Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking the habit of a lifetime , he has joined a Commons standing committee . |
| 2 | SunWorld latched on to a rumour circulating in Silicon Valley that says NeXT has completed a Sparc port . |
| 3 | Three-year-old Firefox Communications Ltd , the UK , Birmingham-based supplier of integrated NetWare communications servers , has formed a US company to bring its TCP/IP connectivity solutions to the American market . |
| 4 | Cray Research Inc reports that Queen 's University of Belfast , Northern Ireland , has installed a Cray Y-MP EL entry level supercomputer system : it is the first Cray Research system anywhere in Ireland ; the machine , which lists for between $340,000 and $1.5m , will be used to run simulations in aerodynamics , quantum chemistry combustion modelling and physics and will also be linked to a more powerful Cray installed near Oxford , England . |
| 5 | A fully equipped microscope that is small enough to fit into a pocket has won a BBC Product Design award . |
| 6 | AROMAN Catholic Democrat who supports abortion has won a California State Senate seat in a traditional Republican constituency , thanks to the unintentional help of her bishop . |
| 7 | Only one Irish-owned dog has won a UK title , Ch. |
| 8 | For the astonishing fact is that Malcolm Allison , soccer 's oldest boss at 65 , has revitalised a Bristol Rovers side that had won only two of 16 games before he took over from the sacked Dennis Rofe a month ago . |
| 9 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , also has visited a London hospital for medical opinion about his foot , which is severely frost-bitten and may require a skin graft . |
| 10 | Mr Waddington also announced that he has accepted a Commons home affairs committee recommendation that police officers should not be able to escape disciplinary proceedings by retiring on medical grounds . |
| 11 | Elliott has instructed a London solicitor to seek substantial compensation in a writ issued against Saunders , now playing for Aston Villa , and his former club . |
| 12 | The City council of Amsterdam has instructed a New York lawyer to investigate the possibilities for legal action against Daniel Goldreyer , the restorer of Barnett Newman 's ‘ Who 's afraid of red , yellow and blue III ’ which was badly damaged with a Stanley-knife in 1986 . |
| 13 | OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships . |
| 14 | SCHOOLGIRL Maria Hogan has helped a Liverpool museum win a place in the finals of a national competition . |
| 15 | Santa Clara , California-based Mercury Interactive Corp has opened a UK subsidiary in London : Mercury International UK Ltd will market the firm 's XRunner , an application test suite . |
| 16 | Unesco , the cultural branch of the UN , has opened a Phnom Penh office to monitor and help coordinate this international effort , and an international committee is being established to advise the agency and the Cambodian government . |
| 17 | • Porsche AG has opened a Tokyo office to function initially as an administration centre . |
| 18 | Chaka , who had a series of hits in the Eighties , including the classic I Feel For You , has told a Los Angeles court she has £500,000 debts . |
| 19 | Hoffman has sold a US company to Amersham in exchange for shares . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
| 21 | The Ski Club of Great Britain ( Eaton Square , London ) has bought a Sherpa Steppa . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The bank has called a London meeting of leading share registrars and custodians for next Tuesday to discuss the fall-out from Thursday 's decision by the Stock Exchange council to scrap the £400 million Taurus project . |
| 24 | With the mystery unsolved , TV star John Nettles , who plays the Jersey detective Bergerac , commented : ‘ Everyone on Jersey has become a Miss Marple . ’ |
| 25 | Disaster recovery is suddenly big business , with even users of machines as small as the IBM Corp RS/6000 wanting the security of a share of a back-up system , and Wang Laboratories Inc has introduced a RISC Series Mobile Recovery Service on-site disaster recovery option in the US . |
| 26 | Mercury Interactive Corp , Santa Clara , California , has introduced a Microsoft Corp Windows NT version of its application testing environment , TestRunner : prices start at $3,000 per seat . |
| 27 | If a customer wants to build a Sparc derivative for internal use , it will cost $1,000,000 up-front and a royalty fee of $5-$10 depending on the application . |
| 28 | If a customer wants to build a Sparc derivative for internal use , it will cost $1m up-front and a royalty fee of $5 to $10 depending on the application . |
| 29 | I do n't know how many times my husband has attempted a three-D backdrop effect before , but this method , with its spot-on diagrams , worked first time . |
| 30 | Rabbit admits that its support of Accent has in the past been minimal — now the firm will put all its strength behind its partner , and has appointed a Mr Helmut Weissenbach in Munich to co-ordinate the various European distribution outlets . |