Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One technique involves helping a person to break down a problem into more manageable subproblems and consider the merits of various possible solutions to each part . |
| 2 | But , if the information is derived from several populations ( e.g. different years ) , the analagous technique involves setting a base year figure to 100 and scaling the figures for succeeding years relative to this . |
| 3 | The reason is not technical difficulty or avalanches , but the fact that the normal route involves reaching a ridge at 7,000 metres which is no less than four kilometres away from the summit pyramid . |
| 4 | Adding the constraint involves adding a row with no negative pivot , so the down-problem is infeasible . |
| 5 | Here the company offering the contract agrees to offer a replacement car or plane for the period of time in which the vehicle is down for maintenance , repairs etc . |
| 6 | In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 7 | When a retailer has placed an order with a manufacturer , he enters it on to a stock record card . |
| 8 | The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service . |
| 9 | Recently , another retailer has opened a store in the South of England and uses the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES AND SERVICE " . |
| 10 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 11 | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced an inquiry into the practices of the animal foodstuffs industry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now , the United State 's Department of Agriculture has found a way to replace 30% of flour in cake mix with straw . |
| 14 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | NCR Corp has instituted a trade-in programme to move its installed base of Tower and 3B2 users on to its 3400 servers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nashville , Tennessee , Arnet Corp has introduced an X-Windows facsimile viewer programme for Intel iAPX-86 Unix systems : prices start at $1,300 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |