Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] is [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 2 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 3 | Euro MP Stephen Hughes is taking up the case of lorry driver Bob Elder , 47 , of South View , Tantobie , Stanley , who faces financial ruin because his truck has been impounded after he was involved in a fatal accident in Italy . |
| 4 | WITH Christmas in mind BBC Video is rushing out the Michael Palin 's current TV odyssey Pole To Pole on December 10 . |
| 5 | Rugby League has always bred fine sportsmen and Garry Schofield is carrying on the tradition . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 7 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 8 | Luton Town is slipping down the table however ; they lost at Coventry in mid-week and went down one nil at home to Norwich this afternoon , Sherwood on target for the Canaries . |
| 9 | And now actress Sharon Stone is pulling back the sheets on her sexploits during the filming of the raunchy movies that have made her famous . |
| 10 | David Baker from Mercury Rev is checking out the soon-to-be-signed-to-Geffen St Johnny ; Sonic Youth are hanging out with Cell , no doubt priming the newcomers for their forthcoming Euro jaunt with the Yoof ; and Canadian lungers Sloan fall victim to the complimentary charm of the Lemonheads ' Evan Dando . |
| 11 | Cathy Gunn is going down the catwalk in cashmere and has selected Dawson International . |
| 12 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 13 | PAUL McGRATH is lining up the ultimate act of revenge against former boss Alex Ferguson — by snatching the title away from the Manchester United manager . |
| 14 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 15 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |