Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
2 | THE Western Health Board has denied that it plans to close the accident and emergency unit at the Tyrone County Hospital . |
3 | The Slovak government has also announced that it plans to privatize the power station when the project is completed . |
4 | Today the department of transport said only that it ontinues to support the council 's road safety measures . |
5 | Britain never adopted the terms of the Convention because the Government Actuary considered that it threatened to usurp the husband 's responsibility to provide for his family and because it would have resulted in the payment of higher National Health Insurance ( NHI ) contributions . |
6 | If the Tories ' supporters in 1970 had liked the sound of anti-union radicalism , a significant number had decided by 1974 that it threatened to bring the house down around their ears . |
7 | Our father , Fa , was an agent for India 's Inland Navigation so that we ( our mother , Mam , my three sisters , Jon , Nancy and Rose , and I ) lived on the banks of Assam 's and Bengal 's great rivers , sometimes two miles wide , flowing through land so flat that it seemed to meet the sky all round like an inverted bowl . |
8 | There should be an ongoing process of evaluation as the programme develops to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the students and employers and enables the students to achieve its objectives . |
9 | But perhaps the most surprising " own goal " scored by the Command was the length of time that it took to appreciate the value of Radio Countermeasures ( RCM ) . |
10 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
11 | The voice is still languishing , wasted in its rumpled bed , but the guitar is up with the sun , out the window and scaling such dizzy heights that it manages to drag the chorus into a deliciously wounded country yodel . |
12 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
13 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
14 | My understanding of the Bill is that it seeks to improve the inspection performance of the worst authorities in the country by insisting on a minimum number of regular inspections of schools . |
15 | [ … ] In passing , it should be noted that the conceptual framework developed by Williamson claims to provide an explanation of organizational forms in general , in that it seeks to explain the circumstances in which a variety of institutional forms — including classical market contracts , non-standard market contracts , government regulatory agencies , and trades unions — have , in turn , a comparative advantage in the organization of resources . |
16 | The significance of this ability is that it helps to identify the surfaces of things . |
17 | Retributivism justifies punishment on the ground that it is deserved by the offender ; reductivism justifies punishment on the ground that it helps to reduce the incidence of crime . |
18 | This activity is doubly advantageous in that it helps to meet the needs of the more elderly for a variety of services and also helps to give the younger elderly person a sense of usefulness , a strong interest and in some cases a degree of insight and preparation for the inevitable transition to a greater ageing that must be faced . |
19 | The case against it is precisely that it purports to explain the whole of history and , for that matter , of pre-history , by reference to a total system , and so denies to any of its implicated parts ( social , economic , racial , geographical , religious and so on ) as well as to the actions of its great or good men any separate authenticity . |
20 | It will work for words of any length and comes with a 64,000 word file that it uses to solve the problem . |
21 | The SDPP said that it planned to challenge the vote in the Constitutional Court , which had overturned similar legislation in March 1989 [ see pp. 36528 ; 37592-93 ] . |
22 | The West German government on Dec. 6 announced that it planned to reduce the size of its armed forces to 420,000 by 1995 , a reduction of 75,000 , or 15 per cent . |
23 | The Panama Canal Commission said in Washington yesterday that it planned to reopen the waterway for daylight transit today . |
24 | The best that can be said for the education available for the children of the eighteenth-century poor is that it managed to maintain the levels of the later seventeenth century . |
25 | The most respectable description of the bronze figure would be that it appeared to represent the Goddess of Fertility . |
26 | Can the Secretary of State confirm that , notwithstanding the encouraging programme that he has just reported , Nuclear Electric 's directors could not continue to pay the £1 million per day that it costs to continue the Sizewell B construction project if they were not covered by a letter of comfort from the Treasury , without which the company would be technically insolvent ? |
27 | In Germany , the Bundespost Telekom 's argument is that it has to complete the reconstruction of eastern Germany 's telecommunications infrastructure before it can allow competition , Vallance said . |
28 | But Germany must be aware that it has to keep the balance in Europe , ’ Mr Mitterrand said following talks with Mr Hans Modrow , the East German Prime Minister . |
29 | Viewed in the long term , the importance of the Expenditure Committee was that it helped to persuade the Commons as a whole of the need for a more comprehensive effort to review the processes of public administration . |
30 | The ministry yesterday confirmed that it intended to slaughter the birds . |