Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 2 | The bomb which the IRA left in the hospital is estimated to have contained 20 lb of Semtex . |
| 3 | In contrast to the homespun approach of Chiles , Martinez was believed to have amassed some $7,000,000 to spend on his November campaign , and was expected to use negative tactics . |
| 4 | But just what effect Pringle 's presence was supposed to have eluded most people , and the absence of Lamb , back to his prolific , fighting best on the county circuit , must have been just what the touring team were praying for . |
| 5 | Privately-held Neuron Data , which turned over $1.9m last December expects to have done some $20m in total by its year-end in March . |
| 6 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |
| 7 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 8 | At the next election we need to have persuaded more people to measure their votes against principle rather than tax tables . |
| 9 | The Salsabil company was also said to have supplied false statistics to be used by Egyptian opposition groups . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Toshiba Corp and NEC are thought to have invested some $200m in preparation for development and fabrication of MIPS ' next-generation R5000 and R10000 RISCs ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 11 | To have reached other people 's expectations , would have required a completely different person , not the me I am . |
| 12 | Police were reported on Nov. 13 to have arrested 270 people , including one of four gunmen alleged to have carried out the attack . |
| 13 | The aim of the research is to develop a powerful new estimation method which takes account of the exact mathematical relationship between the behaviour of the discrete data and the underlying continuous time model that is assumed to have generated that data . |
| 14 | The widespread power cuts to factories which had then been necessary had caused nearly 15 per cent of the UK workforce to be laid off and were estimated to have cost some £200 millions of vital production . |
| 15 | A three-day general strike which began on Sept. 26 was reported to have left three people dead and 400 detained . |
| 16 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 17 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 18 | Other severely affected areas were Zambia and Ghana , where cholera was reported to have infected 10,500 people and killed 300 since January . |
| 19 | The need for guidance on restraint has been fed by the intense media attention on lack of control in homes , which is said to have allowed young people to abscond — such as the case of Sally Ann Catell , who was killed last month in Birmingham while driving a stolen car . |
| 20 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 21 | Widespread flooding in Kashmir was reported on Sept. 12 to have killed 220 people [ see p. 39098 for Pakistan flood disaster ] . |
| 22 | On Oct. 25-27 Turkish air sorties against eight villages up to 30 km inside Iraq were reported to have killed 12 people . |
| 23 | Since Jan. 17 the allies were estimated to have flown more than 110,000 sorties and to have lost 36 aircraft in combat ( USA 27 ( plus one helicopter ) , UK six , Kuwait one , Italy one , Saudi Arabia one ) . |
| 24 | Braque had submitted some paintings to the Salon d'Automne in 1908 ( a few of the same paintings which he later showed at Kahnweiler 's ) , and Matisse , who was on the jury , is also said to have described these works as being composed of ‘ petits cubes ’ . |