Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
2 | On the grounds of preventing young workers ' wages rising to a level which might price them out of work it scrapped the 1946 Fair Wages Resolution , which required compliance with minimum wage standards for firms trying to secure government and other contracts . |
3 | Earlier this year it announced a 100 million dollar expansion of its factory in Scotland . |
4 | But it has has dropped the commitment to increase NHS spending by 3 per cent a year in real terms on which it fought the 1987 general election . |
5 | It showed the slanting beams of the roof , it showed the two rotten beams which even from down here and in this light looked cheesy . |
6 | When Blackpool Corporation bought the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Company on January 1st 1920 , it acquired the forty-one single-deck cars which were of two main types . |
7 | A hospital has been criticised for the way it treated a seventy nine year old woman who had cancer . |
8 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
9 | But at least it gave the 13 septuagenarian members of Vietnam 's ruling Politburo , most of them groomed by Ho , another chance to contemplate their uniqueness . |