Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Computer Sciences Corp has won a multi-year facilities management contract from Sun Microsystems Inc that is expected to generate $27m a year : under the agreement , Sun will temporarily transfer all its mainframe data centre activities in Milpitas , California to a Computer Sciences data centre in San Diego , enabling Sun to convert its mainframe systems , which oversee its worldwide manufacturing operations , to a client-server environment , with help from Computer Sciences , and the El Segundo company will run Sun 's day-to-day operations , supporting applications maintenance for its Manufacturing Resource Planning software , while the client-server system is developed and installed . |
2 | Alcatel Network Systems UK Ltd says it is launching a mobile communications system for UK freight services to link vehicles via satellite to their home base using its Euteltracs mobile system which provides two-way text communications between a mobile unit and its base , and position tracking and group messaging ; the service is similar to electronic mail and airtime costs are similar to cellular phone costs ; a mobile kit comprising antenna , the communications unit and keyboard should sell for £4,000 ; the system uses Qualcomm Inc 's technology . |
3 | He was also able to report that under the new chief executive , David Michels , the group had regained control of its runaway balance sheet position by selling its Ashbourne nursing home division , launching a well-received rights issue and restructuring the banking arrangements with a considerable reduction in the number of banks . |
4 | You will need a good honours degree in any discipline or alternatively a degree , HND or equivalent combined with experience at management level . |
5 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
6 | The MD100 Broadband Premises Network provide a structured premises infrastructure for all types of traffic . |
7 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
8 | Persona non grata in Hollywood , he moved to New York , appearing in plays and television , and becoming a well-respected stills photographer ; he would return later to make Nicholson a star . |
9 | NORTH Korea , suspected of trying to develop nuclear arms , declared yesterday that any attempt to force it to accept a United Nations inspection could lead to war . |
10 | Exciting because you will join colleagues in a mad rush to write a public relations proposal for the prospective new client and to create a hopefully imaginative and pleasing presentation of these proposals . |
11 | The closest to the truth will win a thousand dollars credit at their local Titancorp comics store , a Captain Haddock T-shirt and an all-expenses-paid holiday for two in balmy Beirut . |
12 | I says to Steve , I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else |
13 | The Open Champion described a delayed rules decision as ‘ pathetic ’ after alleging that home favourite and joint halfway leader Ernie Els had breached regulations when he used his putter to brush away a beetle on the second green . |
14 | ( This will be easier if you have got into the habit of keeping a simple appointments diary . ) |
15 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
16 | Toftingall , which lies a few miles south from the village of Watten , was one of the first Caithness lochs we fished . |
17 | Accompanying this measure was a national scheme , operated by the local authorities , for rate-payers unable to meet a full rates bill . |
18 | In 1989 , the University decided to establish a combined honours course in the History of Art , which will admit its first intake this October . |
19 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that the Trevi Group of Justice and Interior Ministers formed after the Trevi security conference of 1976 ( see pp. 34883 ; 36492 ) , had agreed to establish a joint police database for use primarily against international terrorism and drug dealing . |
20 | The Whitney Museum is to take photography seriously : its director , David Ross , has announced the setting up of an acquisitions committee whose job will be to establish a coherent acquisitions policy , mainly by filling gaps in the present collections . |
21 | There is also the intention to establish a major schools music competition , which will culminate in a special BT Scottish Ensemble concert . |
22 | The recent announcement that the National Gallery intend to establish a public relations department may improve the situation . |
23 | SIEMENS NIXDORF TO ESTABLISH A RUSSIA-WIDE POLICE NETWORK |
24 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
25 | I 've already answered the underlying question , I do believe that they should have the maximum discretion and then they should be answerable for their decisions to their local electors who want a good police service and want a good education service and there is money there for them to do it if that is their wish . |
26 | For traders who want a low-risk futures position , an intracommodity spread may be attractive . |
27 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
28 | Joe said he ‘ drove like the devil ’ and found a parked police van . |
29 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
30 | Helping children to adapt to school life by adopting a sensitive admissions policy . |