Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If the government continues to ignore us and deny our presence in this country , ’ he asked , ‘ what right has it to demand 100% loyalty from us for action ? ’ |
| 2 | Airport operator BAA reported it handled 6.8m passengers at its seven airports in May , 1993 2.9pc increase on the May , 1992 figure . |
| 3 | and , but the problem is , that , although it creates supply it laboured people who worked , yeah |
| 4 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 5 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 6 | In a report to next month 's General Assembly , the Kirk 's Board of Social Responsibility — the largest voluntary social work agency in Scotland — says it spent £1.5 million from its own reserves in the past 17 months to keep its 42 eventide homes going . |
| 7 | ‘ When Nissan says it wants 100% quality , it means it does n't want a single failure . |
| 8 | When Nissan says it wants 100% quality , it means it does n't want a single failure . |
| 9 | IBM says it expects sales and general administrative expenses to decline by about $1,000m this year through its restructuring efforts . |
| 10 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 11 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 12 | THE Queen came under fire last night when it was revealed it costs £369,000 for a day 's sailing in the royal yacht Britannia . |
| 13 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc has been hit by an Australian court award against it ordering it to pay $3.2m to Perfect Information Pty Ltd as damages on its claim it was wrongfully terminated as one of WordStar 's Australian distributors ; WordStar will appeal the ruling , maintaining the plaintiff was never lawfully engaged as a distributor . |
| 14 | Fleet has already said it expects $350m a year of cost savings . |
| 15 | Ambitious video games company Sega Enterprises Ltd is not playing games : it says it should reach annual sales of $5,000m by 1997 at the latest : the company controls 55% of the European video-game market and its main competitor , Nintendo Co , has 45% , it said ; it also reckons it has 54% of the US market , although Nintendo is generally regarded as the market leader there ; in Japan , Sega has just 20% . |
| 16 | Last year the average cost of making a picture rose 15% , to $26.8m ; and the cost of releasing it rose 25% , to $11.6m . |
| 17 | But they can use it to hurt people too . ’ |
| 18 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 19 | Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse . |
| 20 | Thus , for example , it may make sense to have an integrated commuter rail service and inner-city subway , and to subsidize it to prevent people driving through congested streets ; but only a local government embracing both the suburbs and the inner city is likely to get close to the efficient policy . |
| 21 | The dolphin 's echolocation system is good enough not only to allow it to find fish but also to select its favourite food . |
| 22 | The company 's lawyers contended during a trial in state court that Basinger , 39 , whose credits include Batman and My Stepmother Is an Alien , had caused it to lose $5-10 million . |
| 23 | Traditionally , when a British company said that , it meant it wanted 90% . |
| 24 | Traditionally , when a British company said that , it meant it wanted 90% . |
| 25 | The bank says the sale would leave it owed $125m . |
| 26 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 27 | ‘ I mean it impresses people . ’ |
| 28 | The bank revealed it faced £864 million bad debts and 2,000 more staff would go by Christmas . |
| 29 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 30 | We simply did it to amuse people . |