Example sentences of "a [noun sg] version of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no better luck when he went to Hollywood in the Seventies and attempted ( unsuccessfully ) to produce a number of intriguing projects , including a cinema version of Ian Gibson 's book on the death of Garca Lorca , to have been directed by Francesco Rosi , director of Christ Stopped at Eboli . |
| 2 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 3 | For its own purposes , however , DEC is working on a PEX version of GL for use on its systems . |
| 4 | ACTOR Roger Moore may get a second chance to sing his way to musical stardom in a movie version of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Aspects Of Love . |
| 5 | A movie version of Morrison 's life has been in the works for more than a decade , with male stars from John Travolta to Jason Donovan coveting the lead role and a string of scriptwriters , directors and producers slated for involvement at different times . |
| 6 | He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens . |
| 7 | In the US Microsoft and NEC have followed suit and bundled a beta version of Windows NT . |
| 8 | The parallel system , now in prototype , will run the Chorus/mix operating system from Paris-based outfit Chorus Systemes SA , a microkernel version of Unix SVR4 which was designed from the outset to support distributed shared memory solutions and Multiple Instruction Multiple Data architectures . |
| 9 | Outside its base SVR4.0 kernel activities , UI is still hard at work on on a microkernel version of Unix , which will it hopes will broaden the attraction of Unix to the telecommunications market for example , with its embrace of real-time and parallel systems . |
| 10 | The firm has a non-mainstream product called Jump available for the Mac , but there are no plans for a vanilla version of SAS software on that box . |
| 11 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's European corporate marketing director for personal computers , Fabrizio Gimona , revealed that SCO even offered to develop a custom version of ODT for Olivetti 's latest box — see front page — an offer the Italian company eventually declined . |
| 12 | And Jerry Lee Lewis , who played Iago in a pop version of Othello , alienated Shakespeare purists when , on discovering the corpse in Act V , he exclaimed ; ‘ Great balls of fire ! |
| 13 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc has entered the pen computing market with launch of the PenExec PenTop notebook , a direct result of its strategic alliance with the TE Electronics Grid Systems arm of Tandy Corp : the $3,000 machine comes in a 11.6″ by 9.4″ by 1.6″ 5.5 lbs black magnesium box , and runs for up to three hours of continuous computing , supports PCMCIA ; offers up to 200Mb disk and up to 20Mb main memory ; pre-installed software includes MS-DOS 6.0 , Windows 3.1 and Windows for Pen Computing , and Slate Corp is offering an AST pen essentials package of pen software applications and accessories — LooseLeaf Notetaker , Delrina WinFax Pen , Day-Timer Pen Scheduler and PenBook Business Reference Pages ; the PenExec also comes with a demo version of PenWare Inc 's PenCell spreadsheet ; the machine uses a 25MHz 80386SL and 2Mb RAM and 120Mb disk standard , one Type II PCMCIA slot and one external 3.5″ 1.44Mb floppy drive ; and it includes keyboard with 79 keys as well as the cordless pen . |
| 14 | There is also talk of a Muppet version of Sondheim 's Into The Woods and a new TV series of Dinosaurs . |
| 15 | CrossWind Technologies is expected to take a step backwards at Unix Expo next month and announce a character version of Synchronize , its X-based time/task management tool , the first Motif-based commercial application on the market . |
| 16 | No matter how you achieve it you need expanded memory for a spreadsheet such as SuperCalc or a DOS version of Lotus . |
| 17 | Microsoft has also licensed Windows source code to companies such as Citrix Systems , which will deliver a multiuser version of Windows NT . |
| 18 | ACT Financial Systems Ltd and Hewlett-Packard Co are working on a Unix version of ACT 's Digital Equipment Corp VMS-based credit risk analysis system , Limits . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 20 | SNI says it will release a multi-processing version of VxFS next year . |
| 21 | Some of the well known yachts which have emerged from West in recent years include the quarter-tonner Diamond , the Laurent Giles/Warwick Collins-designed Phantom , the Dubois one tonner Midnight Express , and Rapscallion of Russel a cruising version of Phantom . |
| 22 | He was reduced to playing Uncle Tom in a touring version of Stowe 's Uncle Tom 's Cabin and , in this sense , became something of a prototype . |
| 23 | It looked a bit like a touring version of Orpheus in the Underworld . |
| 24 | INSPECTOR Morse shelves his casebook and becomes a cross-Channel migrant when John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan , above , star in a TV version of Peter Mayle 's bestseller , A Year in Provence . |
| 25 | THE BBC has admitted it may not go ahead with a TV version of Michael Dobbs 's sequel to his political bestseller House of Cards . |
| 26 | The gun itself had been a prop in a film version of Journey 's End in which my father had starred , and when the filming was over he had ‘ forgotten ’ to return the pistol which was still in good working order . |
| 27 | Except for a film version of Leoncavallo 's Pagliacci , his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities . |
| 28 | COMING soon , maybe : a triumph for the gods of chaos , lunacy and bad taste - or , to put it more plainly , a film version of John Kennedy Toole 's wonderfully funny cult novel , A Confederacy of Dunces . |
| 29 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
| 30 | Indeed , if they ever made a film version of Dido 's next book — about mating and motherhood — it would almost certainly carry an X-certificate . |