Example sentences of "has been [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel also notes that Cyrix Corp , Richardson , Texas , has been denied its request for a preliminary injunction on Intel 's patent 4,972,338 . |
| 2 | AN ATHLETICS coach who struck up a friendship with a teacher from a remote Russian region 19 years ago has been appointed its cultural and economic envoy to the West . |
| 3 | Since June 1991 , it can be said that the UK stock market has been fulfilling its predictive . |
| 4 | Lloyd 's has been under-utilising its financial resources for some time . |
| 5 | Two things happened , however , to divert trade unionism from the adoption of that role and to lead it instead into what has been called its revolutionary period , one which for a time made the ownership and control of industries by the people who worked in them its main objective , which sought in short to displace the organisation of industry on the capitalist model by an industrial co-operative commonwealth . |
| 6 | Actually , Apple has been converting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , for the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under a project that it calls Cat in the Hat ( CI No 2,090 ) . |
| 7 | The oddity of the British achievement has been to turn its sense of social conformity into an international commodity . |
| 8 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 9 | A trap that has been expanding its grip steadily since the end of the Eighties . |
| 10 | While Tenon Intersystems Inc of Santa Barbara , California , has been shipping its MachTen implementation of Carnegie Mellon 's Mach operating system for the Macintosh for a year or so now ( UX No 341 , 393 ) , a separate effort at the University itself is now complete and ready to go . |
| 11 | The company already applies its US parent 's ‘ Earthsense ’ creed which has been spreading its ‘ reduce , re-use and recycle ’ message for several years ( thousands of US freshmen are not given an Earthsense re-usable beaker at the beginning of their college careers in the hope of steering them away from disposables ) . |
| 12 | This is where information skills instruction has been given its opportunity . |
| 13 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |
| 14 | Labour has been outlining its policy on the economy at the Party Conference in Blackpool . |
| 15 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 16 | It seems clear that the USSR , like many developing countries , has been revising its opinion about the nature of what bargaining with firms entails . |
| 17 | Actually , Apple has been porting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , over to the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under the code name Cat in the Hat ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 18 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 19 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 20 | Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years . |
| 21 | Although Siemens is a licensee of the MIS Technologies Inc R-series RISC family , with the right to fabricate it , Siemens Nixdorf has been diminishing its importance in its product line , making major Japanese MIPS licensee NEC Corp , which is increasingly loosely allied with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , a long shot . |
| 22 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 23 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 24 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 25 | Littlewoods , meanwhile has been gathering its forces and is poised for a comeback . |
| 26 | Britain , too , has been reshuffling its politicians . |
| 27 | He added that Intel has been encouraging its customers to shift from the 386 to the more powerful and more profitable 486 to counter competition from AMD . |
| 28 | Retail giant Sears , known for what the company itself has described as an ‘ aggressive ’ stance on EDI , has been encouraging its suppliers to adopt EDI at a rate of 200 a month . |
| 29 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 30 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |