Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to top it all , it has pledged to maintain high employment and an annual economic growth rate of 1.9 per cent . |
| 2 | I have no idea why it has come to bear that name . |
| 3 | It is also supposed to announce it has finished porting Top End to Pyramid Technology Corp machines . |
| 4 | Unix System Labs Inc last week said it has started delivering early access versions of Distributed Computing Environment DCE/SVR4 secure code to its OEMs , calling it the first tangible results of its new-found rapprochement with the Open Software Foundation . |
| 5 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
| 6 | Cable television operator Viacom International Inc , New York says it has agreed to acquire privately-held software development company Icom Simulations Inc of Chicago , which develops and publishes software for a variety of systems , including CD-ROM and cartridge-based video games ; terms were not given . |
| 7 | Lucas lost 4p to 159p in response to the announcement that it has agreed to buy Dowty Fuel Systems for £18.9m from TI Group . |
| 8 | AT&T Co reports from its base in Morristown , New Jersey that it has agreed to supply long distance carrier Teleway Japan Corp with intelligent network software and equipment , in a deal worth over $20m . |
| 9 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 10 | The enterprise is hard because it has to involve mastering new language in new ways . |
| 11 | For instance , a letter to me from the Highways Department mentions a Forrest Road — Lothian St. cycletrack , which it says has had preliminary approval from the Transportation Committee and was ‘ shortly to be forwarded to the Department 's design and construction staff for detailing the works ’ . |
| 12 | It exists to help understand social reality . |
| 13 | What it costs to appreciate Munch this month |
| 14 | It seems fitting to close this story — which to some degree has been the tale of redeeming the bonds , and a modest emancipation of the Ladies — with Robert Naish 's final , official words at the end of 1983 — the most auspicious year in all 80 of the Club 's history — ‘ the future is bright : let us go forward with good will and good fellowship , and enjoy it . ’ |
| 15 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |
| 16 | In 1826 and 1827 it seems to have retained some trade union functions , including support for litigation on behalf of its members . |
| 17 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |
| 18 | The claim is biologically nonsensical , but it seems to have had political significance since it is first recorded in the context of a diplomatic initiative of the emperor Valentinian I , intended to secure Burgundian support against Macrianus , king of the Alamans . |
| 19 | The Trojan story is first recorded in Fredegar , and it seems to have had some vogue in seventh- and eighth-century Francia , where other Trojan legends were preserved . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it seems to have had some effect on Sandys . |
| 21 | To understand it , it helps to have had some experience of a bartering society . |
| 22 | Cummins now says it expects to return to profit this year despite no foreseeable upturn in its markets . |
| 23 | In eastern Europe organised ostentation of this kind remained important on occasion until late in the eighteenth century , well after it had ceased to have much significance in the west . |
| 24 | Separately , a number of BCCI depositors issued a writ against the central bank , alleging that it had failed to exercise proper supervision . |
| 25 | In a rare statement on intelligence details , the CIA on Oct. 7 admitted that it had failed to provide accurate information to the Justice Department and the federal prosecutors . |
| 26 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 27 | China reacted angrily to the US announcement on Sept. 2 that it had agreed to sell 150 F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan [ see this page ] . |
| 28 | On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it had agreed to buy another squadron of MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union , bringing its complement up to three squadrons . |
| 29 | However , it does pay to provide some care and attention when growing herbs in the mass , to ensure their greater decorativeness and well-being , or even simply to curtail the activity of the lustier wild plants . |
| 30 | So it does seem to work this method , and it wor this is the method we have to use for all the numbers including the As and Bs and Xs and Ys where we do n't know what the number is . |