Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 2 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 3 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 4 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 5 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | In common with these base emotions it receives general condemnation as an anti-social force which , by its very nature , is inherently immoral and despicable . |
| 7 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 8 | After two years it has strategic alliances with DEC , HP , IBM , NCR , SGI and Sun , 100 customers , 500 development seats , 10,000 run-times out and 10,000 deployed applications . |
| 9 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 10 | Whatever it is called , in many ways it has more going for it than Greenness and can even incorporate it . |
| 11 | Much of America 's apparent lead in intelligence technology and the vast sums it spends each year on these organisations has been negated by the large number of spies and traitors continually found within them . |
| 12 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 13 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 14 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 15 | For obvious reasons it has special appeal for those who , on either political or temperamental grounds , feel a need to justify such institutions as chattel slavery , colonial domination , or any other of the cruder forms of economic exploitation . |
| 16 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |
| 17 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 18 | At times it brings woman-centred feminism into alliance with postfeminist discourses , in which gender politics are similarly softpedalled . |
| 19 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 20 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 21 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 22 | Once damp has affected walls it deposits hygroscopic salts on the surface , leaving white salty tidemarks which make detection all the easier . |