Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [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 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 .
7 Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes .
8 Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it .
9 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 .
10 Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs .
11 When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance .
12 Once damp has affected walls it deposits hygroscopic salts on the surface , leaving white salty tidemarks which make detection all the easier .
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