Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
| 2 | YOUNG pretenders Curtis Robb and David Grindley last night discovered that it 's tough at the very top . |
| 3 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 4 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 6 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week announced that it has expanded the number of software and communications products offered under its Distributed Computing Model to the DPX/20 Unix and DPS GCOS systems , and it introduced two new models of the DPX/20 , based on IBM 's Power RISC architecture . |
| 7 | As anticipated , Unix Systems Laboratories Inc last week announced that it was joining X/Open Ltd under the new technical membership structure the consortium put in place in October . |
| 8 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 9 | In a bizarre twist in the saga of the failure of Supercomputer Systems Inc , the company last week announced that it had abandoned efforts to find new investors to keep the company alive — and then Steve Chen immediately announced that he was forming a new company that will seek to create the world 's fastest computer . |
| 10 | Although French Unix distributor TopLog International SA has n't officially signed-off on a deal with Univel Inc to market UnixWare ( UX No 400 ) in Europe , the Paris-based company last week said that it is forming a new company , Newnix , to handle its Unix and UnixWare business from November , after the paper is inked . |
| 11 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 12 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |