Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , an amazing new technique has made it possible to produce an accurate facsimile of Tutankhamun 's mummy which will form the centre-piece of the Exhibition . |
| 2 | He says that the technique has meant they can speed up research time , helping to stay ahead of the field . |
| 3 | The amount that is left after the retailer has paid his overheads is called net profit . |
| 4 | A housewife has asked us if she should pay off her mortgage now , while she can still afford to do so . |
| 5 | FERGIE 'S nanny has quit amid reports that the Duchess has invited her Texan millionaire pal Johnny Bryan to move into her home . |
| 6 | The Duchess has started her own charity aimed at children in need , particularly in Bosnia . |
| 7 | Some of these shots could not be taken today in this , either because building has made them impossible or simply because the crowds who congregate to nowadays to take these shots would detract from the scene . |
| 8 | The construction industry in Northern Ireland is not in a disastrous decline — private house building has maintained its growth rate and has the best record anywhere in the country . |
| 9 | Though Clinton may have clinched most of the Jewish vote with his down-the-line promise to treat Israel more gently than President Bush does , the irony is that , for Jews and gentiles alike , his blatant Big Apple vote-seeking has done nothing to make him look principled or even presidential . |
| 10 | A mere 792 factory inspectors exist to protect 16 million workers in 400,000 work places and agriculture has had its inspectors reduced from 190 in 1979 to 156 in 1988 ( Guardian 16.11.88 ) . |
| 11 | Buick 's turnaround has given its parent , the ailing General Motors ( GM ) , plenty to ponder . |
| 12 | When the photographer has finished we 'll bring out the items to you . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp has upgraded its seven-month-old Tuxedo-based TPframe software to version 1.1 to support a distributed on-line transaction processing environment as well as Oracle , Informix , Sybase and Ingres databases . |
| 14 | Martin Marietta Corp has damaged its credit rating with Standard & Poor 's Corp with its decision to buy General Electric Co 's aerospace unit for about $3,050m , most of it in the form of new debt : the agency cut its rating on the senior debt to single-A from single-A-plus , and affirmed its A-1 commercial paper rating . |
| 15 | Compaq Computer Corp has restructured its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its customer base and to improve support for Compaq resellers : it will reorganise field resources to five from eight regional areas across the US , centralise major support resources for resellers in Houston , and eliminate surplus field employees , although the number to go was not announced . |
| 16 | In the run-up to the single European market next year ( if the Maastricht treaty ever gets ratified ) Oracle Corp has restructured its European operations into four divisions . |
| 17 | Their designs are on the huge non-Sparc market and the glass house on which IBM Corp has loosened its grip . |
| 18 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Cimflex Teknowledge Corp has terminated its agreement to sell the assets of its Automated Factories Division to Flexpack Corp because prospects for the unit deteriorated significantly since the deal was signed . |
| 19 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 20 | Reportedly WordPerfect Corp has withdrawn its support ( UX No 433 ) . |
| 21 | Sony Corp has withdrawn its support of a joint venture desk-top publishing business company , Newscaster , which it formed with printing and publishing company Koei Group in 1988 . |
| 22 | Intergraph Corp has decided it will standardise on Menlo Park , California-based Versant Object Technology Corp 's eponymous object-oriented database , reselling the product and using it in some future products . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp has enhanced its Signalling System 7 product , DECss7 2.3 , designed to enable DEC VAX systems to be used as applications servers in public telecommunications networks : a new entry-level system is now available , and multiple applications programming interfaces can now be used at different levels of the signalling protocol . |
| 24 | 3Com Corp has enhanced its NETBuilder family of internetworking products with features intended to simplify network administration , improve wide area networking links and add new wide area network services for remote internetworking . |
| 25 | NCR Corp has enhanced its Top End mainframe-class , open distributed transaction processing system that enables customers to integrate existing mainframe applications with those running on Unix machines . |
| 26 | Unisys Corp has moved its microprocessor implementation of its basic A-series mainframe architecture up the line and has created new entry-level A Series ‘ openFrame ’ enterprise servers and added software that increases open communications and client-server computing capabilities for existing and new users across the A Series family . |
| 27 | Amdahl Corp has expanded its mainframe Unix offerings with Enterprise File Manager , a system designed to give customers a high-capacity , automated system that centrally stores and manages data in heterogeneous computing environments . |
| 28 | Compaq Computer Corp has lost its senior vice-president and general manager of the Personal Computer Division , Douglas Johns : president and chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer will assume the posts until a permanent replacement can be found . |
| 29 | The Hitachi array is expected to use quirky 6.5 ’ disk drives and is pitched at a market Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp has made its own with its Symmetrix product , which Gartner Group reckons may be taking as much as 10% of the current mainframe disk market . |
| 30 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp has announced its Mbus-based SparcSet chip set , designed by Nimbus Technologies ( UX No 383 ) , for cloners . |