Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duchess has started her own charity aimed at children in need , particularly in Bosnia . |
| 2 | In the run-up to the single European market next year ( if the Maastricht treaty ever gets ratified ) Oracle Corp has restructured its European operations into four divisions . |
| 3 | NCR Corp has enhanced its Top End mainframe-class , open distributed transaction processing system that enables customers to integrate existing mainframe applications with those running on Unix machines . |
| 4 | Compaq Computer Corp has lost its senior vice-president and general manager of the Personal Computer Division , Douglas Johns : president and chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer will assume the posts until a permanent replacement can be found . |
| 5 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp has announced its Mbus-based SparcSet chip set , designed by Nimbus Technologies ( UX No 383 ) , for cloners . |
| 6 | Digital Equipment Corp has found its first partner in France for the Alpha AXP RISC in the shape of a start-up company formed by Jacques Stern , founder of software and systems integration house Sesa SA and former chairman and chief executive of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA . |
| 7 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |
| 9 | Microsoft Corp has launched its largest reseller promotional campaign yet , a $7m 60-day programme dubbed ‘ upgrade your world , ’ which it says will reach at about 28m customers : the promotion will include an ‘ unprecedented ’ purchase of US national print and broadcast advertising and direct mail , offering a no-cost version upgrade to each customer that spends a minimum of $350 on Microsoft software between April 1 and May 31 , and is coupled with promotional sale prices of $570 against the usual $750 on Microsoft Office for Windows and users of Excel , Word or PowerPoint can receive an additional $50 rebate from Microsoft until July 15 ; MS-DOS 6 will be offered at a promotional price until May 31 and the upgrade to Windows 3.1 will also be on sale from now until April 30 . |
| 10 | If your hair has lost its natural gloss because of the chemicals in the colour , try a shine enhancing spray . |
| 11 | As a result of the robbery Blackwells has reissued its standard instructions to shop staff that a minimum amount of money be kept in tills at any time and that if approached there should be ‘ no heroics ’ , the money should be handed over . |
| 12 | Whilst initially not as financially rewarding , the change in direction has brought him increasing recognition . |
| 13 | But they know they are struggling for both Wimbledon stars and now Ferguson has become their top target . |
| 14 | With another ‘ difficult ’ year expected , Sindall has passed its final dividend . |
| 15 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
| 16 | Therefore a passenger jumping off a moving bus and injuring himself would bring the motor vehicle within this section , but not generally where a driver has left his stationary motor vehicle parked on a road . |
| 17 | The general pattern seems to be , however , that ‘ second wave ’ change has achieved its first objective — the implementation of new structures — but has largely failed to achieve the ‘ cultural ’ sea-change : the involvement of clinicians and a new approach to consumers . |
| 18 | FILM director Michael Winner has lent his photographic talent to help Sir John Gielgud publish the third volume of his autobiography . |
| 19 | Many punters will convince themselves that College Chapel will reverse the form over Haydock 's extra furlong , but Vincent O'Brien 's Royal Ascot winner has shown his best form on a soft surface and , barring an unexpected downpour , will not encounter those conditions here . |
| 20 | JOE MONTANA has taken his first steps towards an NFL comeback — by imitating Randall Cunningham . |
| 21 | Because Kenamun has lost his best man , and I have no faith in his ability to solve this on his own . |
| 22 | Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt . |
| 23 | Mansfield Town Caretaker Manager Bill Bearden has given his whole squad the day off to try to stop the spread of the flu virus . |
| 24 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 25 | WILL CARLING has thrown his immense influence as England captain behind the growing dissatisfaction with rugby 's controversial new ruck and maul law . |
| 26 | Fidelity Investments has cut its initial charges on five bond funds from 5.25% to 3.5% . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that Moscow has pronounced its strong support for a nuclear-free Southeast Asia . |
| 28 | JUST AS the calculator has produced its own brand of innumeracy , so the word-processor is generating its own style of illiteracy . |
| 29 | Committing to offer Microsoft Corp 's NT on Precision Architecture RISC by 1995 , Samsung Electronics Co has launched its first workstation built around the RISC , which it makes under licence from Hewlett-Packard Co — six months later than originally planned . |
| 30 | However , this statement precedes the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , since when the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament has developed its modern meaning . |