Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 2 | Sales of Unix-based systems are expected to reach 25% of total systems expenditure in Australia by 1994 . |
| 3 | These included an extensive exchange of technical data on new weapons systems , exchange of information on the mobilization of military units , and a ban on military activities involving more than 400,000 troops or 900 tanks more than once every two years . |
| 4 | UNISYS CLAIMS 50% OF OPEN SYSTEMS TRANSACTION PROCESSING |
| 5 | Yul : The Man Who Would Be King is published by Collins , £15. for tabloid arts p 19 |
| 6 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 7 | Total RNA was prepared from various tissues of two month old offspring from transgenic mice lines 6 , 13 , 1 and 14 , as well as an aged-matched non-transgenic ( N-Tg ) mouse . |
| 8 | Currently , earmarked funds represent approximately 5% of total Arts Council monies . |
| 9 | Fees : £200 for academic institutions £400 for industrial and research establishments |
| 10 | The supply from waste/recycled resources is expected to increase to over 70% of regional aggregates consumption by 2011 . |
| 11 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 12 | The remaining government funding requirement was met by sales of national savings certificates to the amount of 2.2 billion . |
| 13 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 14 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
| 15 | They have been replaced by lawyers , academics and people with social sciences degrees . |
| 16 | On May 13 1988 , Computergram Number 928 reported that Hewlett-Packard and Northern Telecom put 50 staff into joint networks operation * * * Samna bought Z-Soft for $4m * * * Commodore showed 68030 board , Unix for Amiga * * * Prime cut 700 jobs * * * Hoskyns would pay £13m for Insight . |
| 17 | The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 was significantly higher in malignant ascites ( 736 ( 213–165 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 16 ( <2–43 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) , and a similar but less pronounced pattern was found for plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 ( 43 ( <6- 140 ) ng ml in malignant ascites v <6 ( <6–28 ) ng/ ml in alcoholic ascites , p<0.05 ) . |
| 18 | The people in rural areas train lines are , are an essential way to move around communities . |
| 19 | In fact , most people in public relations agencies are not highly educated in the fields most likely to be of importance to them in their work . |
| 20 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 21 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 22 | Staff in other personnel sections at Head Office have also been instructed in operating computer terminals to access and update their specific data base files and , within limits , to process information . |
| 23 | While many directors and senior staff in social services departments are professionally qualified social workers , a relatively small proportion of the staff is engaged in social works . |
| 24 | To address the varying needs of staff in different schools inservice sessions and workshop programmes on the following topics were developed and delivered . |
| 25 | This means that the earnings of 18 — 20 year olds have fallen from 74 per cent to 69 per cent of adult wages since 1979 , and these statistics exclude those on wages below £35.00 per week — the situation of many young people on Young Workers Schemes or Youth Training Schemes and the increasing numbers in part-time jobs ( Youthaid Bulletin 27 ) . |
| 26 | During the year , sales to Large Designs Plc totalled £2,015,000 and the amount owing to the company at 31st March 1991 was £493,000 . |
| 27 | To emphasise the continuous nature of career development and the changing aspirations of people at different ages Super has proposed a division into five stages : Growth ( 0–14 years ) ; Exploration ( 15–24 years ) ; Establishment ( 25–44 ) ; Maintenance ( 45–64 years ) ; and Decline ( 65 onwards ) ( Super and Bohn , 1971 ) . |
| 28 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 29 | Application Linking Technology is similar in function to Microsoft Corp 's Object Linking & Embedding specification , which enables users to cut and paste objects , text , spreadsheets , sound , video and graphics between different Windows applications . |
| 30 | Application Linking Technology is similar in function to Microsoft Corp 's Object Linking and Embedding specification , which allows users to cut and paste objects , text , spreadsheets , sound , video and graphics between different Windows applications . |