Example sentences of "[verb] it [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We expect it to contribute 4.5 per cent of profits , and we base that on our expected group performance of 20 per cent organic growth a year . ’ |
| 2 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 3 | On the contrary , middle class feminists asked for the repeal of all protective legislation because they believed it to represent one of the barriers to female employment . |
| 4 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 5 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 6 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 7 | So each time you want to do something it 's five , displays it and so on tell it to read five but it just fills up it 's memory , it 's little buffer with that much . |
| 8 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 9 | He has n't asked me yet , not formally , he has n't done the man-to-man bit with my father , I 'm just expecting it to happen one day , maybe . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can see me and him having it to go one of these days . ’ |
| 11 | I believe it to constitute one of the clearest lines of demarcation between upper and lower in the working class . ’ |
| 12 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 13 | In the 1989 statement on Government expenditure they announced that the Home Office was to receive yet another increase in money to enable it to build two extra prisons , to set up 30 day centres for parole on probation , to recruit 300 more police officers in provincial forces , to employ an additional 1,300 civilians in the police forces and to make the Immigration and Nationality Department more efficient . |
| 14 | For this reason , the Presentation attainment target stops at level 7 ( the level that should be achieved by the average 16 year old ) because there is no way of extending it to level 10 , other than by specifying lists of increasingly irregular and unusual words — which would be absurd . |
| 15 | Yet the Government 's stewardship of the Tate has allowed it to add one picture last year . |
| 16 | In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided . |
| 17 | The AIF expects it to take 68 months to complete st Lucie 2 in Florida , which is due to be commissioned this year . |
| 18 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 19 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |
| 20 | I can ask it to read one of these three files , and it presents me with a one-dimensional array of alphabetical characters , including the characters that you are now reading . |
| 21 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |