Example sentences of "[noun sg] says it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raytheon says it is reviewing the entire operation at Broughton and will notify the workforce of the results in due course . |
| 2 | Bethpage , New York-based defence electronics and aircraft manufacturer Grumman Corp says it is looking for an acquisition in the electronics , systems integration , or data systems areas — but it must be the right fit at the right price and the company ‘ wo n't force it . ’ |
| 3 | Having finally decided that it does want to get into the merchant semiconductor market , IBM Corp says it is looking to arrange a number of semiconductor industry alliances , with the aim of becoming a world top 10 company in chip sales . |
| 4 | General Instrument Corp says it is pursuing a two-part programme designed to reduce its interest expenses substantially . |
| 5 | Acer America Corp says it is shipping AcerFrame 500 , an entry-level , diskless Intel Corp 80486-based , EISA server for up to 40 users : with 4Mb RAM , eight slots , SCSI II channel and floppy drive , it runs SCO Unix , OS/2 , NetWare , MS-DOS and NT ( when it arrives ) and starts at $2,300 . |
| 6 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 7 | ‘ Mum says it 's to keep our bodies an' souls together till suppertime . |
| 8 | Xerox Corp 's XSoft document management software division says it is opening new sales and services centres in London , Zurich , Dusseldorf and Paris . |
| 9 | Xerox Corp 's XSoft document management software division says it is opening new sales and services centres in London , Zurich , Dusseldorf and Paris . |
| 10 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 11 | For its next investment , AT&T Co says it is looking to buy into an information services company providing things like news , share price quotes and sports statistics , but the company declined to name prospective partners , saying any deal is far from closing . |
| 12 | AT&T Co says it is studying a device that would turn an ordinary television set into a terminal that could call up films , shows and information or act as a video telephone , but it insisted that it is only in the prototype phase and denied a Los Angeles Times story that a field test of the technology would be announced next month ; it would neither confirm nor deny that it is teaming up with BellSouth Corp and Viacom International Inc in the interactive television work . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co says it 's exploring the notion of porting Microsoft Corp 's NT to its PA-RISC chip . |
| 14 | But the council says it 's breaking planning regulations . |
| 15 | The council says it 's trying to save money , and is merely proposing to bring church schools into line with other state schools . |
| 16 | But the local council says it 's doing all it can within a limited budget . |
| 17 | Sun says it is getting 36MHz chips in high volumes . |
| 18 | Sun says it 's built ‘ a couple hundred ’ Viking so far . |
| 19 | ( Sun says it 's getting 50MHz parts now . ) |
| 20 | One group says it is to do with social deprivation , and the other blames people 's lifestyle , saying they eat badly and smoke and drink too much . |
| 21 | The Deeside group says it is doing nothing wrong and that there are no laws to prohibit collecting cockles , which have flourished on the beach . |
| 22 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 23 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is to complete its cable television network in the Westminster district of London by 1995 under undertakings given to the government as part of a review of its licence for the area : some 120,000 homes in Westminster , the only area in the UK where the company is licensed to offer television service over its phone network , will have access to the service on completion , Reuter notes ; the company hopes to be allowed to run TV throughout its network from 1997 . |
| 24 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 25 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 26 | We 're trying to raise the question — ‘ who is responsible , who would I sue if all my children died in a camp on the Thai-Kampuchia border , who would be liable for , for those deaths , er If I 'm there totally dependent on food aid , and the international community says it 's feeding me and they 're not ? ’ |
| 27 | An Oxfordshire branch of a travel agency which has announced it 's going out of business says it 's continuing to trade . |
| 28 | They verify that is coming from where the person says it 's coming . |
| 29 | Southwestern Bell Corp 's mobile phone unit operating under the Cellular One umbrella says it is starting a 4,000-customer , eight-week trial of its digital cellular phone service in the Chicago area . |
| 30 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |