Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers .
2 A TOY firm appealed to Renfrew District Council yesterday to reconsider its plans for a £7 million scheme which it says would yield 800 jobs .
3 Thus investment in preschool provision and the improved quality of life it bestows may pay good dividends in the shape of calculable beneficial effects on the child 's educational attainments five years hence and perhaps into the longer future .
4 Lloyd 's , London 's sick insurance market , unveiled a business plan that it hopes will attract corporate members despite recent massive losses .
5 The Bush administration is proud of the pioneering use of emissions-trading in the clean-air act , which it hopes will cut sulphur-dioxide output for just over half the cost of equivalent regulation .
6 Same-Lamborghini makes much of its unusual one-fuel-pump-per-cylinder arrangement , which it claims should give good fuel consumption .
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