashire has developed plans to open several stations which BR can not resource but which would exceed 8 per cent return on capital .
29 The whole emphasis on family care has developed building on a somewhat distorted view of past patterns of family life .
30 Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ?
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