Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb -s] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My argument here is not on that issue , since the focus of their attention was on Parliament and parliamentary procedure and I want to introduce the other side of reform into the debate — where it has received insufficient attention . |
2 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
3 | But if you put a number that 's bigger than that , or it 's got any decimals to it , then er , you 'll use eight bytes for each number , additional eight bytes for each number . |
4 | The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily . |
5 | The Pacific — and the oceans generally — became the main theatre of the movement 's direct actions , although it has challenged French airfield builders in Antarctica and climbed towering chimney-stacks to plant banners condemning acid rain . |
6 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
7 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
8 | One might imagine , for instance , that it has turned equitable estates and rights into legal estates and rights . |
9 | A complaint made by radical criminology against its conservative counterpart is that it has ignored upper-world crime : fraud , corporate crime and white-collar crime . |
10 | Richardson , Texas-based Micrografx Inc warns that it has uncovered corporate funds mismanagement in its Japanese subsidiary Micrografx , KK which may result in a loss of $500,000 , and it will likely take a provision for the non-recurring loss in the fourth quarter ; the company further realigned its worldwide operations to respond to changes in software purchasing trends and the costs of marketing products and services and expects to report a loss for the fiscal . |
11 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
12 | The shift is so striking that it has led one commentator ( Young 1984 : 22 ) to talk of an explosion of ‘ civic assertiveness ’ . |
13 | There is evidence that it has killed large quantities of worms , crabs , molluscs and starfish . |
14 | One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search . |
15 | That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption . |
16 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
17 | The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out . |
18 | Unicomp Inc , Atlanta , Georgia reports that it has entered substantive negotiations to acquire Software Ireland Ltd , Belfast for just under $5m . |
19 | Replying to reports that it has published misleading SPECmark performance claims for its boxes by using unavailable compiler and pre-compiler technology in its testing ( UX No 378 ) , Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , says the company will use shipped compilers for future SPECfp and SPECint performance benchmarking . |
20 | It is America 's misfortune that it has encouraged standardized mass catering to swamp the country , coast to coast , with the Admass steak and chicken and seafood . |
21 | It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney … |
22 | I 'm hoping that it has worked this time . |
23 | They invent strange reasons for doing so , saying that it has used anti-competitive practices . |
24 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
25 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
26 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
27 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
28 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 . |
29 | Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 . |
30 | Array 's sales and marketing manager Paul Barwick claims that it has sold 50 systems since March and expects to sell 600 by the end of the year — it plans SparcClassic- and Sparcstation 10-compatibles by the end of the year . |