Example sentences of "have [vb pp] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The picture of cattle stealing which has been built up thus far has emphasized its institutional nature . |
2 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
3 | The group has revised its own specification to require most of the recommended items to be incorporated in any new vehicles that are purchased . |
4 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has received its first order from South Africa : the South African Weather Bureau in Pretoria wants a Cray Y-MP2E supercomputer . |
5 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
6 | A Bill , which would allow companies to charge interest on commercial debts that remain unsettled after 30 days , has received its second Reading . |
7 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
8 | There she suspends herself by her feet and takes a well-earned rest , having done her best to ensure that her single babe , in spite of everything , has received its proper milk-ration . |
9 | However , this statement precedes the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , since when the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament has developed its modern meaning . |
10 | Manchester design company Lord & Bowes has developed its new look , including an editorial column and news roundup , and we intend continuing with our lengthier informative features . |
11 | For the mass market the firm has developed its Personal Security Vehicle , or PSV-2 — the ‘ Armor lite ’ of the motoring world . |
12 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
13 | Marshall Beaven , a Dorset firm of registered auditors , has developed its own audit and accounts production program , MAAP , to run with the accounts production package SSAP II . |
14 | It has developed its own operating systems ( the basic software on which the firm 's machines run ) and its own international marketing organisation , with an emphasis on personal computers . |
15 | 7.3 What is required is a purpose designed method of reporting incidents of violence and the Department has developed its own report form . |
16 | Enterprise Training has developed its own Quality Assurance Policy which includes a commitment to the ‘ Investors In People ’ programme . |
17 | And top manufacturer Siemens has developed its latest range of quality washing machines with both energy and money saving features very much in mind . |
18 | Unisoft Inc , the London and New York-based Unix house that has been quietly transforming itself into a system integrator and bespoke application developer has broken its near silence of the last couple of years and come out with what it calls a ‘ highly portable ’ version of Unix V.4 — UniPlus+ SVR4/MIPS . |
19 | Historically , brewing has justified its recession-proof rating , perhaps because in good times or bad , people still keep on drinking . |
20 | Until 1967 , all beef breeds in Scandinavia were registered by the Nordic Association of Beefbreeders but since that year Denmark has registered its own beef animals . |
21 | Thus , on the eve of the second British Reform Act of 1867 , James Bryce noted that " the social progress of democracy has outrun its political progress " , which was ominous because " there is nothing more dangerous than a democratic society without democratic institutions " . |
22 | The British Library has reinstated its Japanese information service . |
23 | Indeed we want to examine the ways in which a concept which appears to be logically fraudulent , the inner city , has sustained its central position in both popular and academic discussion of the urban . |
24 | The Zimbabwean government has sustained its high level of educational spending in the face of a growing debt burden , the economic burden of the war in Mozambique and the cost of trade routes through South Africa . |
25 | As a member of a police authority , I welcome the fact the Government has withdrawn its earlier ill-judged proposal , that authority Chairman should be appointed by Home Sec by the Home Secretary and that the size of authority should be standardised but the other main thrust of the Government 's proposal remains , namely the balance and composition of authorities and these points are of the gravest constitutional importance . |
26 | A few Contracting States have indicated their objection ( Czechoslovakia , Egypt , Germany , Norway and Turkey ; Luxembourg has withdrawn its original objection ) . |
27 | DIOXIN , the chemical that polluted Seveso in Italy , has reared its ugly head again . |
28 | And , ever since Bob Geldof , then a mere singer and nota saint , invented the celebrity charity circuit with Band Aid at Christmas 1984 , and Live Aid the year after the subject of self-promotion has reared its ugly head . |
29 | It has placed its diplomatic future in the hands of one outside power , and this may eventually prove more dangerous than adopting a less aggressive policy towards its neighbours . |
30 | A CHARITABLE company set up to help homeless and needy people has given its own helpers a vote of thanks . |