Example sentences of "a computer " in BNC.
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| 31 | One young representative , Colin Mason , a computer systems manager from Streatham , who branded environmental controls as ‘ socialism by the back door ’ , was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philospher Edmund Burke . |
| 32 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 33 | It has also elegantly solved the problems surrounding theft with the aid of a computer . |
| 34 | According to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , the commission has done a good job in proposing new legislation which is workable and fits well with other parts of the law . |
| 35 | Mr Sommer also believes the basic offence of entering a computer will be virtually unenforceable , partly because of lack of police manpower and partly because arrest warrants for this less serious offence will involve applying to a magistrate . |
| 36 | Rumours were circulating that a computer virus had been injected into software systems some time ago by computer terrorists and was programmed to break out yesterday , wiping out all data in the ailing computer system . |
| 37 | It does this through sensors which monitor speed and body movement , and this information is passed on to a computer . |
| 38 | The virus is activated when the computer program is ‘ executed ’ by running it on a computer . |
| 39 | Every week , the playlisted records are programmed by a computer to rotate around the different weekday daytime shows . |
| 40 | As a result , many stations are now programmed by one man and a computer . |
| 41 | If the company are unwilling to do this , the accountant , possibly with the assistance of a computer bureau , will generally be happy to get this done . |
| 42 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 43 | With sufficient ingenuity all the tests except those in groups 2B , 3A , 5C could be devised by a computer . |
| 44 | The Company Command Post is already a hive of activity as the daily reports are being collated on a computer , ready for transmission to Battalion Headquarters . |
| 45 | This systems then bring all this together graphically on to a computer screen — which can be the hotel 's back-office system to avoid duplication . |
| 46 | They 'd both jacked in their jobs ( he 's a computer programmer ; she 's a physiotherapist ) and were planning to backpack round the world for a few months . |
| 47 | Camden and Islington councils , meanwhile , have given the Met a free copy of LAFIS — a computer programme which they developed at a cost of £15 million , and sold to other authorities for about £2 million a throw . |
| 48 | Maybe it helps to generate the sense of ‘ direct engagement ’ in your work that comes when you forget you are using a computer at all . |
| 49 | Yet most practices still do not have a computer , and the vast majority will start working the contract without the information technology expertise to manage it . ’ |
| 50 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 51 | Ian Richards ' book , How to Use a Computer to Improve Your Business , has just been published by Graham & Trotman ( £8.95 paperback ; £16 hardback ) . |
| 52 | Nowadays , multimedia means a computer using different media , such as a laser disc , a CD-ROM , cable TV and who knows what else . |
| 53 | Of course , not all presents for the person-with-everything even require a computer . |
| 54 | The highest award was £307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter . |
| 55 | A computer strategy for England is promised . |
| 56 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 57 | Adding a human opponent gives a game an extra , unpredictable excitement that a computer opponent lacks . |
| 58 | Such applications were prefigured by Michael Frayn some 20 years ago in his novel The Tin Men which features a computer programmed to pray , so that its orisons might bring down divine favour in accordance with Christian teaching : the computer having no selfish motives , its disinterested sincerity can not be doubted . |
| 59 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 60 | Simpson 's own practice recently received a computer disc from an unnamed council containing the names of over 5,000 defaulters . |