Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] [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 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Tanner adds : ‘ It needed to include local language support , and recognise local accounting requirements . |
| 11 | It is so tiny that it can live inside an empty clam shell whence it emerges to seize minute soldier crabs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As children get older , it helps to hold short family meetings to discuss matters like holidays , which concern the whole family , and talk over anything which is important to the child — her pocket money or when to return home from a party . |
| 14 | In the discount market the Bank of England takes advantage of day-to-day flows of funds between the public and private sectors to indicate the way in which it wishes to see short-term interest rates move . |
| 15 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 16 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 17 | It had to identify new target markets . |
| 18 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 19 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |