Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , however , in May 1988 it signed a new agreement with the IMF , under which , in return for a supply of new foreign loans , it agreed to relax foreign exchange controls and open an effective foreign exchange market . |
| 2 | THE Scottish Office was accused of ‘ landlordism of the sea ’ yesterday when it agreed to end common fishing rights in part of Loch Crinan . |
| 3 | Last August , it said it planned to incorporate scalable font technology from Adobe Systems Inc and support for shared MS-DOS extenders through an agreement with Rational Systems Inc . |
| 4 | A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies . |
| 5 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 6 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
| 7 | A two-control version ( the FAA type certificate still describes rudder pedals as an ‘ optional extra ’ ) it has enabled one-time helicopter pilot Dick Nesbitt-Dufort , after a car accident some years ago left him permanently on crutches , to become a well-known and successful handicap air racing competitor and enthusiastic visitor to many foreign fly-ins . |
| 8 | Sparc International is policing its Sparc trademark privileges : it has sent hierarchical storage start-up Hiarc Inc a cease and desist notice to stop using the name Sparcus on the software that transparently manages Unix files . |
| 9 | Software AG reckons one of the main reasons why it has achieved year-on-year revenue growth is that , unlike its competitors , its software works equally well across a wide range of environments . |
| 10 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 11 | Seiko Epson Co says it has developed new metal insulator metal technology for liquid crystal diode displays to compete with thin film transistor technology at the high end of the market , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 12 | It has developed new reactor designs , instigated research into everything from waste disposal to the potential for nuclear fusion , was responsible for fuel fabrication and reprocessing ( until this devolved to BNF in 1971 ) , and has put a major part of its effort into developing a commercially viable fast breeder reactor . |
| 13 | The Pacific — and the oceans generally — became the main theatre of the movement 's direct actions , although it has challenged French airfield builders in Antarctica and climbed towering chimney-stacks to plant banners condemning acid rain . |
| 14 | It has stoked catastrophic business failures and contributed to increased unemployment . |
| 15 | Ultimate Corp , East Hanover , New Jersey Pick-popper , says it has negotiated new credit facilities with availability of up to $7.5m with Los Angeles based Foothill Capital . |
| 16 | To cater for demand at peak times it has to build extra power stations , which are then idle during times of day when demand is lower . |
| 17 | It has proliferated nuclear weapon technologies and heavy weaponry to Algeria , Syria , Iraq , Pakistan and now to Iran . |
| 18 | Firstly , over the past few years , it has acquired various software businesses with related but incompatible products . |
| 19 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 20 | Replying to reports that it has published misleading SPECmark performance claims for its boxes by using unavailable compiler and pre-compiler technology in its testing ( UX No 378 ) , Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , says the company will use shipped compilers for future SPECfp and SPECint performance benchmarking . |
| 21 | Next , I 'd pick the Exeter High Income , a very high income fund … because it has got good recovery prospects . |
| 22 | Software Developer 's Co Inc , Hingham , Massachusetts is cutting its workforce a swingeing 20% or 71 employees and will take a one-time charge of about $450,000 : as part of the reorganisation , the company accepted the resignation of Peter Brumme , executive vice-president and chief operating officer and Robert Brennan , vice-president of worldwide sales , and neither will immediately be replaced ; it says it plans to enter technically-oriented software markets for engineers , scientists and mathematicians . |
| 23 | NCR Corp says it plans to establish retail computer service centres in more than 50 US metropolitan areas as an alternative to on-site maintenance : the service centres will offer carry-in and mail-in hardware maintenance on a wide variety of desktop personal computers and peripherals , from NCR and third parties ; the centres will also market products including power line conditioners , upgrades and consumables , and NCR personal computers . |
| 24 | take a long time but I mean I know it says got well puppy mess to get over yet . |
| 25 | Digital Equipment Corp says it intends delivering Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment on its OpenVMS AXP platform later this year . |
| 26 | Turning to coal instead , the higher temperatures it achieved enabled English glass makers to develop an intrinsically stronger product . |
| 27 | The time it takes to receive local land charge search results varies greatly depending upon the particular local authority and can take between one and four weeks to obtain . |
| 28 | Mr Tanner adds : ‘ It needed to include local language support , and recognise local accounting requirements . |
| 29 | It is so tiny that it can live inside an empty clam shell whence it emerges to seize minute soldier crabs . |
| 30 | To get the message across that it is committed to ‘ downsizing ’ Data General Corp has launched a worldwide advertising campaign to spread the word : it hopes to zap European business travellers with the ads through CNN International . |