Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that Singapore has virtually full employment , it has begun to move beyond production stage manufacturing and attract foreign investment in research and development and high technology industries such as aircraft assembly , material sciences , biotechnology and information technology . |
| 2 | It has decided to concentrate on laboratory services instead . |
| 3 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 4 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |
| 5 | OSF is a great success , HP alleges , because of the market ‘ pull ’ it has managed to generate for Motif , DCE and DME . |
| 6 | Expenditure fell as unemployment fell , but it has continued to decline as unemployment has rocketed again . |
| 7 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 8 | The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training . |
| 9 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 10 | It is nor particularly heavy on the controls , but it does tend to fishtail at bit , due to the massive engine up-front and a relatively small fin and rudder at the rear . |
| 11 | Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically , it does seem to work in practice , and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy . |
| 12 | The schemes now are paid a pension at fifty , but the only , the only snag I understand is it is n't inflation , inflation proofed until fifty-five , but people are drawing their pensions and they get their lump sums at fifty and it 's enhanced to take into account the actual and expected earnings for the next three years , so er you take thirty thousand people , one point seven billion can soon erm |
| 13 | I 've got to take it back cos it 's got to go on display |
| 14 | He said ‘ No way — it 's got to go into publicity ’ . |
| 15 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |