Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 2 | The Economic and Social Research Council has established a series of Regional Research Laboratories to promote the wider use of data collected by academic researchers , commercial organisations and government departments . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget . |
| 4 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 5 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THE Somme Association has received a £100 , grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board towards new facilities for visitors to the Ulster Memorial Tower at Thiepval in France . |
| 8 | The Textile industry has undergone a 5% fall in exports compared with 1989 and the Footwear and clothing industry has suffered an even larger decline of 13% in the value of its exports . |
| 9 | The Institute Librarian has negotiated a 15% discount with Executive Grapevine . |
| 10 | LONDON & SOUTH EAST has won a £3.9 million contract to build student accommodation for the University of Hertfordshire . |
| 11 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 12 | WILD West researcher Donald Clerk has put a 30ft totem pole on his lawn at Zelah , Cornwall , to ward off evil spirits . |
| 13 | In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters . |
| 14 | NIRVANA star Kurt Cobain has launched a £20,000 bid to beat a rare sleeping disease after falling asleep … half-way through a concert . |
| 15 | A US federal appeals court has upheld a $155 million award of damages against the Amoco Corporation over the 1978 oil spill from the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in France . |
| 16 | Coventry , UK : Courtaulds Engineering has won a £750,000 contract in connection with a new cellulose flake plant for Courtaulds Chemicals at Spondon . |
| 17 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of ‘ French Fiesta ’ events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 18 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of French Fiesta events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 19 | EUROPE 's video war has taken a series of bizarre new twists as the European Community 's new rules on imports of video recorders from Japan produce results in the market place that nobody predicted . |
| 20 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a $125m contract with Europe 's largest telecommunications carrier , Deutsche Bundespost 's Telekom , Darmstadt , for 1,000 PA RISC Unix workstations , printers and plotters : the German giant will move some applications over from the IBM and Siemens Nixdorf mainframes it uses . |
| 22 | The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a $1.2bn aid package for Poland and Hungary to be spread over three years . |
| 23 | Intervention by the library committee has prevented the sales for the time being but it will be difficult to monitor such activities in the long term . |
| 24 | A MERSEYSIDE couple has launched a £10,000 fund raising campaign as a tribute to their baby son 's short life . |
| 25 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
| 26 | A POTTERY firm chairman has returned a £236,000 bonus to help his firm beat the recession . |
| 27 | AT&T Co has signed a $30m contract with the Yunan Provincial Import and Export Corp to supply cellular network equipment to Yunan Province in China : AT&T will supply Autoplex System 1000 mobile switching equipment , base stations and cellular phones to provide Yunan with province-wide mobile phone service . |
| 28 | The United States Air Force has awarded a $91.6m contract to GTE Government Systems Corporation to supply the Pentagon with IBM Corp RS/6000 workstations running the Informix Software Inc database , Aster*x office automation software as well as automation and networking solutions . |
| 29 | The Scottish Commonwealth Games Council has set a £250,000 target to send a record team of up to 160 to Victoria , Canada , next year . |
| 30 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |