Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [n mass] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively the table values can be found experimentally and , as an aid to this potentially laborious process , Lafreniere ( 1979 ) has developed a microprocessor.based interactive system , which calculates the complete look-up table from a limited number of velocity profile parameters , such as maximum stepping rate , acceleration/deceleration rate . |
| 2 | P-E International Plc has reported a £48,000 net loss for the year to December 31 , struck after £524,000 extraordinary costs associated with the sale of its Applied Skills for Management Ltd subsidiary , on turnover up 3.4% to £71.1m . |
| 3 | A STUDENT has won a £500 human resources prize from Courtaulds for his work on recruitment techniques and reviewing performance . |
| 4 | The Cheltenham & Gloucester has produced a £50m fixed rate loan priced at 13.25 until the end of 1991 . |
| 5 | CIA International has negotiated a $1m pan-European advertising deal with National Magazines ' Cosmopolitan . |
| 6 | Measurex Corp , computer-integrated test and measurement systems specialist living in Cupertino , California reports that it has signed a $20m fixed-rate loan with The Bank of New York . |
| 7 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has signed a $20m multi-year OEM agreement with 3Com Corp , San Jose , California under which it will resell 3Com 's network adaptors , chassis-based and stackable hubs , terminal servers , bridges and routers . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 9 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , an Edinburgh University student , was said to have used a £200 micro computer at his home in Ilkley , West Yorkshire , to dial up the Financial Times network and introduce a rogue programme to the high-technology system , Southwark Crown Court was told . |
| 10 | One of the Norwegian girls , Riborg , was the daughter of a ship owner , but had attended a folk high school , along with children whose parents were cobblers and other manual labourers . |
| 11 | In France and Spain , for instance , several secondary issues in the past two years have included a 25% international tranche sold through book-building . |
| 12 | Thieves have stolen a £70 free standing stone ornament from a garden at a house in Brompton Road , Northallerton . |
| 13 | The Cray Communications Ltd arm of Cray Electronics Holdings Plc , and its Cray Communications Inc arm in Annapolis , Maryland have signed a $10m three-year OEM agreement with Coral Network Corp , Westborough , Massachusetts under which Cray will resell the Coral Backbone Xpress 1000 and 2000 fault-tolerant internetworking systems for collapsed , campus and corporate backbone applications through its worldwide distribution channels under Cray 's own brand name starting on June 1 ; privately-held Coral and Cray will also conduct joint development on the BX architecture to provide additional functionality , such as the addition of wide area network interfaces and support for speech ; the Backbone Xpress Series supports Ethernet , Token Ring , FDDI , T1 , E1 and V35 network interfaces ; and TCP/IP , Novell Inc IPX , AppleTalk II , DECnet IV , RIP , OSPF , EGP , BGP , Frame Relay and PPP protocols , and is also designed to support future high-bandwidth network interfaces , such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode . |