Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] [art] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intergraph Corp has wielded the axe half a dozen times since last August : 100 employees were laid off a couple of weeks ago — the company reported a $12.5m first quarter loss on revenues of $282m and has 7,000 staff worldwide . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp has packaged a cost-optimised 100 MIPS 10 Watt Alpha chip , some DECelx and OSF/1 real-time software and services to attract OEM customers in the embedded market , and hardware samples are promised for the summer ; the chips will also be used in single-board computers , the company says . |
| 3 | Digital Equipment Corp has previewed the Rdb 6.0 version of its relational database , saying that at $6,643 per tpsA on an Alpha AXP DEC 7000 Model 610 , it is the first production database to go below $7,000 per tpsA ; it ships December . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An international consortium led by the Wigan-based company Carbon Link has acquired the East German Activated Carbon Company from the German Truehandanstalt . |
| 6 | But this plea has worn a bit thin . |
| 7 | The offensive has driven the majority Muslim population out of town and nearly 10,000 are crammed into a village just to the south , according to UN officials . |
| 8 | Simon Howard , Computer Programmer has achieved a Grade One , HNC pass in Computing . |
| 9 | Helpfully , the council added that : ‘ It should be pointed out that this action would be taken against all allotment holders , whether or not any individual holder has had a bonfire prior to the service of a notice . |
| 10 | THE recession has blown the kilt clean off the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 11 | The prolonged UK recession has reduced the numbers able to contemplate buying a home overseas ; indeed , some of those with properties in Europe are now trying to sell , to reduce their borrowings . |
| 12 | Yeah mum has got a towel dirty . |
| 13 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 14 | Galvanised by the success of the World Cup and the Hong Kong Sevens tournaments , the International Board has initiated a World Sevens tournament . |
| 15 | Gary ‘ Wash and Go ’ Speed has had a Roy Keane-ish haircut |
| 16 | The Irish Bank Officials ' Association has had a claim outstanding since then and it has now reached the stage of the Labour Court . |
| 17 | The association has offered the MP free cab rides for the rest of his stay in the resort . |
| 18 | The election result has given the Conservatives five years in which to press ahead with the changes . |
| 19 | These have grown as the department has increased the money available and introduced more support schemes . |
| 20 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 21 | The film industry has made the shark one of the most feared and familiar of all fish . |
| 22 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 23 | Pyramid has supplied a MIServer 2S running Data Centre OSx , Pyramid 's version of Unix SVR4 , along with Oracle and Ingres database software . |
| 24 | The Committee has left the matter open in the hope that a satisfactory formula can be constructed . |
| 25 | Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be . |
| 26 | San Jose-based 3Com Corp 's new Star-Tek subsidiary has announced the LinkBuilder TR series , the company 's first stackable Token Ring hubs : with a fixed configuration of 16 ports per hub , users can add up to 15 additional expansion units for a maximum configuration of 256 managed user ports ; the hubs can be used with unshielded and shielded twisted pair cabling , and support both 4Mbps and 16Mbps Token Ring ; the basic model costs £2,250 ; the LinkBuilder TRi model 1 , which includes a basic SNMP agent , is to cost £3,800 , and the Model 2 with a complete SNMP RMON agent is £4,500 . |
| 27 | It is not enough to say that the compiler has inserted a story that once had a quite independent existence . |
| 28 | The exercise has enabled the officials involved in the original decisions to respond to the findings . |
| 29 | In its first declared objective for sending troops , i.e. the protection of Saudi Arabia against possible Iraqi invasion , the USA found legitimacy under Article 51 of the UN Charter which affirmed " the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence , if an armed attack occurs against a member of the organization , until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain peace and international security " . |
| 30 | The science and Engineering Research Council has doubled the money available for ‘ small ’ or mainstream physics to £2 million . |