Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has also won a $6.2m contract with the Tyumen regional government to provide an intercity telephone exchange for the city . |
| 2 | ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers . |
| 3 | Has your clever idea won a £50 cash prize this month ? |
| 4 | In the UK , Sequent Computer Systems Ltd , Weybridge , Surrey , has won a £1.2m contract from Nuclear Electric — the UK 's state owned nuclear power generator — to supply 15 Symmetry 2000/200 systems , which replace the existing ICL mainframes . |
| 5 | Coventry , UK : Courtaulds Engineering has won a £750,000 contract in connection with a new cellulose flake plant for Courtaulds Chemicals at Spondon . |
| 6 | Unisys Corp 's French subsidiary has won a $9.3m order from the Agricultural Bank of Algeria to automate its 250 branches and 36 agencies in competition with Groupe Bull SA and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme . |
| 7 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 8 | A DUNFERMLINE reader , James Wilkie , has won a £1,000 computer in The Scotsman Budget competition with a highly accurate prediction of Mr Lamont 's plans . |
| 9 | £100,000 grant : The NorthEast has won a £100,000 Government grant for adult education courses run by the Workers Educational Association in schools , community centres and colleges throughout the region . |
| 10 | Now , they 've just won a £50,000 order to supply 59 instrumenmts to a new Museum of Music in Taiwan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | San Jose , California , Motorola Inc 's Commercial Systems Division has won a $5m deal from Plano , Texas-based Paging Network Inc , the paging services specialist , to install its Unix-based Motorola 68040 systems in 40 of its offices nationwide . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 14 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 15 | Newcastle University 's School of Education has won a £15,000 Audit Commission contract to study pupils ' attainment at GCSE . |
| 16 | Dallas-based BancTec Inc has won a $1.7m order from the Bank of England for a stand-alone check clearing system : the Old Lady will use three BancTec 5500 document transports and the associated peripherals in its London clearing centre . |
| 17 | Intergraph UK Ltd , Swindon , Wiltshire , has won a £1.7m contract from London-based systems consultant Logica plc for 30 workstations and five servers that Logica will use to develop a records maintenance system for Anglain Water Services . |
| 18 | Press Construction of Darlington has won a £12m contract to install new mains and services in Northumberland and Wearside for British Gas . |
| 19 | Ferranti International Plc , Manchester , says its Ferranti Technologies Inc unit has won a $9.8m contract amendment to improve the air combat training range being supplied to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 20 | Dale Electrics ' Mexican deal OTTOMORES Dale , the Mexican associate company of North Yorkshire based Dale Electric , has won a £1m order from communications company Telefonos de Mexico . |
| 21 | Gosforth High School has won a £240,000 Government grant to re-equip technology , science and maths areas so it can join the country 's select band of 88 Technology Schools . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The educational centre , at the edge of the industrial estate , has won a £1-for-£1 pledge from the Sports Council to back its fund-raising efforts for the £17,000 roof project . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Baghoomian had claimed a 50% interest in all Basquiat 's work based on an agreement he and the artist made before Basquiat 's death . |
| 26 | Canadian firm Corel Corporation , best known for its Corel Draw package , has reported a 145% increase in turnover to C$29M for its latest quarterly results to the end of August 1992 . |
| 27 | A tablespoon is considered a 20ml measure , a teaspoon 5ml , and a coffee-spoonful 2.5ml , so a granule dissolved in : — 40 tablespoons = 800ml = granule/ml so a 5ml dose contains a of a granule. ( 160 days supply ) 30 tablespoons = 600ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 120 days supply ) 20 tablespoons = 400ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 80 days supply ) 15 tablespoons = 300ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 60 days supply ) 8 tablespoons = 160ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 32 days supply ) A coffee spoonful will represent a dosage twice as small as the above i.e. 40 tablespoons = of a granule per 2.5ml dose . |
| 28 | Success at Wimbledon would have carried a £150,000 bonus , which Regal were offering for victory in both derbies , but the owner has refused the opportunity . |
| 29 | The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence . |
| 30 | The Center for Media and Values in Los Angeles , USA , has co-produced a multi-media package introducing Catholic leaders and teachers to media literacy education . |