Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] [art] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 2 | Intergraph Corp has landed a $422m share of the US Navy 's $1.5bn CAD-2 programme and is to supply 4,200 workstations and 1,082 servers based on its Clipper RISC . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 6 | For FFr100m ( $17.5m ) , American Express has bought a 2% stake in Club Méditerranée , a French group that ranks third among European tour operators , and runs holiday villages in exotic places . |
| 7 | San Jose , California , Motorola Inc 's Commercial Systems Division has won a $5m deal from Plano , Texas-based Paging Network Inc , the paging services specialist , to install its Unix-based Motorola 68040 systems in 40 of its offices nationwide . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 11 | The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Chorus has signed a $21,000m deal with Alcatel Alsthom SA for use of the Chorus microkernel technology throughout Alcatel 's operations . |
| 13 | WILD West researcher Donald Clerk has put a 30ft totem pole on his lawn at Zelah , Cornwall , to ward off evil spirits . |
| 14 | A POTTERY firm chairman has returned a £236,000 bonus to help his firm beat the recession . |
| 15 | The Japanese Fisheries Association has launched a £36,000 campaign aimed at persuading the US government that driftnets are not as environmentally destructive as reported by its scientists . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Kindly inspect your flannel , Wattling , in case your hidden enemy has concealed a Samurai sword in it … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a $1.2bn aid package for Poland and Hungary to be spread over three years . |
| 20 | A DAIRY has launched a £1.5m campaign to halt a decline in doorstep milk deliveries . |
| 21 | MAN LEAVES CAT AND £43,000 TO CHARITY Sooty the black cat has brought a £43,000 windfall to a charity . |
| 22 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's Russian subsidiary has finalised a $30m contract with the oil enterprise ASUNEFT , Nizniy Vartosk , northern Siberia . |
| 23 | Unisys Corp 's French subsidiary has won a $9.3m order from the Agricultural Bank of Algeria to automate its 250 branches and 36 agencies in competition with Groupe Bull SA and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme . |
| 24 | Sun has taken a 10% stake in Elvis+ , but would not reveal the value of the investment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget . |
| 27 | A judge has ordered a fish farm to compensate a group of anglers for ruining their fishing season . |
| 28 | Reuters Holdings Plc has bought a 51% stake in German software house Euro-FIS GmbH from Inasys GmbH , a Bonn software specialist in portfolio management and securities research applications . |
| 29 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 30 | P-E International Plc has won the £150,000 contract to help the UK Inland Revenue with the implementation of the proposed reforms of personal tax assessment : in the budget , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced an overhaul of the tax return and payment process to make it simpler and fairer and offer the option of self-assessment and the revised system is scheduled to be in place by the 1996-7 tax year . |