Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a feature of it , do n't just stick it into a piece of furniture and hope it will look right . |
| 2 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 3 | ‘ The only kind of central heating possible would be solid fuel and to install it would cost more than the cottage is worth . ’ |
| 4 | ICL is to offer a shrink-wrapped version of Unix SVR4 on its so-called ‘ Spring Collection ’ of deskside and desktop Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers and servers launched recently , and says it may offer that implementation on other manufacturers ' PCs too . |
| 5 | Sequent is now a Microsoft Solutions Channel Partner and says it 'll licence other Microsoft connectivity and system management tools for the WinServers . |
| 6 | POSC has licensed OpenODB and UniSQL documentation after evaluating 29 submissions to its request for proposal , and says it 'll publish initial SIP specifications next year so that vendors can begin upgrading their products or developing new ones to its specification . |
| 7 | It will hold stock and spares and says it could get first machines as early as September from its US parent . |
| 8 | The company envisages person-to-person communicators that combine cellular phone , facsimile machine , modem and pen-based computer into a single portable communications unit , and says it will announce specific product plans by the end of the year . |
| 9 | Sequent is now a Microsoft Solutions Channel Partner and says it will license other Microsoft communications and system management tools for the WinServers . |
| 10 | He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled . |
| 11 | I saw this little cutting and thought it might encourage some of us who have passed our sell by date stage . |
| 12 | Therefore as the slow drying colour dries and shrinks it will crack any already dry and contracted colour on top of it . |
| 13 | Therefore as the slow drying colour dries and shrinks it will crack any already dry and contracted colour on top of it . |
| 14 | Researchers at Edinburgh University 's Centre for Speech Technology yesterday announced the development of software to convert text into speech electronically in all nine official European Community languages , and said it would create quality-controlled pronunciation dictionaries of all Community city , town , street , family and product names in machine-readable form . |
| 15 | The thermometer was reading over 100° Centigrade , but Harvey had fiddled with the stove and said it would get hot in a moment . |
| 16 | Mr McFall held up a penknife with a three-inch blade and said it could exact terrible injuries and that post-mortem examinations last year at the department of forensic medicine and science at Glasgow University showed that in 18 out of 31 stabbings , the wound was three inches or less . |
| 17 | Council leader John Williams said he fully supported the scheme and hoped it would attract more tourists to the area . |
| 18 | Once the entire human genome has been mapped and sequenced it will become amenable to manipulation . |
| 19 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 20 | In order to survive and expand it will need more sponsorships and an increased awareness of the current market penetration . |
| 21 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp/Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it 'll observe all binary standards . |
| 22 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it will observe all binary standards . |
| 23 | The Banking , Insurance and Finance Union has resolved to cooperate with a scheme for voluntary redundancies but says it could take industrial action if the job losses are made compulsory . |
| 24 | We considered giving it a miss , but decided it would look rude . |
| 25 | She had been going to say ‘ potential ’ but felt it might sound patronising . |
| 26 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 27 | The Home Office yesterday broadly welcomed the report , but said it would consult interested parties before deciding on implementation . |