Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 2 | DG says it has 15,000 AViiON servers in the field . |
| 3 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 4 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 5 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 6 | You can shape it using traditional hand tools such as rasps and spokeshaves . |
| 7 | In the UK , Cambridge-based CadCentre 's GNC Plus is to support Hewlett-Packard 's 9000 series 700 workstations : GNC Plus , its Unix Cam package it allows CAD-generated component designs to be turned directly into machining programs for NC/CNC tools . |
| 8 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 9 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 10 | The electricity supply industry and others use it to insulate high-voltage circuit breakers and cables . |
| 11 | Tory Darlington councillor Peter Jones hit out at the show after hearing it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic , and a simulated sex act . |
| 12 | I think it means they 're all just older family , I do n't think it means six year olds . |
| 13 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 14 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 15 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 16 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 17 | The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses . |
| 18 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 19 | A top critic , Jeffrey Taylor of The Mail on Sunday , saw rehearsals of the ballet , and said it contained erotic love scenes . |
| 20 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |
| 21 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 22 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |