Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 2 | Alcatel NV 's Alcatel Standard Electrica SA has won a new $500m telecommunications contract in China : the contract is for 6m telephone lines and comes after the $300m Chinese contract already announced . |
| 3 | The town of Telford has attracted a new £65,000,000 car components factory which will create 450 new jobs . |
| 4 | Dubbed the RSC-1X ruggedised portable workstation , SAIC has added a removable 535Mb disk , three-button trackball and a high output power supply , plus a 64Mb memory and 1.2Gb disk expansion options . |
| 5 | Here it is , and erm , leave these er , on this row er twenty five , I 've got a total sales figures , and it 's that total sales figure there that I want to pass across into another file . |
| 6 | ‘ And now we have got a full sales team we will be able to move further from home , ’ says Mr Murphy . |
| 7 | It says it 's got a maximum 43% improvement on multitasking user loads . |
| 8 | Birmingham Children 's Hospital has just had a new fish tank donated by the city 's Aqualand Pet Centre . |
| 9 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 10 | Harvard Securities had always had a high staff turnover . |
| 11 | The company was formed by Alistair Ross , who in 1986 had sold a 3i-backed poultry business to Hillsdown Holdings . |
| 12 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 13 | A CROSS-community group from Strangford has received a welcome £100,000 boost towards the cost of a new accommodation block at its residential home . |
| 14 | COLIN Gibbons , who makes forgery-detection machines , was given a fake £20 note in his pay in Bourne End , Bucks . |
| 15 | Working through the network of national associations of the three groups , the small team in Quito has developed a three-year media training course for use by church and community groups , schools and colleges . |
| 16 | Toshiba Corp has formed a long-term multimedia technology partnership with the SunSoft Inc arm of Sun Microsystems Inc : the first step will be the development of a text-to-speech capability for workstations . |
| 17 | Toshiba Corp has formed a long-term multimedia technology partnership with the SunSoft Inc : the first step will be the development of a text-to-speech capability for workstations . |
| 18 | It 's called a Qualitative Data Review form no it 's called a Qualitative Research Review form so what 's this in the something else . |
| 19 | He turned west , down to the hotel at Loweswater where , as he was to report to Newton , ‘ I might have landed a fine salmon trout . ’ |
| 20 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 21 | IMSL Inc , Houston , Texas , has introduced a C-based graphics library which includes an interactive interface-driven tool for manipulating generated results running on Sun , HP , IBM , DEC and Silicon Graphics workstations : IMSL claims Exponent Graphics for C reduces the amount of user-written C source code required to produce sophisticated graphical results by 75%-95% . |
| 22 | In the Netherlands , Wolters-Kluwer Bookshops are extending their range of book stocks with up to 100 CD-ROM titles and have appointed a new media adviser to help them plan future developments . |
| 23 | Brakspear 's employed him , with as much time off as was necessary to run the Club , which was charged a mere £5s. 0s. 0d. per annum for his services . |
| 24 | Wednesday last night confirmed that they have rejected a British-record £4m offer from United for the England international , as revealed in TODAY yesterday . |
| 25 | THE Countryside Commission has funded a massive £9,000 airlift of Lancashire mill glagstones in an effort to stem the problems of serious erosion on four badly affected areas of the Pennine Way . |
| 26 | As for multi-processing , Bull says it has recently woken up to the fact that it has a lead over most of its competitors — the Motorola-based DPX/2 line has supported symmetrical multi-processing with up to four processors for years , and now claims to have cornered a leading 20% share of the symmetrical multi-processing market . |
| 27 | MCCAW Communications , the US cellular radio company in which British Telecom has a 20 per cent stake , has launched a revised $2.9bn bid for LIN Broadcasting . |
| 28 | They were large , costly , rather unreliable and required a dedicated data processing team to support them . |