Example sentences of "[v-ing] its [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intent on fattening its meagre $20m Italian business — in a total computer market of between $20,000m and $30,000m — EDS has been negotiating with a number of companies , including Rome-based Database Informatica SpA , Italy 's third-largest systems house after Finsiel and Olivetti Information Systems , say sources at EDS and Database Informatica . |
| 2 | San Jose , California-based Frame Technology Corp is extending its operations to Europe opening its European headquarters in Dublin , Ireland : the office will directly market its FrameMaker suite of products and provide a range of technical support services . |
| 3 | The usual way , however , is to start by using an agent , then opening its own sales office with a limited number of staff and , once profits start to show , allow the unit to become self-sufficient and expand ultimately into manufacturing . |
| 4 | Using its Dynamic Data Exchange ( DDE ) client and server capabilities , complex applications can be built to run locally ( or even over a network ) . |
| 5 | But unlike many computer-makers , Compaq makes all its sales through dealers , rather than by using its own sales force . |
| 6 | The company is promoting its outside sales , in particular house sales , which attract private buyers willing to bid considerably above estimate . |
| 7 | She was still concentrating on surviving , each day presenting its own series of obstacles ; she was content simply not to appear too odd or ignorant . |
| 8 | Jazz FM joined Kiss and LBC at sales house Independent Radio Sales this week after quitting its long-term sales partner , The Radio Sales Company , on Friday . |
| 9 | Berkeley Eastoak Investment , the jointly-owned commercial property arm set up 18 months ago , announced yesterday it was doubling its original £100m investment in the market . |
| 10 | Is it because the Labour party feels that it could not convince the people but could achieve its objectives through a centralist bureaucracy in Europe — rather than through argument and persuading its own people ? |
| 11 | THE speciality chemicals group , Laporte , is expecting its recent £129 million acquisition , Evode , to boost earnings in the current year . |
| 12 | Tandem Computers Inc , Cupertino is moving its Asian headquarters to Singapore from California later this month , specialising in telecommunications , banking and finance ; it already has a joint software company , Twin-Soft Asia Pte Ltd , with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd which it formed last year , and it is planning to launch a screen-based smart telephone that can access host computers using a telephone handset , a small display , a programmable microprocessor and a modem , in Singapore next month . |
| 13 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 14 | BARCLAYS Bank has spent more than £5m equipping its 1,500 sales staff with laptop computers it claims will limit the likelihood of clients being given unsuitable advice . |
| 15 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 16 | Alias Research Inc of Toronto , Canada is making its digital media creation software easier to integrate with other industry-standard digital media formats under its ‘ Open Digital Studio ’ environment . |
| 17 | BT is also extending its Global Data Networking service ( a managed data network ) throughout Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Container group Tiphook yesterday said it was still confident of winning its joint £643million bid for Sea Containers even though the battle has swung towards James Sherwood 's ferries-to-trailers combine . |
| 19 | Network Systems Corp , Minneapolis has announced it is supplying its 6000 Series multiprotocol bridge-routers to New Jersey Bell Telephone Co : they will be used for the Metropolitan Area Network being installed for the US Army at Fort Monmouth , New Jersey ; the order comprises an initial 21 Model 6614 and 6617 routers ( with another 12 planned for future installation ) , to be installed as part of a FDDI-based fibre optic backbone ; value of the order was not released . |
| 20 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |