Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it really so important that it had to take priority over something as necessary as post , which often contains faxes and other mail urgently required . |
| 2 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 3 | In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " . |
| 4 | The state government , dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , had on Oct. 11 acquired 1.12 hectares of land around the shrine , saying that it wished to provide services for tourists and pilgrims . |
| 5 | British Aerospace enjoyed an early 10-point run up to 310p on news that it hopes to raise £400m from plant and site disposals . |
| 6 | One principal advantage of an integrated approach is that it helps to spread employment throughout the year rather than to be concentrated in peak periods . |
| 7 | Later in October the government confirmed a change in cocoa marketing strategy , saying that it planned to sell cocoa in relatively small quantities through the London market , with the aim of stimulating competition and securing an increase in prices , rather than seeking to obtain large-scale contracts with overseas buyers [ for January 1989 cocoa deal with French trading house see p. 36413 ] . |
| 8 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 9 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 10 | ‘ We were pleased with the way our campaign went , and we are sure that it helped to improve sales at a difficult time . ’ |
| 11 | The dispute had begun in April 1989 when Pittston announced that it intended to cut costs by withdrawing from the Association of Coalmine Operators , the body responsible for negotiating labour contracts with the UMW on an industry-wide basis and for providing health and pension benefits . |
| 12 | In one of the bloodiest weeks in its history , the BBC announced that it intended to cut jobs by more than 1,000 . |
| 13 | The firm may be market-seeking , in the sense that it wishes to gain access to more customers and consumers . |
| 14 | Alternatively , it may be resource-seeking , in the sense that it wishes to gain access to raw materials that are not readily available without investment . |
| 15 | The local and wide area networking company says that it intends to merge Adaptive with its Network Applications Division , which is to focus on the development and manufacturing of local area network , internetworking and broadband products . |
| 16 | One problem which remains , even in Dearlove 's formulation , however , is that it tends to present options in rather too clear-cut a fashion . |
| 17 | Yet the advice to surgeons about ways in which transmission of these viruses might be avoided during operative procedures is deficient in that it fails to mention techniques of monitoring any breaches in the integrity of the barrier between the patient and surgeon . |
| 18 | Another serious objection to this HCF kind of approach is that it fails to prepare pupils for the real world , helping them to appreciate the strength of religious conviction and extend to people of all kinds of religious persuasion , including those dubbed as " fundamentalist " or " extremist " , real empathy and desire to understand their positions . |
| 19 | Like the third objection to the HCF model , the fourth is that it fails to prepare pupils for the pluralist world with its confusions , contradictions and instability . |
| 20 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 21 | NCube Inc , Foster City , California says that it expects to win agreement within three months for one of Japan 's Big Three mainframe manufacturers to start marketing its massively parallel machines , and suggests that Siemens AG may also adopt them for marketing in Europe . |
| 22 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 23 | WaveLAN is also approved for use in Switzerland , and NCR says that it expects to gain approval in France next month , with other countries following afterwards . |
| 24 | It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis . |
| 25 | It stresses that it wants to keep rules to a minimum , but argues that the Community has to do something to help its weaker parts adapt to a single market and to meet workers ' worries about what 1992 will mean for them . |
| 26 | More significant could be that it wants to guarantee supplies of ore to its tin smelter — the only one in Britain at Capper Pass , near Hull . |
| 27 | Since its inception in the early 1970s , genetic engineering has been welcomed as a major scientific breakthrough because of the potential that it provides to manipulate organisms from the most simple life-forms , such as bacteria , to the most complex , including Homo sapiens sapiens . |
| 28 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 29 | To begin with , its uses are somewhat limited by its bland taste — even enthusiasts agree that it needs to absorb flavours in a recipe such as a stir-fry or casserole to draw out its best qualities : though arguably it has slightly more taste and texture than tofu , tempeh and TVP . |