Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 2 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 3 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 4 | It inhabited plateaux and lowlands of the Cretaceous and preyed on duckbilled dinosaurs such as the giant sauropodomorphs . |
| 5 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 6 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 7 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 8 | In 1987 it registered profits of an impressive £6.2 million . |
| 9 | Page 26 Next tumbles : Next 's pre-tax profits nearly halved to £16.2m at the halfway stage as it revealed problems rooted in overexpansion and poor merchandising . |
| 10 | It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups . |
| 11 | It revealed transcripts from ND1 ( 1000n. ) and Cyto b ( 1200n . ) |
| 12 | SHARES in HSBC Holdings , parent of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation , firmed 7p to 602p yesterday after it revealed profits had nearly doubled last year . |
| 13 | It requested donations be sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 14 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 15 | This achieved little , as it asked countries only to try ‘ so far as possible ’ to limit and ‘ gradually reduce and prevent air pollution using the ‘ best available technology which is economically feasible ’ . |
| 16 | In January 1987 , it asked suppliers to increase their productivity by 5% a year , for five years . |
| 17 | It asked governments to abolish nuclear bombs , and wished for the strengthening of the United Nations . |
| 18 | The next antibiotic to be discovered , streptomycin , was of great value because it attacked microbes which were insensitive to penicillin , especially those which caused tuberculosis . |
| 19 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 20 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 21 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 23 | It divided workers from one another , since their earnings might vary widely even within the same establishment , or different types of labour might be paid in entirely different ways . |
| 24 | More ambitiously , it appointed envoys to present their views directly to the politicians . |
| 25 | Specific ideas on which it sought views were that preparatory advice given before the granting of a legal aid order should be claimed and paid for under that order and not the green form scheme , and that welfare benefit entitlement work should either be limited to a fixed fee or excluded altogether . |
| 26 | The plaintiff , acting under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 ‘ to promote or protect the interests of the inhabitants in its area , ’ brought an action for declarations that the dock company and its sublessees operating in the port had created a public nuisance and it sought injunctions restraining them from permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the port between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m . |
| 27 | EDS subsequently bought out Bedaux 's share of EDS-Bedaux and it became EDS Spain . |
| 28 | At first I drank beer because I could n't afford to drink anything else , but then it became Martinis . |
| 29 | It sold dollars at $1.5715 and German marks at DM2.96 . |
| 30 | It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |