Example sentences of "has [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 BSI Quality Assurance , the certification division of the British Standards Institution , has developed a new BSI Kitemark scheme for accounting software , in association with the Institute and KPMG Management Consulting .
2 Retix Inc , Santa Monica , California says it has developed an Open Systems Interconnection-compliant distributed transaction processing communications manager , which enables different transaction processing monitors to communicate and interoperate with each other .
3 Cinncinatti , Ohio-based SCH Inc has formed a Professional Services Division which will focus on helping users move from proprietary to Unix-based software solutions .
4 Detectives say a hundred and ninety officers , many of them armed , were involved in Operation Lucy which has smashed a nationwide drugs and guns racket .
5 The National Economic Development Office has organised a specialised organics seminar , Chemistry for a better environment — environmental challenges and opportunities in the specialised organics sector , on 17 March 1992 in Manchester .
6 Growth-hungry pubs and hotels group Greenalls has wrestled a tiny profits improvement out of a difficult year .
7 Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed .
8 Meanwhile , the Scottish Ladies ' Golfing Association has named a 12-strong girls ' squad for Sunday 's training match against Helensburgh boys .
9 The Agency has produced a new leaders ' guide for people organising outings of up to five miles with family or friends .
10 San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise .
11 For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending .
12 It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months .
13 Fujitsu Ltd has opened an Open Systems Integration Centre in its Systems Laboratories in Kamata on the outskirts of Tokyo .
14 ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland .
15 A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has got a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’
16 PRINCE Michael of Kent has got a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence — so that he can drive a horse transporter to hunts for his wife .
17 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers .
18 In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports .
19 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) .
20 The district councils group , which has employed a public relations company to press its case against replacing the districts with one or two large single-tier Highland authorities , also showed Mr Lang a video promoting their view .
21 He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world .
22 Meanwhile , AT&T said it has introduced a flexible benefits programme to help control health-care costs .
23 Lyotard similarly has proposed a de-differentiated semiotics .
24 Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses .
25 These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form .
26 Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd .
27 At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend .
28 Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ?
29 The UK , despite opposition from Argentina , is in de facto control of the Falkland Islands , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands , and has established an effective fisheries management programme for Falkland Islands waters .
30 PEUGEOT has launched a new parts initiative unique among car manufacturers .
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