Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme , whose cost is to be shared by Thames Water and the National Rivers Authority , involves building a 10-mile underground pipe to pump water from chalk pits at Northfleet to the river 's middle reaches when necessary . |
| 2 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 3 | Alternatively the table values can be found experimentally and , as an aid to this potentially laborious process , Lafreniere ( 1979 ) has developed a microprocessor.based interactive system , which calculates the complete look-up table from a limited number of velocity profile parameters , such as maximum stepping rate , acceleration/deceleration rate . |
| 4 | The British Standards Institution ( BSI ) has developed a UK National Standard ( BS 5750 ) for manufacturing quality carpets . |
| 5 | Seiko in Japan has developed an STM capable of accurately placing the needle anywhere on the five-inch wafers of silicon on which microelectronic circuitry is printed before it is diced into chips . |
| 6 | Article 18 imposes an obligation on a State which has signed but not yet ratified a treaty , or which has ratified a convention prior to its entry into force , not to act so as to defeat the objects and purposes of the convention . |
| 7 | Harris Corp , Melbourne , Florida has formed a telecommunications joint venture with Shenzhen Telecom Equipment Co : Shenzhen Harris Telecom Co Ltd to manufacture and sell Harris 's low- and medium-capacity digital microwave radios and will integrate them with other systems . |
| 8 | Then you remember it and it starts to come a bit true does n't it ? |
| 9 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Besides , Sharpe 's caution is justified since Graham Taylor has picked a team full of players itching to be the one whose finger pulls the trigger that will release the World Cup tension of the past few months — and in the process bring much-needed relief to manager Graham Taylor and his backroom team . |
| 11 | P-E International Plc has reported a £48,000 net loss for the year to December 31 , struck after £524,000 extraordinary costs associated with the sale of its Applied Skills for Management Ltd subsidiary , on turnover up 3.4% to £71.1m . |
| 12 | Dr Gary Coles has designed a sensor accurate enough to monitor tiny changes in exhaust gases given off while the vehicle is being driven . |
| 13 | A STUDENT has won a £500 human resources prize from Courtaulds for his work on recruitment techniques and reviewing performance . |
| 14 | To do this , Digiboard has written a NetWare Loadable Module compatible with the Novell 's NetWare Access Server and Application Server application programming interface . |
| 15 | The Afrikaans weekly newspaper , Vrye Weekblad , has named a South African conscript who , it says , was required to do his military service as a spy . |
| 16 | The Afrikaans weekly newspaper , Vrye Weekblad , has named a South African conscript who , it says , was required to do his military service as a spy . |
| 17 | Now , however , it has suffered a fate common to most of Darlington 's fountains , and been relegated to a forgotten corner . |
| 18 | International tourism is now a highly sophisticated and competitive industry and the review needs to create a mechanism capable of producing a co-ordinated overall strategy for the development of tourism in Scotland . |
| 19 | Despite the best efforts of one or two of her hon. Friends , I do not believe that the debate has revealed a party political difference on anything other than the very narrow issue of an advertising ban . |
| 20 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 21 | Tuberculosis , for which no vaccine is available , has shown a decline similar to whooping cough , as has scarlet fever which seemed to ‘ burn itself out ’ . |
| 22 | The Cheltenham & Gloucester has produced a £50m fixed rate loan priced at 13.25 until the end of 1991 . |
| 23 | Scolt Head Island , the most fully developed offshore bar on the Norfolk coast , has had a history comparable with the above idealised conditions . |
| 24 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 25 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 26 | Tavernier , who is a native Lyon , Birmingham 's twin town , has had a life long love affair with cinema . |
| 27 | The Irish Bank Officials ' Association has had a claim outstanding since then and it has now reached the stage of the Labour Court . |
| 28 | Gary ‘ Wash and Go ’ Speed has had a Roy Keane-ish haircut |
| 29 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 30 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |