Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | The US company will retain its European software headquarters in Galway , employing only 350 of the current workforce of almost 1,200 . |
2 | In fact 125,000 were made by the sports goods specialists , A.G.Spalding and although heavy and bulky even for its 1.5 x 1.5m ( 5 ft.sq. ) dimensions , any survivors are treated with great reverence and are highly valued by their collectors . |
3 | Its Professional Services people will pursue users that require customisation and office information systems integration . |
4 | Its Professional Services people will pursue users that require customisation and OIS integration . |
5 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
6 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
7 | It is also laying off 230 of its 750 Coventry staff . |
8 | We hear Sun Microsystems Inc will be raising prices on all its old boxes 20% to 30% in mid-March . |
9 | NCR Corp has enhanced its Top End mainframe-class , open distributed transaction processing system that enables customers to integrate existing mainframe applications with those running on Unix machines . |
10 | Whitbread generates half of its free trade sales in the South . |
11 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
12 | BT was condemned for its high pressure sales techniques on the day its profits slipped to just £65 a second . |
13 | NEC Corp expects personal computer shipments in 1993-94 to increase by 10% to 1.37m units as a result of the government 's increased spending on computers for schools and public institutions : according to Reuter , NEC sees its personal computer sales rising in the second half of the fiscal when public institutions start to introduce the machines ; in the year to March , NEC 's personal computer shipments were down by 5% . |
14 | The Center for Media and Values is best known for its quarterly magazine Media & Values , which has received support from WACC in past years . |
15 | BARCLAYCARD has overtaken Access as Britain 's most flexible friend by keeping its annual fee £2 cheaper at £10 and charging lower monthly interest . |
16 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
17 | First , Toshiba demonstrated its AND-based DynaPad 3lb pen computer . |
18 | This manoeuvre , followed by the resignations of the representatives of Vojvodina and Montenegro , and the dismissal of the Kosovo representative , appeared to be a ploy by which to force the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA , with its Serb-dominated officer corps ) to intervene and take over authority at federal level . |
19 | There is a minor problem with IC3 , which is its unusual 12-pin d.i.l. encapsulation . |
20 | BellSouth Corp has teamed up with Wellfleet Communications Inc to market high-speed network systems and services to link multi-vendor local area networks over BellSouth 's Frame Relay and its Switched Multimegabit Data Services . |
21 | BARCLAYS Bank has spent more than £5m equipping its 1,500 sales staff with laptop computers it claims will limit the likelihood of clients being given unsuitable advice . |
22 | Plus ecological background with emphasis on its deep water fauna . |
23 | Hamlyn continues its All Colour series with volumes on Herbs and Aromatics and Greenhouse Gardening . |
24 | Telephone bids ( presumably from Italian buyers ) rocketed Keeley Halswelle 's ‘ The Quack Doctor of the Piazza Rotonda , Rome ’ from its revised estimate £8–12,000 ( originally £5–7,000 ) to £27,000 ( $40,500 ) to a surprised room at Sotheby 's . |
25 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both Planning Research Corp and its rival Control Data Systems Inc . |
26 | Up until then the beleaguered Addamax stood to win no matter how the government decided since it was being bid by both PRC and its rival Control Data Systems . |
27 | BBC Books has struck a lucrative lode with tie-ins to its estimable television series ‘ Gardeners ’ World . ’ |
28 | JAGUAR is backing its luxury car sales in the US with an unprecedented 30-day money-back guarantee . |
29 | Our sales team achieved its budgeted contract sales requirement and in Roland Huggett ( and possibly one other ? ) a Chief Prize winner . |
30 | No secret was made of the fact that the government bureaucracy was guided in everything it did by the CPSU bureaucracy , the Secretariat : ‘ The CPSU , and particularly its full time staff , monopolizes the processes of generating and controlling political power in the USSR , transmitting its binding decisions to elites in state and public organizations through its territorial party committees and primary organizations ’ ( Barghoorn and Remington , 1986 , p. 305 ) . |