Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think , has it got bathroom ones in there ? |
| 2 | Why , I find myself asking , has it taken recording companies so long to realize the importance and value of Prokofiev 's contribution to the sonata ? |
| 3 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 4 | Airport operator BAA reported it handled 6.8m passengers at its seven airports in May , 1993 2.9pc increase on the May , 1992 figure . |
| 5 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 6 | He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill . |
| 7 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 8 | If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely . |
| 9 | The stud farm says it uses security methods such as electric fencing . |
| 10 | ‘ I hope it reminded festival goers that in many countries , freedom of expression through words , never mind a literature festival , is just a dream . ’ |
| 11 | For example the Labour party planned to abolish compulsory competitive tendering in the public sector although many managers would have still continued with the practice if convinced it brought efficiency gains . |
| 12 | It is also — and this is the key point in the context here — to analyse and refine all this information prior to disseminating it to appropriate decision makers throughout the firm . |
| 13 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 14 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 15 | The scheme is for accounting software supporting general ledger , accounts payable and accounts receivable functions , and there are plans to extend it to cover payroll packages . |
| 16 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 17 | The packaging industry claims the tax will force it to change production methods and cut jobs . |
| 18 | You might be tempted to attribute it to lowish wage rates ( at the Brasserie ? ) , but a good answer would produce figures to justify this assertion ( you know both the staffing structure and the total wage bill for 1983 , at least , so you could work out the average gross wage per annum and relate it to what you knew about catering wages for the period ) . |
| 19 | In December a conference of donors pledged US$1,000 million in relief aid to Zambezia , the most affected province , and the Red Cross persuaded the government and rebels to allow it to cross battle lines . |
| 20 | use it to pay school fees |
| 21 | ‘ Bet it had whitewall tyres . |
| 22 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 23 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 24 | Through our regular newsletter ‘ Lotus User Forum ’ , and our free technical support line ONCE , we aim to help you get the most our of your software , allowing you to concentrate on using it to solve business problems . |
| 25 | Cons We 'd like to see it handle CD ROMS and Networks |
| 26 | In its short history , CAMRA has produced many reports on the structure of the industry and the need to refashion it to meet consumer needs . |
| 27 | Toggle it to turn match highlights ( plus Des and Jimmy ! ) on/off . |
| 28 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |
| 29 | We write an add instruction which initially refers to store address 99 , and arrange to have it executed N times by appropriate use of a conditional jump instruction . |
| 30 | Ace was worrying about these questions even as the suit 's claws were closing round the distorted cube , and lifting it to reveal indicator lights , a display screen , a keypad : a control panel . |