Example sentences of "[to-vb] telephone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 2 | The loose political consensus in the United States which produced the AT&T break-up of 1982–4 also hoped to encourage telephone deregulation in the rest of the world ; the AT&T high command were especially eager to enter both the computer business and the world market for telephone equipment . |
| 3 | The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks . |
| 4 | AT&T should split itself into two separate companies , one to manufacture equipment , the other to provide telephone calls . |
| 5 | Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company . |
| 6 | And as reported , Siemens Private Communications Systems Group plans to develop NotePhone , combining Siemens-Rolm telephony and Newton to provide telephone and facsimile . |
| 7 | The hotel owner , Peter , has personally overseen the comfortable design of all 33 rooms to include telephone , TV , radio . |
| 8 | A company spokesman said : ‘ We introduced cheap rates to stimulate telephone traffic . |
| 9 | It is not necessarily good practice to confirm telephone orders by posting a written order as confusion may result in duplication of deliveries . |
| 10 | Mercury wants to install a network of fibre-optic cables , to carry telephone calls and computer data , inside the ducts that run along railway tracks . |
| 11 | Later in the 1980s , Mercury may also lease transmitters on a European satellite to carry telephone calls to other parts of the continent . |
| 12 | British Aerospace could be the main industrial beneficiary if the Indians decide to place contracts in the UK , perhaps for space vehicles to carry telephone calls or TV . |
| 13 | This is a remarkable example of dependence , but it follows a century earlier the acceptance — for example in Latin America — of foreign rail operation , which in turn led to foreign-run telephone systems . |
| 14 | We started to receive telephone calls telling us we only had so many hours to live . |
| 15 | SAMSUNG TO INSTALL TELEPHONE SYSTEM IN OPOLE |
| 16 | If trees are alongside a road they are likely to conceal telephone or power wires , making it dangerous to go between them . |
| 17 | It will enable you to challenge telephone bills if you think they are wrong and to gain a better idea of how much you are paying while you talk . |
| 18 | Inevitably , the £10 increase in the connection charge will only serve to put telephone ownership out of the reach of more elderly people . |
| 19 | TELEFONOS DE MEXICO TO EXTEND TELEPHONE NETWORK |
| 20 | I mean we 've tried to write down everything she does but it 's so varied I mean , telephone calls and she has to do telephone calls . |
| 21 | THE TASK is to reduce telephone response time for calls coming in to John Wood House . |
| 22 | Dr Einon started by asking James to repeat telephone numbers , then to remember a sequence of words , then to repeat word lists after counting backwards from ten to one as a distraction ( see graph ) . |
| 23 | They then check the printed index first , to save telephone time note the page numbers they wish to start at and then ask a member of the library staff for a line to Prestel . |
| 24 | After the toasts and handshakes , the socialites opened their diaries and began to swap telephone numbers and lunch dates . |
| 25 | The study will examine what new infrastructure is needed to expand telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 26 | Recently a deal worth $2m was struck with the Nizhnevartovskneftegas ( Nizhnevartovsk Oil & Gas ) combine and the Sibneftepererabotka ( Siberian oil processing ) combine to supply telephone exchanges each with a capacity of 8,000 numbers . |
| 27 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a contract worth $300m to supply telephone exchanges and related equipment to Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Bureau , the largest contract it has yet signed in China ; the contract formalises a broad agreement made back in June 1992 . |
| 28 | This must make it hard for the agencies who undertake to deliver telephone sales messages . |
| 29 | It is not always possible to answer post by return , or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes . |
| 30 | At the end of each course , members are invited to exchange telephone numbers and addresses , and small self-help groups often develop . |