Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] [art] [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 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 3 | When a retailer has placed an order with a manufacturer , he enters it on to a stock record card . |
| 4 | How much the retailer has paid the supplier during that month |
| 5 | The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service . |
| 6 | Recently , another retailer has opened a store in the South of England and uses the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICE " . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Legislation in the field of child protection has emphasized the role of the local authorities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry . |
| 11 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 12 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 13 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 14 | If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Intel Corp has confirmed a report in the San Francisco Chronicle that it will delay introduction of its Pentium microprocessor until May , but denies the paper 's assertion that it is holding the chip back to exploit demand for existing 80486 products . |
| 18 | Milpitas , California-based Read-Rite Corp has formed a product development alliance with Mitsubishi Kasei Co for the development of magnetic heads and disks : the companies will co-operate to develop thin film heads and disks using inductive data detection for data densities of 500M-bits per square inch of disk , and magnetoresistive products , enabling 600Mb to be crammed onto a single 3.5″ platter ; high capacity drives have several platters in the disk-head assembly . |
| 19 | In assessing Windows NT , Unisys Corp has decided the heart of its future direction lies with Unix , its choice for creating open systems solutions . |
| 20 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |
| 21 | Now Milpitas , California-based LSI Logic Corp has licensed the technology to do a CMOS implementation of the bus . |
| 22 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 23 | IBM Corp has made no secret that it believes super-fast communications will be essential to the medium-term success of machines like the RS/6000 , and the company has turned to one of the pioneers , San Jose , California-based Ultra Network Technologies Inc . |
| 24 | Rochester Telephone Corp has completed the sale of Statesboro Cellular Inc in Statesboro , Georgia to AllTel Corp on undisclosed terms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Digital Equipment Corp has packaged a cost-optimised 100 MIPS 10 Watt Alpha chip , some DECelx and OSF/1 real-time software and services to attract OEM customers in the embedded market , and hardware samples are promised for the summer ; the chips will also be used in single-board computers , the company says . |
| 27 | NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers . |
| 28 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 29 | In the US , Oracle Corp has introduced a master application programming interface — middleware in its terminology — to connect software running on heterogeneous clients to disparate servers and databases . |
| 30 | Unisys Corp has introduced a clustering system for its 2200 series mainframes that it describes as a highly parallel processing technology yielding significantly higher levels of system performance for mainframe servers . |