Example sentences of "a [noun] drive " in BNC.

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1 The programs required would fit comfortably on 20 megabytes of the harddisk , so a 40Mb drive would be adequate for the task and leave plenty of storage space for current files .
2 A : I 've consulted my source of reference , the ever handy SpinRite , and this tells me that the Tandon TM262 was a 3.5-inch drive , not a 5.25-inch one .
3 They took the couple , from Norwich , on a 180mile drive before dumping them near Lyon six hours later .
4 Members of the Women 's Institute are holding a domino drive in Newbiggin village hall on Thursday February 27 at 7.30pm .
5 Plans have also been made to hold a domino drive on April 3 at 7.30pm .
6 A domino drive will be held at the village hall tomorrow .
7 All the way , on the back seat of the long bus , Gaily smoked a Park Drive and thought about death and dying .
8 The Packard Bell MPC is a 486SX/25 PC with a 105MB hard drive , two floppy disk drives , a CDROM drive , 4MB RAM , a SoundBlaster Pro II card , Roland stereo speakers and a SuperVGA colour monitor .
9 The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden .
10 A gravel drive — Quinn had heard the crunching of the gravel — about ten yards from front gate to garage doors , automatic door-opening system , integral garage ; a house with a concrete cellar beneath it — the estate agents could help here .
11 How is a gravel drive laid ?
12 A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house .
13 And if you show it the sweep of a gravel drive framed by cypresses and a manicured lawn , it will usher you elegantly to the ball .
14 Er it might be putting a sign up on the , on the fence saying beware of the dog , it might be having a gravel drive .
15 She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner .
16 From the narrow approach lane a gravel drive swung round to the side door of the inn , and then continued , dwindling , to the rear , where there was a brick garage and a half-grassy car park .
17 The driving power was provided by a slowly descending weight hanging from a cord wound round the axle , this being the earliest instance known of a weight drive in a clock .
18 Rose was caught by Rory Guthrie off Connor O'Brien for 30 at 103 , and a mishit drive accounted for McQuay , who had scored 32 , three runs later .
19 It 's true that Atari is offering a card drive for desktop PCs , and battery-backed add-in memory cards , but these cost over £1 per kilobyte .
20 She wondered then , since Ven was proving so elusive , whether she should take the opportunity on what she estimated would be just under a hundred-mile drive to Prague to get in there with some of Cara 's questions .
21 RALLY ace Miles Johnston started his 1992 season with a fighting drive to sixth place on the Riponian stages event at the weekend .
22 A tape drive or CD-ROM is required for local install .
23 The Unix and SCSI kit with a 200Mb drive is $4,175 .
24 You might want a 5.25-inch drive too , but it 's a luxury .
25 There 's room to add a 5.25-inch drive and a CD-ROM to the existing 3.5-inch floppy drive .
26 All the innards are easily accessible and there 's space for a 5.25-inch drive or CD-ROM .
27 The first goal went to Grimsby 's Tony Rees , who left Swindon helpless with a curling drive from the edge of the box .
28 In August they objected to a Battle of Britain parade , which they regarded as a recruiting drive for the ‘ occupying armed forces ’ .
29 Eventually , I got a job as bank clerk in London when the banks went on a recruiting drive in Ireland .
30 He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory .
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