Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Enabling technologies include the Bull Product Data Management System , which it says applies concurrent engineering to cut down design-to-manufacturing time and reduce costs , and ‘ integration enablers ’ , which Bull says connect two or more manufacturing applications ‘ without the time and cost of customized development ’ .
2 This is because the barn is often the largest of the non-domestic buildings of the farmstead and the large volume which it encloses offers many options for the creation of a comfortable and characterful dwelling .
3 Fife College of Technology in Kirkcaldy signed a partnership agreement with Dundee University , which it argues has far-reaching implications for Scottish higher education .
4 Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal .
5 Each authority will be responding to its local conditions , the numbers of SSD homes it has kept in reserve to manage the market , the extent to which it has created quasi-independent trusts , and the number of private beds in its locality .
6 Its parallel body , the Emerging Issues Task Force , is notable for the way in which it has taken anticipatory action in time to head off expected abuses .
7 As expected , Ericsson tosses in major parts of its Telecommunications Management and Operations Support family , of which it has sold 65 systems .
8 In the discount market the Bank of England takes advantage of day-to-day flows of funds between the public and private sectors to indicate the way in which it wishes to see short-term interest rates move .
9 The company remains committed to worldwide annual spending of about $5 billion in 1993 and 1994 on projects which it expects to yield good returns in future , even if present lacklustre oil market conditions persist .
10 And Oracle is already talking about Oracle 8 , which it expects to add object-oriented extensions to SQL and due to be announced in December of next year .
11 They will pay whatever it takes to get Scots crayfish and Dublin Bay prawns into the shops and restaurants in beautiful condition , when no one back home can be bothered .
12 ‘ You may be prepared to do whatever it takes to get this house , but I 'm prepared to do whatever 's necessary to ensure that Thomas remains in my care . ’
13 Sir Keith Joseph echoed the view of his predecessors and successors when he declared in 1984 , " History , properly taught , justifies its place in the curriculum by what it does to prepare all pupils for the responsibilities of citizenship . "
14 I want to be a rich young man , if wealth is what it takes to buy this feeling ; a young lord leaving the city after a night of riot …
15 And although this particular episode in the end solved no major scientific problem , it serves a crucial role in bringing to light the many aspects of what science is all about and what it means to do good science .
16 Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any .
17 But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences .
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