Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | According to China 's news agency Xinhua , which appears to have good contacts inside Afghanistan , a group of mujaheddin field commanders has rejected the Peshawar government and wants the United Nations to settle the civil war . |
2 | Bristol Industrial & Research Associates has introduced the LiquiTrak non-volatile residue monitor ( NRM ) , which measures residue-after-evaporation levels from 1 to 500 ppb in ultrapure water . |
3 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
4 | Steetley Roofing Products has launched the Ashurst tile , an authentic clay roof tile that creates an instant weathered look . |
5 | The Financial Times has described the Mars bar as ‘ a currency for our time ’ because it contains staple commodities including cocoa , vegetable fats , milk solids and sugar . |
6 | Pressure from animal rights groups has persuaded the US Navy to drop plans to use bottle-nosed dolphins to guard a Trident nuclear submarine base in Washington State . |
7 | For years now John McAfee 's suite of anti-virus utilities has dominated the US anti-virus scene . |
8 | Trying to support growers has reduced the PMB 's support fund from £20 million to under £6 million . |
9 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |
10 | Horses and chariots had helped the Hyksos pharaohs to gain ascendancy in Egypt . |
11 | COUCH POTATO fans have launched an S.E.S … |
12 | But it is also because one or two traders have squeezed the Brent forward market , which sets the price . |
13 | As it says in the Torah : ‘ More than the Jews have kept the Torah , the Torah has kept the Jews . ’ |
14 | The former cattle sheds have become The Steadings Business centre . |
15 | One of their descendants has founded the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies which successfully encouraged the Government , when drafting the Education Reform Act of 1988 , to restore Christian studies as an educational subject . |
16 | Although the Socialist Party controlled only 272 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly , the Communists had supported the Rocard government in the eight previous confidence motions . |
17 | A report in the Guardian of Nov. 7 said that a ban by NATO countries ( which dominated COCOM ) on exporting " secret " high technology to communist countries had cost the UK telecommunications company British Telecom a £4,200,000 ( US$7,100,000 ) order to supply optical fibre equipment for a new telephone link in Vietnam . |
18 | There was only one hopeful prospect : the unrestricted sinking of neutral and unarmed ships by German U-boats had brought the United States of America into the war . |
19 | Reports had indicated that German companies had broken the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq in August 1990 . |
20 | The Khmers Rouges had boycotted the MMWG for three months . |
21 | Once Gosport and the Portsea Lines had fallen the Portsmouth dockyard would become unusable , and — reversing the usual proposed sequence — the invaders would then capture the Isle of Wight . |
22 | But the apple killers have crossed the Atlantic . |
23 | Nine financial organisations from European countries have joined the EC Eurotech Capital Initiative and made Ecu 150m available for investment in small and medium-sized enterprises involved in high technology . |
24 | A number of Arab countries have condemned the UN resolution , which they say displays its double standards in dealing with Arab countries and Israel . |
25 | Over 200 companies have signed the ICC 's Business Charter for Sustainable Development , which urges industry to commit itself to the development of products which require the minimum amount of energy and natural resources to produce , and which can be recycled or disposed of safely after use . |
26 | To date , 857 companies have entered the USM , which reached its climax in 1988 when 103 companies made their debut . |
27 | FORECASTS of the highest tides for decades have prompted an Essex council to distribute flood warning leaflets to people living in low-lying areas . |
28 | ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’ |
29 | He is also a keen footballer and for the past 18 years has run the Johnstone United Boys Club , where Robert Hassan once played as a teenager . |
30 | In 1982 , well-informed observers had believed the CEGB 's scientific propaganda was intended to win breathing space until more nuclear plants came on stream at the end of the century . |