Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " 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 | Growth-hungry pubs and hotels group Greenalls has wrestled a tiny profits improvement out of a difficult year . |
| 3 | The National Economic Development Office has organised a specialised organics seminar , Chemistry for a better environment — environmental challenges and opportunities in the specialised organics sector , on 17 March 1992 in Manchester . |
| 4 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 5 | One coronory care unti in five operated an age-related admissions policy . |
| 6 | Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world . |
| 7 | So we have had a failing government , we 've had a failing Tory administration , and the people who are interested in looking after this county and all it 's services within the budget set by central government , has made sure that we have got a good police force , which it will not receive cuts in it 's services , cuts in it 's er , it 's , it 's er , forces , and make sure that other services , like education , social services , libraries , highways and everything else will also be adequately funded in this county . |
| 8 | PRINCE Michael of Kent has got a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence — so that he can drive a horse transporter to hunts for his wife . |
| 9 | Yeah , they got , they 've got a massive Bugs Bunny sitting up over the sweet counter as you go in |
| 10 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers . |
| 11 | In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 12 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) . |
| 13 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 14 | For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending . |
| 15 | but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon |
| 16 | It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 17 | A few authorities , however , have long had a formal policy of allowing parents to see their children 's school records , and individual schools have sometimes had an open files policy and reported beneficial results to the motivation of pupils and relations with parents . |
| 18 | Fujitsu Ltd has opened an Open Systems Integration Centre in its Systems Laboratories in Kamata on the outskirts of Tokyo . |
| 19 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |
| 20 | Given a stable withdrawals line , the steepness of the IS curve depends on the interest-elasticity of investment . |
| 21 | In order to increase separation , Hartke have developed a special 5″ driver for use in conjunction with the 15-incher . |
| 22 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 23 | Cinncinatti , Ohio-based SCH Inc has formed a Professional Services Division which will focus on helping users move from proprietary to Unix-based software solutions . |
| 24 | ARTILLERY fire and minelaying by government and rebel troops have halted a United Nations reconnaissance mission in Cambodia . |
| 25 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 26 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 27 | In other time management systems this sort of thing would be called a key results area , erm , you know , it , it 's that kind of thing . |
| 28 | The district councils group , which has employed a public relations company to press its case against replacing the districts with one or two large single-tier Highland authorities , also showed Mr Lang a video promoting their view . |
| 29 | As soon as the results of the General Election were known a special governors meeting was called for April 29 to resume the opt-out debate . |
| 30 | USL has also provided a customisable systems administration guide and release notes for creating end-user documentation and installation script . |