Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 2 | Not only is it allowing certain health authorities to waste millions of pounds on computer systems that do n't work , it also allowed the London Ambulance Service to put lives at risk with a system that had not been fully proven in practice . |
| 3 | But nevertheless in terms of twelve families that 's very important to those twelve and it 's a small step , but the problem is so big that it needs concerted Government action to solve the problem of homeless people in Oxford . |
| 4 | First , it used national income figures to show the size of the problem ; secondly , its economic analysis was a genuinely dynamic one , showing clearly how the inflationary spiral was operating . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't eat polar bear liver , ’ ’ Doone read in amazement , ‘ ‘ it stores enough vitamin A to kill humans . ’ ’ |
| 6 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 7 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 8 | Adequate credit control systems will still be necessary and , above all , it is essential to recommend to the client that it obtains adequate insurance cover to guard against the risks to which it is exposed . |
| 9 | It needed some land sales to achieve pre-tax profits of £36.2m for the year to February . |
| 10 | The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers . |
| 11 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 12 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 13 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 14 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 15 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 16 | If that was so , and we today have passed these orders , would it require new primary legislation to reinstate the old boundaries er which would be necessary if I understand , France refuses to advance the additional seats which were agreed as part of the Maastricht negotiations . |
| 17 | But advertisers love it — it means more air time to sell products because the more popular a show is , the more people watch the ads . |
| 18 | Olivetti will continue to supply Hitachi Ltd mainframes in Italy , though it expects top-of-the-range Alpha systems to take sales away from the Japanese kit . |