Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pos pn] computer " in BNC.
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| 1 | I switched on my computer , which gave me access to the prices of all the stocks listed , to price movements of the market as a whole and of individual sectors — a splendid toy , and an essential one . |
| 2 | I switched on my computer and pissed around on it — and put the new PSB 's CD on in the background . |
| 3 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 4 | Control Data Corp last week announced plans to spin off its computer systems arm into a new company , Control Data Systems Inc , and rename the software and computer services rump of the company Ceridian Corp . |
| 5 | At ten o'clock he switched off his computer and put away his books . |
| 6 | It set up its computer division in 1984 , as soon as it was allowed to . |
| 7 | He is credited with forcing Gen Noriega to remove a portrait of Adolf Hitler from the wall of his secret bunker , training the dictator 's personal bodyguard , setting up his computer networks and complex personal banking system , and establishing a small and private intelligence team to watch over the Panamanian secret police and military intelligence . |
| 8 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
| 9 | Most of the components that make up your computer are delicate and do n't take too kindly to being taken apart . |
| 10 | To begin with there is the DOS SHELL , ( also known as the FRONT END ) which is a graphical user interface , ( or GUI ) and this is most likely to be the screen you first encounter when you switch on your computer . |