Example sentences of "a communications [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet assets in Luanda now include a floating dry-dock , a communications station and access for BEAR D aircraft which patrol the South Atlantic sealanes . |
| 2 | Other facilities include an LCD screen of traffic messages received via a communications antenna from radio stations and road-side beacons , plus a navigation system with road maps and traffic information . |
| 3 | By the half-way stage it was apparent to the dimmest Danuese that it was a communications antenna . |
| 4 | Take the time at the gallery to see what a communications satellite looks like at close quarters , or one of the first budget 405-line TV sets sold by Pye in 1938 . |
| 5 | Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year . |
| 6 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , Xinhua announced that the China Great Wall Co. was to launch a communications satellite for Arabsat at the end of 1991 . |
| 7 | If they were , every time you had a communications problem , the answer would be simple . |
| 8 | The Pacific Bell Inc arm of Pacific Telesis Group Inc plans to build a communications highway connecting participating California universities , research labs , major hospitals and leading high-tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles : to be known as the California Research and Education Network or CalRen , the project will use emerging communications switching and transmission technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode in a network capable of carrying voice , data , video and images concurrently between as many as 80 educational , medical and high-tech industrial organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area , and a similar number in the Los Angeles area . |
| 9 | Acer Group Inc yesterday launched its Personal Activity Centre — a communications workstation that unites computing and consumer electronics by including integrated telephony , facsimile , radio , stereo sound , CD-ROM and multimedia capabilities . |
| 10 | It will have a communications structure based on remote procedure call specifications . |
| 11 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 12 | John Nelson , a communications consultant has been examining them on behalf of the Sunday Times and his conclusions are greatly at odds with the story so far . |
| 13 | In 1978 the Nora-Minc report suggested the formation of a Communications Ministry . ’ |
| 14 | It includes three main elements : the spread of the market system ; the spread of a communications system ; and the penetration of national institutions . |
| 15 | In a communications system , the source of infra-red radiation may be an infra-red l.e.d. or a laser . |
| 16 | By a government licence under the Act , Mercury Communications , a private company , was authorized to establish a communications system . |
| 17 | In conjunction with this they produced a communications system designed to offload the text onto a host computer with the maximum possible reliability . |
| 18 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |
| 19 | There could be a communications system linking some users via a satellite , or equally well , simply a program running on the same computer as itself . |
| 20 | In another case , Burrough 's Corporation ( Perkin 's ) Application [ 1974 ] , computer programs controlled the transmission of data to terminals from a central computer ( a communications system ) . |
| 21 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 22 | Muslim-controlled Sarajevo radio reported that Serbs also launched attacks on Brcko and Gradacac , towns in a communications corridor the rebels are trying to establish across northern Bosnia . |
| 23 | Few Zambians other than Mr Vibetti questioned the use of government finance to subsidize a communications medium whose main output was then mostly imported and often in conflict with the values both of its audience and of the government that financed it . |
| 24 | This is all the more important because multimedia is not a discrete technology or a communications medium in itself and could potentially have an important role in many different industry sectors . |
| 25 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 26 | There is a communications port for optional cellular and other wireless modules , and a type 2 PCMCIA slot ( two in the EO 880 ) for future expansion . |
| 27 | Access to external services and to Brunel University are accessed via a communications processor . |
| 28 | The three main systems , ie the minicomputer , the teaching LAN and the HELP system are linked via a communications processor , which also provides controlled access to external services via PSS , and to Brunel University via a direct line . |
| 29 | Philosophers of technology talk of a communications revolution . |
| 30 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |