Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 2 | With continually varied climbing it proves interesting and improbable to the last . |
| 3 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 4 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 5 | The UN has said it has strong evidence Iraq is hiding about 100 of the Scud missiles of the type it fired at Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war , but Iraq denies it . |
| 6 | Since founding the chain in 1988 he has expanded it to include 17 concessions in Debenhams department stores and 20 high street shops . |
| 7 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 8 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 9 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 10 | But the team has shown it has potential and we now want to help that talent by bringing in some experienced players . ’ |
| 11 | Sybase wants to use it to develop next-generation object-oriented point-and-click administration tools that will appear in Sybase Control Server products , as part of System 10 , next year including SA Companion , SQL Monitor , Configurator and Backup Server . |
| 12 | If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend . |
| 13 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 14 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 15 | Airtours ' chairman , David Crossland , blamed his defeat on what he called ‘ the spoiling action ’ of the eleventh-hour intervention by Thomas Cook , the German-controlled travel agency , which on Monday snapped up 8.4 per cent of Owners to try to ensure it remained independent . |
| 16 | Although the Spanish government is the largest open systems user in the country , with two thirds of its computer systems now running Unix , economic pressure has forced it to suspend all future internal developments and abandon its tax incentive schemes for firms migrating to Unix . |
| 17 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 18 | Yet the Government 's stewardship of the Tate has allowed it to add one picture last year . |
| 19 | The cooperation of the Austrian government has allowed it to garner political capital to help promote Austria 's bid to join the EC . |
| 20 | This flexibility also means that if you have created a presentation for one output device and want to alter it to suit another you can do so without having to repeat your original efforts . |
| 21 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 22 | So it 's , if you want to get it done this will be one hell of a big car park wo n't it ? |
| 23 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 24 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 25 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 26 | To detect change it uses quantitative rather than qualitative measures , multi-wave panels ( ie repeated interviews with the same panel of respondents ) , and telephone interviewing techniques which allow day by day measurements of changing perceptions and opinions throughout the election campaign . |
| 27 | She says has it turned gay or homosexual , has it changed sex , is it the micro-climate or did one of us fix it ? |
| 28 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 29 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications systems pay $150,000 for full distribution rights . |
| 30 | The task for the journalist and broadcaster is to recognise and conform to the valuable discipline of the law , while at the same time understanding it sufficiently to be able to call the bluff of those who seek to exploit it to suppress important truths . |