Example sentences of "part of a consortium " in BNC.
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| 1 | RCT is part of a consortium led by Dr John Ashworth , director of the London School of Economics , and a second consortium bidding is composed of the technology transfer company BTG 's current management and staff , led by Ian Harvey the group 's chief executive . |
| 2 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 3 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 4 | Westinghouse Electric Corp , Pittsburgh has asked 15 cellular and wireless companies for proposals to build a nationwide wireless data network , the Wall Street Journal reported : the company 's idea is to spur the wireless carriers , individually or as part of a consortium , to develop a network that would make it easier and cheaper for users of laptop and palm-top computers and other devices to send and receive information over the air — and in return , Westinghouse promised to buy a substantial amount of transmission capacity for turn-key communications services that it wants to offer over such a network for various types of companies , such as those that manage large fleets of vehicles and security concerns doing remote monitoring — ‘ We 're trying to get a national packet data network that covers , at a minimum , the 30 largest metropolitan areas , ’ the company declared . |
| 5 | In Peru , the Soviet Union is part of a consortium involved in the Olmos project to bring water across the Andes to irrigate the drought-ridden northern coast . |
| 6 | In the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea , we are part of a consortium that has a 20% interest in the Azeri field , where about 1.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil are thought to exist . |
| 7 | In remote sensing research the department is part of a consortium , led from NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California , which is developing techniques for measuring trace gases in the atmosphere by measuring emitted microwave radiation . |
| 8 | The three councils were part of a consortium of 12 local authorities formed last year to prepare a joint specification of the requirements for a council tax computer system . |
| 9 | The Yarm Road-based metal fabricator could cash in through its parent company , Trafalgar House , part of a consortium bidding for work on the £8bn new Hong Kong airport project . |
| 10 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |