Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 2 | The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service . |
| 3 | Recently , another retailer has opened a store in the South of England and uses the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICE " . |
| 4 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a warning against eating fish caught in the River Mersey , because of contamination fears following the long-running leakage of dangerous chemicals from an old waste tip at Widnes , Cheshire . |
| 6 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 7 | If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged . |
| 8 | Intel Corp has confirmed a report in the San Francisco Chronicle that it will delay introduction of its Pentium microprocessor until May , but denies the paper 's assertion that it is holding the chip back to exploit demand for existing 80486 products . |
| 9 | Milpitas , California-based Read-Rite Corp has formed a product development alliance with Mitsubishi Kasei Co for the development of magnetic heads and disks : the companies will co-operate to develop thin film heads and disks using inductive data detection for data densities of 500M-bits per square inch of disk , and magnetoresistive products , enabling 600Mb to be crammed onto a single 3.5″ platter ; high capacity drives have several platters in the disk-head assembly . |
| 10 | Intergraph Corp has landed a $422m share of the US Navy 's $1.5bn CAD-2 programme and is to supply 4,200 workstations and 1,082 servers based on its Clipper RISC . |
| 11 | Dallas , Texas-based Saber Software Corp has licensed a subset of the Saber Menu System for MS-DOS , to Novell Inc , which will include the Saber Menu Language in NetWare v4.0 , so it will be goodbye to the old Novell Menu utility MENU.EXE . |
| 12 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp has rallied a Laguna Hills , California start-up , Carrera Computers Inc to its Windows NT-on-Alpha cause and the company will begin selling motherboards built around the 150MHz Alpha AXP RISC chip in the third quarter , according to US PC Week . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp has packaged a cost-optimised 100 MIPS 10 Watt Alpha chip , some DECelx and OSF/1 real-time software and services to attract OEM customers in the embedded market , and hardware samples are promised for the summer ; the chips will also be used in single-board computers , the company says . |
| 15 | NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers . |
| 16 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 17 | In the US , Oracle Corp has introduced a master application programming interface — middleware in its terminology — to connect software running on heterogeneous clients to disparate servers and databases . |
| 18 | Unisys Corp has introduced a clustering system for its 2200 series mainframes that it describes as a highly parallel processing technology yielding significantly higher levels of system performance for mainframe servers . |
| 19 | As a step in this direction , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has signed a service alliance agreement with Computer Sciences Corp , El Segundo , California to pursue systems integration business in the wireless telecommunications market . |
| 20 | Opportunistically , Roy , Utah-based Iomega Corp has signed a letter of intent to become exclusive worldwide distributor for Nomai SA 's cartridge disks that are compatible with SyQuest Technology Inc drives and over which SyQuest has sued Nomai , trying to prevent the French company from manufacturing and selling cartridges for its drives . |
| 21 | Compaq Computer Corp has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Group Co Ltd , China 's largest private computer distributor , giving it access to Stone 's 100-plus sales outlets : it already has agreements with five other distributors for the vast Chinese market . |
| 22 | Naperville , Illinois-based Unir Corp has signed a distribution agreement with AT&T to sell and support AT&T 's eight-year old object programming language and development environment C3 . |
| 23 | Dun & Bradstreet Corp has acquired a majority interest in Gartner Group Inc for $33m from Information Partners Capital Fund LP , which financed the company 's buy-out from Saatchi & Saatchi Plc ; Gartner Group was previously controlled by Boston-based Information Partners , a venture capital firm in which Dun & Bradstreet is a limited partner . |
| 24 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 25 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 26 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 27 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 28 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 29 | Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC . |
| 30 | Denton , Texas-based Scott Instruments Corp has won a development and distribution agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc for its speech recognition systems for workstations but terms were n't disclosed : speech-aware Silicon Graphics workstations , expected to be available in the second half of the year , will respond to spoken commands . |