Example sentences of "a computer " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUYING a computer system for a single hotel or restaurant , or for a chain of units , involves far more than ordering and taking delivery of powerful foxes loaded with clever software . |
| 2 | How successful a computer installation is will depend largely on how clearly the customer and the supplier have defined , at the outset , what the system is supposed to achieve . |
| 3 | ‘ Users must also be encouraged to recognise the difference between a reception problem and a computer problem . |
| 4 | Everything stored in the memory of a computer can be copied on to removable diskettes . |
| 5 | See a computer dealer for more advice and insist on seeing a demonstration before you buy . |
| 6 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 7 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 8 | ‘ They think it 's a computer error — but they 're still checking on it . ’ |
| 9 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 10 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 11 | Well , I think that there is an argument of sorts for saying that a computer of the kind described does not have a theory of the external world , does not have mental states which refer , and does not therefore have thoughts in any significant sense . |
| 12 | No one outside of the wilder sects of the artificial intelligence fraternity would suggest that a device that translated morse into natural language characters on the screen of a computer was releasing the consciousness implicit in morse . |
| 13 | If these definitions were put through a computer they would list five kinds of jumps , twenty-three pas de bourrée , seven glissades and so on . |
| 14 | Andrew was determined to pursue a computer career . |
| 15 | This is a project aimed at building a computer which can process one million floating point operations per second . |
| 16 | People must n't think that because there 's a computer , they 've got to think of a use for it . ’ |
| 17 | Thermocouples at critical points in each fridge or other piece of equipment will show , through a computer print-out , how the temperature varies inside it . |
| 18 | A computer system is also available whereby the record kept by the court stenographer is fed to a print-out on a screen for the defendant . |
| 19 | The data would be sent to a computer and , as with telephone calls , logged , costed and sent out in the form of a periodic bill . |
| 20 | The precocious meddler actually managed to gain access to a computer used by Grumman to handle military customers including the Pentagon , police said . |
| 21 | But , according to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , a hard disc ‘ is more likely to be wiped out by glitches in the electricity supply ’ . |
| 22 | Alan Bates 's Muse Of Fire , for example , could have been compiled by a computer : its selection of all the biggest blazes in world literature lacks any sense of dramatic propulsion , a shapeless cabaret-set without music . |
| 23 | But the main area of controversy is whether simply obtaining unauthorised access to a computer should be a crime . |
| 24 | With their teams of lawyers , accountants and company agents , and able to transfer money at the push of a computer button , the launderers dodge through the maze of the different countries ' jurisdictions creating a trail so complex that investigators , never mind the banks , find it almost impossible to spot what is going on . |
| 25 | Investigators are feeding weather and tide charts into a computer to trace the voyage . |
| 26 | At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , produced a computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ : the list was so long because he had counted every programme over £1m , whereas schemes had previously had to cost over £5m in order to qualify . |
| 27 | There should a widely-drawn ‘ basic ’ summary offence of unauthorised entry into a computer system , an aggravated offence of unauthorised entry with intent to commit or assist in serious crime , and a further serious offence of altering computer-held data or programs . |
| 28 | If the recommendations became law , unauthorised entry to a computer through carelessness would technically be an offence , so there was more of an onus on companies to ensure that all employees knew exactly what they were authorised to do , a spokesman said . |
| 29 | Shortly after the commission 's report was made public , Alan Soloman , a computer virus expert , invited hackers , and those whose business it is to keep them out , to a tournament which will test the expertise of both sides . |
| 30 | Cathy Wallis , a computer programmer , believes the policy has improved the quality of her working life and would definitely think twice about accepting a job where smoking was the norm . |