Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you turn your key it suddenly clicks and it clicks the thingy forward |
| 2 | On the database side , Unify is currently waiting to see how object technology develops before it makes a move , but is already hard at work on object extensions to its tools , the first of which are expected to emerge next year . |
| 3 | The Woolwich insists that it has no plans to introduce them , while the Abbey National believes that fluctuating payments ‘ show their value in weeks like the one we 've just had ’ . |
| 4 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 5 | LSI will also manufacture an application specific integrated circuit for Newton , and Kyushu Matushita Electric says that it licensed the Newton operating system for use in future products . |
| 6 | The Isle of Wight TEC says that it notified the Department of Employment in August that it might be unable to meet the YT guarantee within the funds allocated for the purpose . |
| 7 | Crilly says that it turns the place into a nightclub , in the Caribbean . |
| 8 | DEC says that it changed the name of VMS to OpenVMS to reflect its X/Open Portability Guide 3 branding , Posix-compliance and its ability to run on several environments as well as VAX and Alpha . |
| 9 | Hewlett says that it expects the pact to generate around $100m of sales over three years . |
| 10 | SFA has historically been active in the defence sector , but this acquisition represents a shift in the company 's emphasis towards providing commercial data communications products and services and for this reason , SFA says that it has no plans to change Datarange 's strategic direction . |
| 11 | She says that it looks a bit out of place in Charlton Kings . |
| 12 | Mr Foster , for the appellants , submits that it means the inhabitants of a particular geographical area . |
| 13 | Each pattern proclaims that it has the solution instead of collaborating in the search . |
| 14 | Now what happens if it gets a bit more complicated , and all it , another way another way of checking this , erm , what would happen |
| 15 | ‘ What happens if it grows every day ? ’ |
| 16 | Purée can be gradually thickened by adding flour , oatmeal , potato , rice , or any staple that the family uses until it reaches the consistency of mashed potato . |
| 17 | The velar nasal , described in Chapter 7 , also raises a lot of analysis problems ; some writers have suggested that the correct analysis is one in which there is no phoneme , and this sound is treated as an allophone of the phoneme that occurs when it precedes the phoneme . |
| 18 | A perusal of the French text shows that it uses the phrase ‘ exigences importantes ’ , which appears to bear a family resemblance to the phrase ‘ exigences impératives ’ used in the french texts of judgments following the Cassis de Dijon case law and rendered into English as ‘ mandatory requirements ’ . |
| 19 | With the wisdom of hindsight and the benefit of several years ' experience , I now see that analysis , particularly involving econometric models , shows that it brings a reduction in employment . |
| 20 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |
| 21 | He wouldn'y take a poke o' soor plooms unless it had a pint o' heavy at the bottom . ’ |
| 22 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 23 | To say that the cat perceives the ball is stuck requires that it has the belief that it is , and this involves its possessing the concepts ‘ ball ’ and ‘ stuck ’ . |
| 24 | The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks . |
| 25 | What happens is this : the heron selects its bait , walks to the water 's edge and waits until it spots a fish . |
| 26 | The Russians themselves have developed a ‘ killer ’ satellite that explodes as it passes a target spacecraft . |
| 27 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 28 | ‘ I think I see something deeper , more infinite , more eternal than the ocean in the expression in the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning , and coos and laughs because it sees the sun shining in its cradle . ’ |
| 29 | This particularly applies where it appears the public is being parted from its money without receiving , or being likely to receive , anything in return . |
| 30 | This can be where the seller feels that it has the bargaining power and will be able to obtain a negotiating advantage by putting forward a document with negligible warranties . |