Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this message is unlikely to be one that LDDC highlights when it approaches Whitehall for money , there is no doubting it has shifted its public relations away from targeting solely yuppies and City businessmen . |
| 2 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 4 | THE SLOW DECLINE IN IBM 's TURNOVER BEGINS AS IT LOSES $285m IN QUARTER |
| 5 | THE SLOW DECLINE IN IBM 's TURNOVER BEGINS AS IT LOSES $285m IN QUARTER |
| 6 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 7 | We discover that prayer grows as it keeps pace with the moral and emotional changes within us . |
| 8 | The government of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda came under increasing pressure from Western governments to improve its human rights record as it took action to arrest the pro-democracy campaigner , Chakufwa Chihana , and to expel Mgr John Roche , Roman Catholic bishop-elect of Mzimba . |
| 9 | Regarding differences as to the factual consequences of insider dealing , X may want to prohibit insider dealing because it harms Y ; or , because he believes that it is an inefficient means of allocating scarce resources . |
| 10 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 11 | The statio was closed to BR trains when it became part of Tyne & Wear Metro system . |
| 12 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 13 | This is a small chemical molecule that the yeast produces when it ferments sugar — in the same way that brewer 's yeast produces alcohol . |
| 14 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 15 | New machines , new technology introduced because it cuts production costs can indeed reduce the total demand for labor , that is , for the total number of jobs available in all sectors of the economy taken together at any given price of labor — in other words , at any given wage rate ( Leontief 1978 , 28 ) . |