Example sentences of "it [verb] considerable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential . |
| 2 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 3 | Now it is for real and , though the race will be staged on a parkland road rather than a track , Foster believes it has considerable significance for the rest of Cram 's summer . |
| 4 | We are satisfied it will be a valuable asset for the immediate area and that it has considerable support from the community . ’ |
| 5 | It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays . |
| 6 | In many ways it has considerable weaknesses . |
| 7 | The cloning of plants using tissue culture is also being used to produce improved crop strains and , as Tudge points out , it has considerable potential for the improvement of oil palms , coconuts and tea , all of which are important economic crops in many developing countries . |
| 8 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 9 | The relation seen as Figure 3.30 is in BCNF ( and therefore TNF ) and yet it contains considerable redundancy . |
| 10 | It contains considerable protein also , about 35 per cent , but only for animal consumption . |
| 11 | a mi a very minor point that is that while we 're er carrying on these negotiations and I , I think it can be done without thought without er making the timespan from the start of this bypass , there is one minor point in that and I think it could be dealt with and , and that is the people of Brandon can see that , that the pedestrian crossing near the small roundabout in the centre of the town is far too close to that roundabout and they er believe that it causes considerable traffic hold ups and I see erm no reason why this pedestrian crossing should n't be moved |
| 12 | Their trip was sponsored by a number of organisations , including LASMO , which was particularly keen to support the trip , as it places considerable emphasis on supporting environmental initiatives . |
| 13 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 14 | It caused considerable disruption , ’ he said . |
| 15 | This revised proposal was reflected in E 38 , Inventories , where it attracted considerable comment , with a sizeable minority , not surprisingly , arguing for the retention of LIFO . |
| 16 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 17 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 18 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 19 | However , in the first five months of the current financial year to 30 September 1992 , it showed considerable improvement . |
| 20 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 21 | This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described . |
| 22 | It requires considerable software development and computing resources . |
| 23 | It requires considerable commitment by already hard-pressed teachers , and considerable organizational skill by the management team , to ensure that such issues are truly taken on board , and do not somehow fall down the cracks between more clearly defined and familiar roles . |
| 24 | From Feb. 4 it heard considerable evidence confirming the existence of a " third force " involving members of the security forces who had provoked township violence . |
| 25 | It takes considerable experience to judge correctly when and how much power should be delegated . |
| 26 | Thus it takes considerable courage and persistence at times for the carer to press the needs of the dependent , let alone her/his personal needs . |
| 27 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 28 | It takes considerable time and ingenuity to find out who these informal players are , but once discerned , the model performs very well and can be relied upon to enrich , screen , and find sponsorship within the organization , for a good number of complex ideas . |
| 29 | The stress this causes varies , depending on what the parents perceive as tolerable , but some find it creates considerable tension . |
| 30 | It needed considerable refurbishment ; weekends and evenings would be spent decorating . |