Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It works especially well with HP LaserJets , where it uses data compression and print optimization to increase the speed . |
| 2 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 3 | Now the fight is just as hard but it 's not so romantic , so it seems people have lost interest . |
| 4 | Of this , $200million will come from the US , as previously announced by President Bush , to tide Poland over until it receives $710million from the IMF as part of a long-term programme to restructure its economy . |
| 5 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 6 | If you look at the trends in the incidence of mental confusion in residential homes ( all categories , that 's local authority , voluntary , private ) , it 's gone from 15% in 1980 by small stages until it reaches 24% in 1987 . |
| 7 | One American market research firm reckons that the computer graphics industry will grow at a compound rate of 41–6 per cent until it tops $17 billion in 1987 . |
| 8 | If it sends people into transports of delight , Elliott will be a happy young man . |
| 9 | Therefore , we should be very wary indeed of ( e ) and ( f ) types of statements unless we are sure that there is something really negative that has to be exposed and which , even if it hurts people in the process , is nevertheless necessary . |
| 10 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 11 | In the great store wars to get customers in , supermarkets invented the ‘ loss leader ’ — lines such as bread on which they were prepared to make a small loss if it lured people in . |
| 12 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |
| 13 | Damage caused to non-business property can be claimed if it exceeds £275 in value . |
| 14 | He says they 're bound by the law and if someone objects , there has to be a public inquiry , even if it costs £50,000 . |
| 15 | If it covers people who were clients before or who could become clients afterwards , it will be void . |
| 16 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 17 | Yeah , I think it 's a good way , and , cos it makes people go , bloody hell . |
| 18 | Furthermore the plaintiff can not claim even for his private ( non-business ) property loss or damage unless it exceeds £275 . |
| 19 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 20 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 21 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 22 | She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile . |
| 23 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 24 | The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour . |
| 25 | THE owner of a Newtownards pub targeted by loyalist bombers because it hosted folk music sessions has vowed that he will not give in to terrorist threats . |
| 26 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 27 | Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society . |
| 28 | It might have been even worse if one of these fairly common replies had been given : " Because it gives people a nice cosy feeling that there 's a home somewhere " or , " Do n't know . |
| 29 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 30 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |