Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Council has set the £353 bill based on a £21.6m budget . |
| 3 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 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 | THE Somme Association has received a £100 , grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board towards new facilities for visitors to the Ulster Memorial Tower at Thiepval in France . |
| 6 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 7 | WILD West researcher Donald Clerk has put a 30ft totem pole on his lawn at Zelah , Cornwall , to ward off evil spirits . |
| 8 | NIRVANA star Kurt Cobain has launched a £20,000 bid to beat a rare sleeping disease after falling asleep … half-way through a concert . |
| 9 | Coventry , UK : Courtaulds Engineering has won a £750,000 contract in connection with a new cellulose flake plant for Courtaulds Chemicals at Spondon . |
| 10 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A MERSEYSIDE couple has launched a £10,000 fund raising campaign as a tribute to their baby son 's short life . |
| 13 | Putting the bid together in time for the mid-December deadline has meant a £2 million outlay on LASMO 's part . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reclusive Inspector Morse star has bought the £425,000 Cotswold stone retreat in Luckington , Wilts , so he and his wife , actress Sheila Hancock , can get away from the hurly-burly of London . |
| 16 | 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and Darlington council has backed a series of measures including free window etching sessions and regular monitoring of security and lighting in council car parks . |
| 17 | A FORMER pupil of an Edinburgh school has started a £30,000 damages action after claiming staff failed to protect her from bullies . |
| 18 | A working group established at the Berlin conference has elaborated a series of proposals for the Budapest conference to adopt , said Mr Loeschnak . |
| 19 | A working group established at the Berlin conference has elaborated a series of proposals for the Budapest conference to adopt , said Loeschnak . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , the EHS model has provided the means to analyse the contribution of individual matrix components . |