Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRUDENTIAL has launched a new range of flexible pensions products which can be converted to a free-standing additional voluntary contribution and vice versa , and allow contribution levels to be reduced or even suspended altogether for up to five years . |
| 2 | Here , Dr Dick Hobbs , one of Britain 's foremost criminologists , believes Labour has learnt an important lesson from the Conservatives . |
| 3 | The chromatography company J & W Scientific has introduced an upgraded column with increased sensitivity through lower chemical activity , the DB-5ms , for both GC and GC/MS systems . |
| 4 | Paar Scientific has launched a liquid density standards service for density meter users . |
| 5 | It had to be done , and he had known it would not be popular , but he added : ‘ Anyone who becomes Chancellor in order to be popular has chosen the wrong job . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ! ) . |
| 7 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 8 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 9 | Photech Engineering Ltd. has produced an underwater housing system for format cameras which allows the user to start with a basic housing system and build on it , take full advantage of their camera system and even to change camera systems altogether at a relatively small cost . |
| 10 | If fear of nonconformity and the unusual has driven the cultural evolution of incest taboos , then a comparable argument should apply to taboos on marriages with strangers or members of other castes and races . |
| 11 | Initially , most of these sales were made through mail order specialists but retail has become a growing sector and today accounts for about half of current sales . |
| 12 | Clarks International has unveiled a new range of sports shoes called Cica . |
| 13 | ‘ BP Oil International has operated a total loss control recording system since 1989 . |
| 14 | Amersham International has launched a new range of sensitive , ready to use substrates for horseradish peroxidase and alkaline phosphatase based western blotting detection systems . |
| 15 | Citing previous ‘ death squad attacks ’ , Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal to the government to safeguard the bishops . |
| 16 | Hitachi Ltd has developed a high-speed text retrieval system for the company 's 3050 Unix workstations . |
| 17 | Berkhampstead-based software and services company ECSoft Ltd has announced a new Downsizing and Rightsizing service package , as part of its ECServices portfolio , to help technical and non-technical managers assess the viability and costs of downsizing . |
| 18 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 19 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
| 20 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 21 | Fujitsu Ltd has opened an Open Systems Integration Centre in its Systems Laboratories in Kamata on the outskirts of Tokyo . |
| 22 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 23 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Kew-based Microft Technology Ltd has released a low cost version of its fast text retrieval system , Wordbase . |
| 26 | Fujitsu Ltd has released an open office automation system , based on an integrated system called IFOS-Lite . |
| 27 | But your old coins wo n't go to waste , because Malcolm Campbell , a service engineer at Wood Group Engineering Services [ Peterhead ] Ltd has got the perfect solution . |
| 28 | Bergman Ltd has used the periodic system of recording stock . |
| 29 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
| 30 | Shocked has taken a brave step . |