Example sentences of "and [is] [vb pp] [verb] at " in BNC.
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1 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
2 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
3 | Apart from one another in Switzerland ( c/n 208 ) , it is the only cargo jet of its kind in the world , and is designed to operate at or below the noise emission standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . |
4 | Energy cut-out is the second level of safety and is set to operate at 85°C to 90°C to turn off the boiler or other source of heat |
5 | The ozone layer over Europe has already been reduced by 10 per cent in the last ten years , and is expected to decline at an accelerating rate . |
6 | The inquiry runs from Tuesday to Thursday ( 10am-4.30pm ) and Friday ( 10am-2pm ) each week and is expected to last at least two months . |
7 | According to PC Week , the Alpha desktop workstation will include three Turbochannel expansion slots , 16Mb to 128Mb of memory , integrated Ethernet , ISDN and a SCSI controller and is expected to begin at about $18,000 ; the Alpha data centre system , with one to six processors to generate performance ranging from 175 to 900 SPECmarks , offers input-output at 100Mbytes to 400Mbytes per second through a multichannel Futurebus+ and as much as 14Gb of memory , priced at some $200,000 and up . |
8 | This market is currently valued at $6,500m worldwide and is expected to grow at an aggregate annual rate of 13% . |
9 | The press starting running in the summer and is expected to run at a profit by the end of the year . |
10 | Although Sheila finds them a handful and is known to shout at them , she has always sought appropriate help . |
11 | The ignimbrites were collected in a strike-slip rift valley ( 100x15km ) related to the Cordillera Blanca fault system , an important crustal structure which marks the western boundary of the batholith ( Fig. 1 ) and is thought to extend at depth to the source region of the complex . |