Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The description given seems to fit the previous attack on the first of June , when a 20 year old student was raped in the toilets in Magdalen Street . |
| 2 | Ordinary dispels , rebounds and other magic cards may be used as normal to stop spells directed at the Trolls should their natural dispel fail to work . |
| 3 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 4 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 5 | At another site , in Caithness , use of the scanning electron microscope combined with an autoradiographic technique has helped to define the way in which soluble uranium had been translocated from a sandstone bedrock into the overlying regolith/soil . |
| 6 | Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry . |
| 7 | Sprint Corp has decided to standardise on Microsoft Corp operating systems , applications and technical support for all Sprint Corp units : the ‘ long-term , multimillion dollar ’ agreement involves software for all Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS operating systems as well as the Macintosh systems at Sprint . |
| 8 | Informix Corp has decided to hedge its bets , and broaden its definition of open systems — as a result , its relational database will , in future , no longer run purely under Unix , but also under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Novell Inc 's NetWare . |
| 9 | Informix Corp has decided to hedge its bets , and broaden its definition of open systems — as a result , its relational database will , in future , no longer run purely under Unix , but also under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Novell Inc 's NetWare . |
| 10 | IBM Corp has decided to hand over support of its point-of-sale systems in the US to Eastman Kodak Co , Rochester , New York : the two will ‘ develop a dedicated store systems service organisation to provide maintenance service on current and future IBM point of sale products ’ . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 12 | Jibes about past financial difficulties are no longer valid he says — the recent flotation by US parent Computervision Corp has helped to put the company back on an even keel and the interest VirtualStation is already attracting provides more reason for optimism . |
| 13 | Fremont , California-based Lam Research Corp has failed to reach agreement for acquisition of Westech Systems Inc and the two have agreed to go their separate ways . |
| 14 | Retson , Virginia-based Network Imaging Corp has agreed to acquire Optix SA for shares worth $39m : Optix is a document imaging and optical storage technology company headquartered in Paris ; in the year to March 31 1992 , it had earnings of $2.5m on turnover of some $40m . |
| 15 | Irvine , California-based Platinum Software Corp has agreed to acquire Runcorn , Cheshire-based software developer Cypher Business Systems Ltd , on undisclosed terms . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 18 | Storage Technology Corp has had to turn to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd for helical scan subassemblies for planned new tape drives . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Cray Computer Corp has had to have another rethink on its strategy for its delayed and now down-sized Cray-3 supercomputer . |
| 20 | One of the benefits of making an acquisition has to be that duplicated positions can be eliminated , and NCR Corp has had to tell a total of 284 employees at two Teradata and two NCR locations in Southern California that they are surplus to requirements . |
| 21 | Only one major text has attempted to break out of this mould and that is Daniel Kemp and frank Vellaccio 's Organic Chemistry ( Worth , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | British Rail has decided to have a dedicated , high-quality link between the stations and is examining a number of options effectively to make Euston part of the international terminal complex . |
| 23 | British Rail has had to postpone buying new rolling stock for Network South-East because it says there is not enough money available at present . |
| 24 | Our ‘ Palatinate Lager ’ brand has continued to enjoy steady growth , supported by a series of TV advertisements . |
| 25 | ( Alternative ending : Finally , I must pay tribute to the bridesmaids Sharon , Natalie , Margaret and Sue whose invaluable support has helped to make this day so successful . ) |
| 26 | There is the age at which I will grow into my own maturation , and there is the age at which my hair has started to turn grey . |
| 27 | Barth has referred again and again to this discovery in his interviews and articles , and there is no doubt that the existence of such works as The Ocean of Story has helped to form his resistance to the ‘ modernist notion that plot is an anachronistic element in contemporary fiction ’ . |
| 28 | The Sunday Express has begun to reap the rewards of a series of promotions with its largest circulation increase since it was relaunched under the editorship of Eve Pollard in May last year . |
| 29 | That kind of rise has helped to push the average purse available on the tour next year up to £340,000 , whereas 10 years ago the prize fund for the Open Championship was only £200,000 . |
| 30 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |