Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All councils faced massive problems , he said , with Lothian being £19.68 million above the capping limit ; Strathclyde , £20 million ; and Fife , £11.3 million short of the figure it needed to maintain services . |
| 2 | If it 's courage it takes to put sports cars and coupes into production then the product planners at Mazda deserve a medal . |
| 3 | If there are any problems it wishes to recover damages from the Vendor . |
| 4 | This had been identified by the Allies as an Iraqi command and control centre , but in the event it proved to contain civilians , 300 of whom were reported killed . |
| 5 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 6 | When the clock receives the start signal it begins to generate pulses , which are fed to a microprocessor interrupt line , so that program execution is forced to transfer to the INTERRUPT entry of the motor control program . |
| 7 | He maintained that the increase was reasonable to provide sport for all , but insisted that since leisure and recreation expenditure took up 30 per cent of the council budget it had to safeguard jobs . |
| 8 | At worst it has unjustly built expectations of a return to mass employment ; put money into the pocket of large consultancy firms ; served the objectives of narrow sectional interests ; undermined physical and administrative planning ; substituted ACE and private contract jobs for public sector jobs ; been irrelevant to the needs of women ; been virtually unaccountable ; and invested less than one tenth of the money it took to de-nationalise Shorts and Harlands , even had the programme 's money been additional . |
| 9 | It 's about the patience it takes to apply 7lbs of paint without a drip . |
| 10 | Similarly , people can read a paragraph and employ the information it contains to answer questions , solve problems , plan action , translate into another language , or to precis . |
| 11 | In the next century it came to include offences not only against the church but also against society and the realm at large . |
| 12 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 13 | A further advantage of detailed job analysis is the ability it gives to allocate resources . |
| 14 | The Directive identifies handicaps to agricultural productivity ; to a much lesser extent it attempts to quantify aspects of social and economic decline . |
| 15 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 16 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
| 17 | Don Eigler , one of the IBM researchers , said last week that he was sceptical about IBM 's technique being useful for data storage because of the length of time it takes to move atoms . |
| 18 | Attention must be paid not only to stool frequency and stool consistency , but to painful bowel movements , the degree of straining , and the time it takes to evacuate stools in younr children . |
| 19 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 20 | This has enormous implications for the cost and length of time it takes to expedite cases , both areas over which the Institute has been severely criticised and which it is keen to see reduced . |
| 21 | However , excitement can quickly turn to anxiety when the time it takes to conceive takes longer than originally expected . |
| 22 | The result is a flatter seven-layer management structure , the closure of seven factories , a tightening of the time it takes to bring products to market , and a concentration of effort on selling to industry sectors in which the company has established expertise . |
| 23 | Other features of change management were not recognized , including the time it takes to embed changes in institutions ( Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) , negotiating with institutions ( Easen 1985 ; Hughes et al , 1985 ) , approaching individuals ( Easen , 1985 and 1987 ) and challenging avoidance ( Bolam , 1975 ; Janis , 1977 ; Phillips and Fraser , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 25 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |