Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh looks it 's gone a funny colour ! |
| 2 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 3 | NATO says it has completed a huge reduction in its Cold War nuclear arsenal , cutting the number of weapons in Europe by 80pc . |
| 4 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 5 | Schlumberger Ltd says it has formed a joint venture , Advanced Meter Reading Technologies , with Motorola Inc to develop wireless electronics technology for remote and automated reading of water , gas , heat and electricity meters : starting next second quarter , Motorola will manufacture the products , and Schlumberger will provide , market and sell the products and service them . |
| 6 | Taunton , Massachusetts-based Kopin Corp says it has developed a transmissive 640 by 480 active matrix liquid crystal display formed from a single crystal of silicon : the AMLCD Smart Slide imaging device has a resolution of about 500 lines per inch , the level seen as necessary for high resolution imaging . |
| 7 | Redwood Shores , California-based Communication Intelligence Corp says it has signed a joint development agreement with IBM Corp to develop a version of its multilingual Handwriter Recognition System software for the OS/2 Pen operating system extension from IBM 's Personal Software Products Division . |
| 8 | Ask Computer Systems Inc has expanded its Manman/X business information system to include support for the Oracle database and says it has signed a worldwide pact with Oracle Systems Corp to become an Oracle Business Alliance Partner : the two will continue to offer their respective products directly to mutual customers , and maintain separate but co-ordinated support staffs . |
| 9 | Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd . |
| 10 | Blyth Holdings Inc , Foster City , California , says it has closed a private placing , raising $3m from General Reinsurance Corp , representing a 2.7% equity stake on a fully diluted basis at the time of closing . |
| 11 | NCR Corp 's decision to build its entire product line around the Intel Corp iAPX-86 chip family greatly simplifies the effort required to create new models and quickly respond to market requirements , and the company says it has added a single processor version of the System 3450 server with a new low entry-level price and the ability to upgrade to multiprocessing capabilities . |
| 12 | British Telecommunications Plc has placed contracts worth over £4m with Chubb Safe Equipment Co for the supply of high security cash compartments for its payphones : Chubb says it has added a dedicated production line at its Wolverhampton plant for their manufacture . |
| 13 | LanOptics Inc says it has won a three-year , $4.5m contract to provide its BranchNet internetworking hub system to IBM Norway A/S . |
| 14 | Thinking Machines Corp , the Cambridge , Massachusetts manufacturer traditionally of custom chip-based SIMD supercomputers , but more recently of the Sparc-based SIMD/MIMD CM-5 ‘ TeraFLOPS ’ machine , says it has opened a French office near Paris , to support business development and technical marketing activities ; Thinking Machines also has offices in Guildford in Surrey , Munich in Germany , Camerano in Italy , and Driebergen in the Netherlands , from where the European offices are run . |
| 15 | He says it has had a big impact . |
| 16 | It says it 's got a maximum 43% improvement on multitasking user loads . |
| 17 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 18 | Cupertino-based EcoSystems Software Inc reckons it has scored a first with its EcoSphere and EcoTools/Oracle client-server systems management software , the production versions of which are just shipping . |
| 19 | At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group . |
| 20 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |
| 21 | Once in Porthcawl in South Wales I was trying out my hydraulic lectern and discovered it had developed a horrible squeak . |
| 22 | To build it engineers used a new method called parallel widening . |
| 23 | When it had arrived it had needed a separate table just to accommodate it ; luckily the restaurant was n't busy . |
| 24 | Erm I w I , I ca n't really say whether I feel it 's changed a great deal because before I , before I was n't really very closely involved |
| 25 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 26 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 27 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 28 | Multiple personality , Bernice thought , you bet it 's got a multiple personality . |
| 29 | By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status . |
| 30 | I think , possibly people who do n't make it have become a little starstruck . |