Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since the 1970s competitive pressures , particularly from Japan , have been building up and like so many other American and European companies , Kodak has adopted Total Quality Management [ TQM ] processes which the Japanese themselves used to achieve their success . |
| 32 | The SeHCAT test has made intestinal bile acid malabsorption much more easy to detect . |
| 33 | Is the Minister aware that the recent fall in British Steel profits has made British Steel look again at capital expenditure and ways of economising without damaging future profitability ? |
| 34 | In secondary and primary education the government has imposed central pay bargaining on the school teacher unions , a contract of service and appraisals of performance on teachers , and a core curriculum . |
| 35 | One of the very earliest of these schemes , which has shown exceptional survival value because of its adoption by orthodox Marxists , was the postulate that " matrilineal societies " form a class distinct from " patrilineal societies " and that , in the world scale history of social evolution , the former have always preceded the latter . |
| 36 | Bendinat Estate Management has shown considerable business acumen by offering a range of optional management services to owners , including regular inspections of the property , accounts paid , routine maintenance , maid service , laundry and even secretarial facilities . |
| 37 | Apple Computer Inc has persuaded Brazilian computer manufacturer Dismac Industrial SA , Sao Paulo to hand over the Apple brand name , which it registered in 1979 : Apple says ‘ We reached a friendly agreement under which the Dismac Group will grant , with no cost incurred for Apple Computer , its registered Apple brand name ; we are pleased with this gesture — Brazil is a promising market and Apple is interested in fixing its image ’ there . |
| 38 | The joint effort has produced remote control fuel-rod exchangers and automatic inspection systems for radioactive welded pipes . |
| 39 | Baxters of Speyside has produced Green Cuisine Recipe Cards . |
| 40 | Bowlby believes that we have an instinctive ( inherited ) need to maintain proximity to attachment figures , because this has had evolutionary survival value . |
| 41 | Only 27pc judge Mrs Bottomley , who has had widespread TV exposure over NHS issues , to be sincere . |
| 42 | As a consequence , Ingolstadt has used selective street closure around the principal street , which is pedestrianised ( Figure 6.43 ) and that crossing it , which is closed to all bar buses and taxis . |
| 43 | Anderson ( 1977 ) has used systematic point sampling from the Ministry of Agriculture 's Land Classification maps ( see the last section of the chapter for a commentary ) to produce land use estimates very similar to Best 's as shown in Table 8.2 , and in the uplands , Parry et al . |
| 44 | Others , like Scott Skinner , have extended the artform of applique to convey bird pictures , while Tom Casselman has used commercial sign painting techniques to produce superbly intricate pictorial decoration on his Rokkaku kites . |
| 45 | He has got great bone structure and a really cool Addams Family wardrobe and he has written a novel , let's be fair . |
| 46 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 47 | Clearly a pertinent factor in the determination of the free consent issue , is whether one party has exercised superior bargaining strength to impose terms on the other . |
| 48 | A two-control version ( the FAA type certificate still describes rudder pedals as an ‘ optional extra ’ ) it has enabled one-time helicopter pilot Dick Nesbitt-Dufort , after a car accident some years ago left him permanently on crutches , to become a well-known and successful handicap air racing competitor and enthusiastic visitor to many foreign fly-ins . |
| 49 | Not only that , if we accept that there has been a divorce between ownership and control in the typical large company , then management has escaped effective shareholder supervision and hence possesses a broad discretion as to the ends for which the company 's power shall be used . |
| 50 | This consideration has underpinned national forestry policy until now . |
| 51 | Thirteen years , between the 1971 Census and the 1984 image used , is a long time and has encompassed considerable population change in both magnitude and distribution . |
| 52 | A preliminary study has compared social work response and service delivery across organizational types , with the objective of seeing in what ways these differed , and whether any differences could plausibly be related to the factors ( for example of knowledge and skill ) said to distinguish in broad terms the organizational types . |
| 53 | Increased widths of annular rings of some trees , global CO 2 models , calculations of carbon accumulation in temperate forests , and the increased amplitude of the annual cycle of atmospheric [ CO 2 ] in recent decades , all suggest that rising [ CO 2 ] has stimulated biospheric carbon fixation . |
| 54 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 55 | The group is focussing on cutting costs across its business , and has introduced new manufacturing technology to increase capacity and so reduce the need for subcontractors . |
| 56 | Inglewood , California-based Locus Computing Corp , has introduced Transparent Network Computing environment , TNC , the latest incarnation of its transport-independent distributed systems architecture ( UX No 271 ) , which will be competing for space with similar technologies from NobleNet Inc and Covia Technologies Inc ( UX No 395 ) . |
| 57 | So the strike , which has reduced total coal output by less than a third , will reduce all energy supplies by only 6% . |
| 58 | The North administration has reduced personal income tax to virtually nothing , while raising finance through hefty duties on imported items — as you know , a cup of real Nicaraguan coffee now costs $150 — and such daring schemes as the leasing-out of America 's armed forces to Canada during the Quebecois uprising . |
| 59 | CORONATION Street busybody Percy Sugden has found real fan worship in Thailand where viewers think he 's a god . |
| 60 | This is an indication of how far government policy has undermined local planning authority priorities on the ground . |