Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endometriosis is a fascinating example of how a new diagnostic technique has transformed the understanding of a disease . |
| 2 | How much the retailer has paid the supplier during that month |
| 3 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've entered every year for the past 15 years and my bike has covered the distance every time — with a few minor running repairs sometimes . |
| 5 | Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities . |
| 6 | Technological change in agriculture has increased the importance of obtaining the loyalty of the farm worker rather than relying upon a disciplined and authoritarian regime . |
| 7 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 8 | Taking a bizarre leaf out of the Grand Old Duke of York manual of management , Digital Equipment Corp has disbanded the engineering group it created only in February , giving rise to perceptions that the company is in a deeper crisis than observers had previously realised . |
| 9 | In assessing Windows NT , Unisys Corp has decided the heart of its future direction lies with Unix , its choice for creating open systems solutions . |
| 10 | Now Milpitas , California-based LSI Logic Corp has licensed the technology to do a CMOS implementation of the bus . |
| 11 | Rochester Telephone Corp has completed the sale of Statesboro Cellular Inc in Statesboro , Georgia to AllTel Corp on undisclosed terms . |
| 12 | Intergraph Corp has wielded the axe half a dozen times since last August : 100 employees were laid off a couple of weeks ago — the company reported a $12.5m first quarter loss on revenues of $282m and has 7,000 staff worldwide . |
| 13 | Oracle Corp has introduced the Developer 's Release of its forthcoming Trusted Oracle Version 1.0 , high security database : it is initially available under Digital Equipment Corp 's Secure VMS and Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP-UX BLS . |
| 14 | IBM Corp has sold the marketing rights for its CICS PD/MVS problem determination tool , for an undisclosed sum , back to Compuware Corp , the company that originally developed the system in 1989 . |
| 15 | Sunnyvale , California-based massively parallel systems builder MasPar Computer Corp has put the Prism video compression software from Prism Interactive Corp , Wheaton , Illinois up on its machines , and claims that the combination is the first system capable of producing broadcast quality Motion Picture Experts Group-compatible video output in real time . |
| 16 | Thanks to retired employee , Link has discovered the car 's present whereabouts and brings you the story behind its restoration . |
| 17 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 18 | Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter . |
| 19 | The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base . |
| 20 | I do not want to delay progress , but someone must say that he is not entirely happy about the way in which British Rail has promoted the Bill and about the contents of some of the clauses . |
| 21 | Remains are scanty and conjecture has to take the place of evidence . |
| 22 | So the greater the risk that another male has inseminated the female , the more trouble a male takes to get her to eject the sperm . |
| 23 | This is not easy , however , because the male has to build the nest and guard his partner at the same time . |
| 24 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 25 | In recent years the provision of housing for people who need a degree of care and support has blurred the division between housing and residential care . |
| 26 | External information provision has seen the advent of end-user searching of external hosts . |
| 27 | As I said earlier , our community watch has demonstrated the double-whamming of service cuts and job losses . |
| 28 | Whatever the fate of the Picassos , there can be no doubt that the Minister 's decision has altered the character of Dutch museums fundamentally . |
| 29 | Where there is a non-pecuniary interest it is not necessary to establish actual bias but it is necessary to show that the decision has given the appearance of bias . |
| 30 | A recent High Court decision has considered the liability of auditors who were at fault in failing to qualify their report on a company 's accounts . |