Example sentences of "[noun prp] have signed a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swiss foods manufacturing giant Nestle SA has signed a worldwide agreement with Microsoft Corp to standardise its software on Windows : the contract covers a total of 30,000 users and will take a number of months to implement , but no financial terms were available ; software from WordPerfect Corp , Ashton-Tate Corp 's Multimate and Lotus Development Corp 's Lotus 1-2-3 will be replaced with Word 2.0 for Windows and Excel 4.0 ; Nestle will also use Microsoft Mail 3.0 , Microsoft Project 3.0 , Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 , and LAN Manager 2.2 will be the network operating system . |
| 2 | Surrey have signed a new three-year sponsorship package with Foster 's . |
| 3 | Halton council ( comprising the towns of Widnes and Runcorn ) in north-west England has signed a 20-year joint venture with a recently formed waste management company , Biomass Recycling , to reuse 98 per cent of the contents of domestic waste by 1995 . |
| 4 | The bottom line is , of course , that Yorkshire have signed a fine cricketer who is good enough to do well wherever he is either on or off the field . |
| 5 | Souness said : ‘ Mike Hooper has signed a new three year contract and that shows just how highly I rate him . ’ |
| 6 | In May the three former party leaders within the DLP had signed a secret memorandum agreeing to begin moving towards the latter system during 1990 . |
| 7 | ATLANTIC Container Line and Hapag Lloyd have signed a new four-year contract with Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to use the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal even though ACL is for sale . |
| 8 | England 's Premier League and BSkyB have signed a massive £304 million five-year deal to show 60 League games live on Sundays and Mondays , with highlights on the BBC on Saturday nights . |
| 9 | To pick off some of the wandering DEC herd , Hewlett-Packard has signed a joint marketing pact that will put Raxco Inc 's VAX/VMS data centre management products on HP 9000 Series 800 and Series 700 machines : the Rockville , Maryland company has its Security Assessment software immediately available for HP 's 9000s . |
| 10 | In January 1986 , President Reagan had signed a secret directive — ‘ They can run , but they ca n't hide ’ — instructing the octopus to identify terrorists responsible for crimes against American citizens abroad and to bring them to justice in US courts . |
| 11 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 12 | The French power monopoly Electricite de France has signed a joint venture agreement for US cable television operators Tele-Communications Inc , Englewood , Colorado and Lenfest Communications Inc , Pottstown , Pennsylvania to buy a 29% stake in Videopole , in which the electricity company has 51% and Credit Agricole 20% , to install and operate cable systems France-wide . |
| 13 | As the French Ambassador in Japan had signed a written agreement guaranteeing their return this has caused considerable embarrassment and a split between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chancellory ( who are backing the judge ) . |
| 14 | Middlesex have signed a three-year sponsorship agreement , worth over £500,000 , with SmithKline Beecham , the producers of Brylcreem and Lucozade . |
| 15 | HARTLEPOOL United central defender Ian McGuckin has signed a new two-year contract . |
| 16 | Thirteen European countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean have signed a new Convention on Marine Pollution , known in short as the Paris Convention . |
| 17 | Sandia National Laboratories and Dow Corning have signed a cooperative R & D agreement to investigate new silica processing methods . |