Example sentences of "it has [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
| 2 | Although it is hampered by a lack of trained community nurses , it has undertaken a process of community diagnosis to determine local health problems and conducts numerous preventive and health education activities , including cervical cytology programmes , visits to schools , group work with mothers , and the training of health agents . |
| 3 | By its control of entry into the profession , it has maintained a shortage of doctors and so ensured high rewards for medical services . |
| 4 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 5 | ‘ The phone 's been out of order all week , and the man who came to mend it has broken a lamp I was very fond of . ’ |
| 6 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 7 | Terms were not disclosed , although the tabloid did say that it has received a capital injection from Duna , which will be used for investment purposes . |
| 8 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 9 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
| 10 | BHH Group , the property company , sprang to life after announcing it has received a bid approach . |
| 11 | Zenith Electronics Corp , Glenview , Illinois reports that it has received a commitment from two major institutional lenders for a new $90m revolving credit agreement that is good until December 31 next year . |
| 12 | In the past it has expressed an interest in taking on Cypress ' SuperSparc-compatible part ( UX No 408 ) . |
| 13 | Not to say DEC is going whole hog for Microsoft , but it has cut a master license agreement to give Microsoft University courses and sell video products at its 145 training centres around the world . |
| 14 | It has presented a picture of a large number of upper-middle-class families drawing their substantial incomes from industry whilst moving in a milieu which extolled and practised the alleged virtues of the English gentleman . |
| 15 | Since the late-1980s , however , it has faced a state of crisis characterised by overcapacity , poor returns and serious financial problems in the trawling sector . |
| 16 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 17 | Windata Inc announced on Friday that it has formed a subsidiary in Israel , which will develop software for management of local and wireless communication systems : the availability of many experts in telcommunications and wireless communication in Israel make the country an ideal place for such research and development according to Greg Hopkins , Windata 's chief executive ; Israel 's privileged relationship with the European Community will provide more flexibility to the subsidiary in the firm 's efforts to penetrate European markets . |
| 18 | Britain has already announced it has extended a £25m ‘ know-how ’ fund to Poland to help it cope with reform . |
| 19 | But now a paper in The Lancet ( 341 , 889 ; 1993 appears to some to have thrown a spanner in the works : certainly it has caused a furore of misinterpretation by newspapers and others . |
| 20 | Parsippany , New Jersey-based Unix International Inc says it has completed a specification that will enable software developers to create debugging tools that can analyse any Unix application . |
| 21 | Sutton Water Company has pointed out that it has imposed a sprinkler ban , not a hosepipe ban as stated in Tuesday 's paper . |
| 22 | It has conducted an assessment of the various statistical packages for the manipulation and analysis of large-scale hierarchical data sets and has applied some of this work to the dissemination of very large , government-generated data sets ( see below ) . |
| 23 | As has been mentioned , this system of sales solicitation is used very rarely for end customers and only sparingly in industrial markets , but in North America it has reached a position where there are many complaints about such telephone calls being classed as an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ . |
| 24 | It has reached a point where some of the guiding agencies report that clients will not go up a hill unless it is in a category . |
| 25 | Although it has announced an intention to provide DCE-conformance with the Windows Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) , it is not implementing all of DCE 's functionality , only the RPC . |
| 26 | It has created a world of mobility : of rapid and constant change , with attention focused mainly on novelty or utility — a world eager to break free from tradition which has become irrelevant to a restless , fast-moving age . |
| 27 | But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth . |
| 28 | Within a few days , it has created a shaft so deep that it is out of sight and beyond attack . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it has created a community of space technocrats , with sufficient of a scientific and engineering background , to be at ease in both the military and civilian space administrations . |
| 30 | I too will treat this group of writers as ‘ structuralists ’ and look at some aspects of their work to show how it has created an object for analysis that is relevant to the empirical tasks of the sociology of knowledge . |