Example sentences of "says it [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nintendo Co does plan to use satellites for delivery of computer games : the company says it plans to broadcast a game via satellite in Japan , and owners of its game computers that buy a decoder and adaptor — for about $85 — will be able to pick the thing up ; Nintendo also plans a national competition for high scorers in satellite games ; meantime Nintendo of America is poised for its largest launch of a video game ever this week in a bid to best Sega Enterprises Ltd — it plans to spend up to $15m in a month-long promotion of Star Fox , a science fiction action game inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars that uses its new Super FX technology , which includes a RISC embedded in the $60 games cartridge ; it claims to have 1m advance orders for it . |
2 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
3 | The Belgian state-owned Belgacom says it hopes to pick a partner by July 15 to help it develop its activities in the digital cordless phone market , Reuter reports from Brussels : if the partnership works well , the firm involved might be offered equity participation in a Belgacom mobile telephones company . |
4 | It says it hopes to formulate a proposal for the holders in due course . |
5 | The company says it hopes to put an end to the smell by the end of the year , but their critics say that 's not good enough . |
6 | It says it has obtained a copy of a memorandum concerning co-operation between MI5 and its German equivalent , the Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz or BfV — the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . |
7 | Parsippany , New Jersey-based Unix International Inc says it has completed a specification that will enable software developers to create debugging tools that can analyse any Unix application . |
8 | Tata Consultancy Services , the Indian company , says it has done a lot of work for Unix System Labs on Unix device drivers and hopes to get more work now that it has bought into the firm ( UX No 378 ) . |
9 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
10 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
11 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
12 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it has signed a contract with its established Chinese co-operation partner Beijing Wire & Communications Plant for delivery of digital PABXes : the value of the pact is put at $88m . |
13 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces : under the non-exclusive agreement , Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence , agro-chemical and automotive industries ; O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success ; an O2 spokeswoman said Ingenia has great expectations of the potential of O2 to be used for a large number of its applications . |
14 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces . |
15 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications says it has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Mobile Communications for the supply of switching and base station equipment for the Ukrainian NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone network : the network is to be launched commercially in Kiev in the next few weeks and will become available in two other major cities by the end of this year ; Ukrainian Mobile Communications is jointly owned by Ukrainian local operators , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Telecom Denmark Ltd . |
16 | Telecom Australia , which trades off-shore as Telstra , says it has won a licence to build and operate a digital cellular telephone service in New Zealand ; Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd will also face competition in the cellular market from BellSouth Corp , expected to launch its network next month . |
17 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
18 | so I er what you call it , I took it back and I says er there 's summat wrong with this one , I says it 's got a line or whatever it is , I says I ca n't get it off . |
19 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
20 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc says it expects to announce an agreement on a foundry for production of Am486s by the end of next month , but it does not see any revenues from the agreement before January next year : it expects to produce about 600,000 to 700,000 Am486 chips this year , and to increase that production to about 1m per quarter by the second quarter of next year ; it is still ‘ negotiating in earnest ’ with several possible foundry candidates . |
21 | It says it expects to offer a wireless electronic messaging service by the end of the year , and that it is aiming for beta testing during the summer . |
22 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
23 | Following an integration and final testing phase , the Desktop Management Task Force says it expects to provide a reference implementation of the specification and make a free prototype available later this year . |
24 | Concurrent Computer Corp , Oceanport , New Jersey says it intends to file a registration statement soon for a public offer of shares sufficient to raise about $60m . |