Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] [vb -s] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following close on the termination of its Open Desktop agreement with Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Ask Computer Systems Inc 's Ingres Products Division faces another divorce : now Digital Equipment Corp is to sever links , ending a three-year bundling of the Ingres relational database management system under Ultrix . |
| 2 | A ginger group , the Washington-based United Shareholders Association plans this month to start soliciting shareholder proxies for a motion that if approved would force IBM 's non-executive directors to call in a firm of investment bankers to advise on a plan to maximise shareholder value by spinning off or selling one or more units of the company . |
| 3 | The application of the LEA 's formula to the Aggregated Schools Budget produces each school 's budget share . |
| 4 | that such an arts education fosters those long established cultural traditions and normative assumptions about gender which tend to be inhibitive rather than enriching of personal development and sensibility , and discouraging rather than encouraging of purposeful action in the world . |
| 5 | The Fine Arts Society denies this , but by lowering the price to £35,000 , just under the export limit , and selling to a foreign buyer , they also avoided the 17% VAT ( sales tax ) on their profit which they would have paid had they sold to a British institution . |
| 6 | That came after Liverpool 's frustration bubbled to the surface when Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to receive a red card in four European Cup Winners Cup matches this season . |
| 7 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 8 | Section 2 was further discredited by the jury acquittal of Clive Ponting , and it remains to be seen whether the 1989 Official Secrets Act fares any better at the hands of twelve good men and women and true . |
| 9 | For efficient management of a company , records should be maintained in at least three categories : Financial accounts Cost accounts Management accounts Each of these divisions of the accounts records are of course interrelated and will now be examined in detail . |
| 10 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 11 | If the Government is serious about reducing the burdens on business , it says , then the £2m turnover criterion contained in the Companies Act makes much more sense than the proposed £36,600 VAT threshold which is far too low . |
| 12 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 13 | Fifth , class action suits mean that a shareholder with just one share can sue on behalf of the entire body of shareholders and , finally , the widely misused Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act allows any firm that has been charged with fraud more than three times in the previous few years , whether or not it is found guilty , to be perceived as a corrupt organisation and therefore liable for triple damages . |
| 14 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 15 | The Barclays Residential Buildings Policy covers all these and you can add cover for contents of furnished property . |
| 16 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 17 | In its report , Conting the Cost of Childcare , the Pre-School Playgroups Association says more government money is needed , but many get little or nothing |
| 18 | The Illustrations Collection contains some 250,000 sheets , of varying degrees of quality and utility . |
| 19 | A quick look at just a few areas of today 's public relations work confirms that prediction : |
| 20 | A highly advanced radio communications system makes this possible . |
| 21 | Sir : If Labour is to suggest the setting up of a specialist labour court ( 30 September ) , then such a momentous change in the industrial relations system deserves more discussion , and needs to be taken out of the hot-house of Labour Party conference politics . |
| 22 | Today almost every country with a developed securities market has some form of controls outlawing insider dealing and with the introduction of the EC Directive on Insider Dealing every country in the EEC will be required to adopt minimum legislative prohibitions . |
| 23 | The Felixstowe Justices case illustrates another way in which standing and merits are related : just as the journalist had a sufficient interest only in the general policy of secrecy and not in its application to a particular case , so the remedy to which he was entitled related only to the general policy . |
| 24 | The Windows product extends that , with enhancements like the icon-driven interface . |
| 25 | To open up new routes Virgin needs more planes , and it 's come here to Airbus , in the South of France for some of them . |
| 26 | And for girls sex means much more than just intercourse . |
| 27 | Removing a Windows application involves more than just deleting the icon from the Program Manager . |
| 28 | Although games software has some significance in terms of the technology of multimedia , it is of little relevance to the information industry more generally . |
| 29 | Compared to many languages English has few affixes . |
| 30 | This Oxfordshire junior doctors representative says many are working ninety hours a week or more . |