Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb mod] [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The mother ship of Japan 's four-vessel whaling fleet left yesterday for the Antarctic , where officials say it will catch 300 whales in the third year of a controversial research programme . |
2 | Mr Taylor says it would release six constables for other duties and told the committee : ‘ We do know that some forces have undergone civilianisation of these posts . |
3 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
4 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
5 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |
6 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
7 | THE United Nations dealt a new blow to the starving millions in Somalia last night by saying it could take three weeks to stop bandits raiding food supplies . |
8 | Echo Logic is n't rushing towards the Intel iAPX-86 market , estimating it would take nine months and four or five dedicated folks working on it . |
9 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
10 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
11 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
12 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
13 | she never said how much the pound was worth , well I I do n't think it would cover five pence piece . |
14 | Cos I do n't think it 'll reach three pallets high . |
15 | But with modern processing equipment , Marine Mining , the company behind the project , thinks it will obtain 1 kg of pure tin for every 2 tonnes of waste dredged from the sea bed . |
16 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
17 | Any character carrying it will gain +10 bonuses to WS and BS so long as the book is kept next to the skin . |
18 | The new components will be provided in Open Interface as additional libraries — Perez estimates it will take three months to package each new library into the environment . |
19 | You said it might make two sheets . |
20 | The farmer said it would cost three dollars , but the girl had only thirty cents . |
21 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
22 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
23 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |
24 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
25 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |
26 | And experts estimate it will take 1,000 tons of rock to fill the 12ft-square hole . |
27 | Unions are hoping it could persuade one company to have a change of heart over plans for a pay freeze for some of it 's workers . |
28 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
29 | UK-based Salford Software Ltd , Salford , is offering a Fortran compiler for Microsoft Corp Windows NT on Intel Corp platforms : FTN77 will be available by the middle of this month — the company claims it will compile 55,000 line of code per minute on a 33MHz 80486 box running developer versions of NT . |
30 | Japan 's fisheries agency claims it can kill 2,000 minke whales a year without harming the survival of the species , and it recently launched an advertising campaign on the benefits of whale meat . |