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

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1 Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes .
2 Within prolonged breeding species , individual frogs or toads have developed a variety of different reproductive strategies .
3 Animals also need to cope with the severity of winter , and they have developed a variety of ways of doing this .
4 Voluntary organizations , notably local branches of MIND , and others specially created for the purpose , such as the Peter Bedford Trust , have developed a variety of sheltered work schemes .
5 However , just as the fourteenth-century English mystics present a variety of responses to a core of dogmatically formulated belief , the tradition they inherited developed a variety of particular views on the nature of mystical experience in relation to Christian orthodoxy .
6 Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years .
7 Tainsh ( 1985 ) has developed a technique in which a computer-based simulation of a generic information handling task is used to assist in analysing the behaviour of an operator or a team of operators .
8 He says his company , Promecologia , based in Yekaterinburg , has developed a technique to synthesise 100kg of red mercury a day .
9 As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase .
10 The American auctioneer 's style differs slightly from that of his London counterpart — there is a greater element of showmanship — and it is interesting that most of the transplanted English auctioneers have developed a technique that combines elements of both styles .
11 At Nottingham we have developed a technique for measuring reflux of radiolabelled food into the oesophagus in ambulant subjects using a highly collimated cadmium telluride gamma detector , which is worn in a harness over the oesophagus .
12 A company in South Australia , Rib Loc , has developed a technique for turning plastic bottles into pipes .
13 I had developed a visualization to go with this mood .
14 SCIENTISTS have developed a vaccine against types of pneumonia , meningitis and blood poisoning which claim thousands of lives in Britain a year and 10 million lives worldwide .
15 And in the process she has developed a character who is a real Valentine card .
16 Having cut his teeth at Disney Studios , Lasseter has developed a reputation with a series of shorts over the past five years which have brought together the very best aspects of hand and computer animation , creating something quite special in the process .
17 STRABANE-based Adria , the province 's leading hosiery manufacturer has developed a reputation for pushing beyond the traditional boundaries in the hosiery industry .
18 They 've developed a reputation as one of the world 's leading ship builders .
19 ‘ In the environmental field especially , opencast mining companies have developed a reputation for minimum disruption and scrupulous site restoration .
20 It had been operational as Lancaster College of Technology since 1960 , conceived by the local authority in Coventry as a major institution , and had rapidly developed a reputation as such , expanding rapidly , and playing an important part in the committees and boards of the CNAA .
21 SCIENTISTS have developed a test designed to detect the most lethal form of breast cancer in women and enable doctors to provide more effective treatment .
22 the QC lab quickly developed a test so we could begin gathering information in earnest .
23 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 .
24 Similarly , they may use a pseudo- psychological perspective in explaining suicide ( ‘ People commit suicide when they are mentally unbalanced ’ ) , or a moralistic perspective in explaining crime ( ‘ Criminals are people who have not developed a conscience regulating their actions ’ ) .
25 And that , like all natural observers , he has developed a knack of deflecting curiosity about himself .
26 The group as you are aware do have a vision statement , erm which has been published er and it was er developed a couple of years ago er great effort by the er management team .
27 An Egyptian scientist has developed a gel based on petroleum waste which he claims can dramatically improve the productivity of sandy soil .
28 Stockport District Health Authority has developed a locality model of purchasing with extended outposts in localities .
29 One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique .
30 Sergeyev has developed a machine that uses liquid crystals to recover such energy from the surface of these objects .
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