1.   Mr Lawes and Mr Whatling said they had signed a partnership deal once it became clear how important the find was.

2.   There have been some success stories, particularly where local authorities have entered into partnership deals with private sector agencies.

3.   Other measures, such as the new partnership deals with contractors, have still to make an impact on performance.

4.   Almost four years ago, NBC and ABC stalked out of their partnership deal with baseball when Major League Baseball would not extend their package.

5.   Another accord covered a partnership deal with Mobil Corp.

6.   Baseball went back to NBC and ABC in a partnership Baseball Network deal.

7.   BioBucks is the term used to describe the inflated value of partnership deals that small biotech firms sign with pharmaceutical companies.

8.   But Augustine said any kind of partnership deal is unlikely unless Airbus becomes a private company.

9.   Dynegy stressed that Project Alpha has no resemblance to any of the troublesome partnership or partnerships deals created by Enron.