Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 2 | Dancing on the podiums at the Milk Bar 's Friday night club Glam has become a hazardous business , due to the frenzied swaying of the Essex Girls that now monopolise them . |
| 3 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 4 | The 88open Consortium Ltd has released a compatibilty test suite for applications — in binary and object forms — running under Unix SVR4 on the Motorola Inc 88000 RISC . |
| 5 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 6 | In past interviews the Princess Royal has displayed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for pregnancy , describing it as a very boring nine months . |
| 7 | When told that Amnesty International had made a radical new departure in the choice of his successor , a decision that it was hoped would be regarded as courageous , Ian 's response was to nod . |
| 8 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Arch Communications Group Inc has acquired a privately-owned paging company in New Hampshire for an undisclosed amount of cash , adding over 2,000 subscribers to its base . |
| 9 | Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize . |
| 10 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc has announced a global technology transfer agreement with Jtec Pty Ltd from somewhere Down Under , through which it will incorporate the latter 's ISDN terminal adaptor technology into the hot new Retix RISC-based RouterXchange 7000 multiprotocol router . |
| 11 | Irvine , California-based , State Of The Art Inc has introduced a new accounting graphical user interface , Momentum . |
| 12 | Southwestern Bell Corp and the Panasonic unit of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd have developed a new personal communication service but we all have to wait until next Tuesday or Wednesday to find out what the service will be . |
| 13 | Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year . |
| 14 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc has had a good look at Unix System Lab 's Destiny desktop — it is a beta site — but is n't worried by the competition , ‘ after looking at it closely , we 've no problem with Open Desktop , ’ it says . |
| 15 | ‘ BP Oil International has operated a total loss control recording system since 1989 . |
| 16 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 17 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |
| 18 | From it I learn that a seven year old has achieved a satisfactory standard if he can tell the time accurately in units of five minutes ! ) . |
| 19 | Spooked by Oracle Corp 's previews of its new Oracle7 ( UX No 390 ) , Menlo Park , California-based Informix Software Inc has launched a new tool kit designed to enable developers to write distributed transaction processing applications that use transaction managers on Unix systems using Informix 's 4GL family of tools . |
| 20 | Tandem Computer Inc has opened a new subsidiary in Budapest , increasing the company 's presence in Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | In the US , Apple Computer Inc has effected a new Unix value added reseller campaign , Quick Start , with the aim of broadening the market for its Quadra AUX 3.0 servers by getting new applications on board . |
| 22 | Studies to be discussed in Section 8.3 have found a positive relationship between volatility and volume , and the ‘ causality ’ studies discussed in Section 8.4 do not rule out the possibility that , on some occasions , changes in volume ‘ cause ’ changes in volatility . |
| 23 | And marvel ( if Channel 4 has secured a good print ) at nephew Claude Renoir 's colour photography — assertively scarlet and cobalt for the players , decoratively pastel for the court . |
| 24 | Kew-based Microft Technology Ltd has released a low cost version of its fast text retrieval system , Wordbase . |
| 25 | A makeshift stage had been erected at the staircase end and , above it , Class 1 had hung a large , hand-painted Islamic crescent moon and star . |