Example sentences of "a [noun] to build a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Motors Corp 's Hughes Network Systems Inc has a contract to build a digital network for fixed telephone and cellular phones in Chengdu , the capital Sichuan Province in the People 's Republic of China : the initial contract , which is worth $15m , will serve more than 20,000 subscribers and expansions of the network will eventually serve 100,000 subscribers ; the entire Chengdu network is set to go on line in November ; Hughes is also building a similar network in Tatarstan , in the Russian Republic . |
| 2 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 3 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 4 | The Pacific Bell telephone company led a consortium to build a downtown factory and make $1m-worth of purchases from it annually . |
| 5 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |