Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 2 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 3 | A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home . |
| 4 | The enormous importance people attached to these issues seems eventually to have encouraged the parties to address them though it failed to encourage very much television coverage . |
| 5 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 6 | Referring to the Braer disaster in Shetland , Capt Sclater said : ‘ This could well have been a tanker and it goes to show how vulnerable Orkney is . ’ |
| 7 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
| 8 | What sense does it make to put yet more freight onto already congested roads , when the rail network has capacity to spare ? |
| 9 | In Edinburgh the corporation 's blamed for everything , despite the fact it ceased to exist nearly twenty years ago ! |
| 10 | Trading giant Mitsubishi Corp has gained exclusive sales rights for Japan to the SNA ps5520 software package that connects the IBM Corp AS/400 used as a host with the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh as a client : the company already sells a similar package which connects IBM mainframes and Macs ; the software , as reported , was developed jointly by IBM and Apple , and has been localised by a Mitsubishi-related software house and the package will be sold through IBM Japan office systems dealers , Mac dealers and systems integrators ; the SNA ps3270 emulator is already installed on a trial basis at some 10 large companies , Mitsubishi says ; it looks to sell around 5,000 copies over the next year . |
| 11 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 12 | Brewery leases are proving extremely popular , according to agent Christie & Co It has revealed around 850 applications for new leases over the last two months and according to Paul Newman of the company 's leasing division ‘ unlike other business sectors there is a strong demand for them . ’ |
| 13 | Just sorry it has turned out this way . ’ |
| 14 | Since the shop opened in 1989 , it has received over 200,000 visitors from all over Britain and overseas . |
| 15 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
| 16 | It has missed only one edition since the civil war started and even that came out a day late . |
| 17 | Finally , it has slowed down scientific research into complementary practices . |
| 18 | This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Berkeley Software says it has sent out 650 copies of production BSD/386 Release 1.0 code since the judge cleared the way for distribution to start a month ago . |
| 20 | But far from contributing to meaningful employment for women , it has created yet another series of bad jobs . |
| 21 | They 've already given him a taste of the castor oil , a bout of gaol , a bit of a beating , just a tickle , a caress of their united methods , but still , you know , you 'd think it was enough , it has kept so many others from singing . |
| 22 | It has made physically handicapped people keen to stress that they are not mentally handicapped , not stupid . |
| 23 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 24 | Firstly , it has examined only one aspect of the assessment process ; it does not consider the functional , financial , behavioural , and social aspects , all of which are arguably as important as clinical diagnosis in planning patients ' management . |
| 25 | Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife . |
| 26 | It claims it has given very similar results to patterns determined by stock price chartists , charlatans or alchemists depending on your viewpoint , whose work is very popular in Japan . |
| 27 | Dysart , one of the mainstays of the show , says it has become too much bedroom nookie and too little courtroom drama . |
| 28 | It has become so rare thanks to vaccination that there 's only two n places needed i to cover the whole country , Scotland included . |
| 29 | It has to take up private time — and at home . |
| 30 | It has done just 3000 miles and the gearbox is very stiff when changing up from second to third gear , but not when changing down from fourth to third , Do you think it will loosen up in time ? |