Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] drive " in BNC.
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1 | I own a 1979 Range Rover , chassis number 35857365F , and have been told it is a right hand drive export model . |
2 | ( This should assist , for example , the UK resident wishing to order a right hand drive model from a German dealer . ) |
3 | For example , if there is a single optical disk emulating a normal disk drive ( but write-once only ) , the offline manager may choose to make the optical disk for primary stores and some other large magnetic disk for secondary stores . |
4 | They drove slowly down a narrow asphalt drive between the southern wall of the church and the railing bordering the canal , but still there was no sign of life . |
5 | Yet Switzerland is only 20 miles to the north and a three-hour car drive will take you to any one of five different countries . |
6 | The fact that he had a lower sex drive than she did was n't considered unreasonable behaviour . |
7 | Only a few hours drive from Glasgow to a world of serenity and tranquillity . |
8 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
9 | At the weekends he can be anywhere within a few hours drive doing the job of a ‘ Sapper ’ the army 's word for a Military Engineer . |
10 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
11 | Dunstaffnage House is set in an acre of pretty garden with wonderful views across the open land to the Cairngorms , yet only a few minutes drive from the centre of Grantown . |
12 | Met at airport , change money , three and a half hour drive in the cool morning to Yalikavak . |
13 | Each winding has a separate series forcing resistance of 9 ohms and , with a 30 V drive power supply , the winding current is limited to its rated value of 3 A. Find the winding current time variation at switch-on if the opposite phase winding carries a current of ( a ) zero and ( b ) rated , but winding excitation removed . |
14 | Labour has rejected the idea of a carbon tax and seems to intend to achieve the cut largely through controls on the use of cars and through implementing a public transport drive . |
15 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
16 | Security features include a locking disk drive cover , locking lid and cable clamps . |
17 | It has a floppy disk drive to load programmes , and a megabyte of memory to store them . |
18 | Take the case of a floppy disk drive 's sudden failure to read a disk when previously it had shown no proclivity to such failing . |
19 | Cleaning a floppy disk drive should be part of a regular maintenance procedure . |
20 | The type of heads contamination mentioned above with a floppy disk drive can not occur on a hard disk because it is sealed from external air-borne dust , and the disk is assembled in conditions which are scrupulously clean . |
21 | Fitting a 5.25 inch drive to a 5.25 inch bay is equally easy . |
22 | PRAGUE to Zurich promised to be a better-than-average test drive for a new model . |
23 | It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive . |
24 | It creates a hidden file on your hard disk which fools DOS into thinking it 's a real disk drive . |
25 | Now it may be a six hour drive from the Central Belt and a short one hour Loganair flight from Edinburgh but as you 'll see Katie 's destination is the last word in luxury . |
26 | Incidentally if you have an old RLL or MFM drive it may be a better bet to replace it with a larger IDE drive , they 're usually faster and much more reliable . |
27 | In 1912 the Corporation itself had purchased 30,000 coloured postcards of a circular tour car on a leafy Whitegate Drive ( see p. 61 ) , where the cars were posed facing the wrong direction to catch the sun ( below ) . |
28 | b ) An aluminium disk also coated with metal oxides that forms part of a hard disk drive . |
29 | Notice that if you are transferring a hard disk drive to a new motherboard then you should backup all of the data . |
30 | Your RR was originally produced as a left hand drive and was destined for Europe . |