Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We have made provision within Strathclyde 's budget for funds to enable it to undertake development of the A77 . |
2 | Supporters claim it makes jails easier to manage . |
3 | In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves ! |
4 | The best rule of thumb is to ask whether the data element has information about it , in other words does it have attributes ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
7 | Of course , it is possible to imagine evil-minded dictators abusing it to produce nightmares , but if it could be used to enhance our resistance to disease , or the survival of humanity depended on it , then it would be time to think again . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
10 | The fact that the ad sits in between other normal commercials gives it added impact , but the trouble is it tackles the symptoms , not the cause and could feed on guilt . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Under Section 26 of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 , the Commission has a duty to undertake comparative and other studies to enable it to make recommendations for improving VFM . |
13 | The firms say it protects farmworkers and the public from dangerous pesticides . |
14 | But campaigners say it treats refugees as criminals . |
15 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |
16 | Heathrow is rapidly turning into a ‘ hub and spoke ’ airport with international passengers using it to change planes for other destinations . |
17 | Carrollton , Texas-based Westcott Communications Inc is to acquire some assets of TI-IN Network Inc , San Antonio , Texas , for 350,000 new Westcott shares worth about $11m , plus assumption of some liabilities ; TI-IN had audited revenues of some $7.3m and made a net loss of $697,000 for its fiscal year ended September 30 last ; it provides live interactive courses with two-way communication for school pupils in Grades K to 12 ; Westcott Communications says it pioneered satellite delivery of workplace training . |
18 | Protesters claimed it promoted child molestation . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
21 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
22 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
23 | It was also agreed at the summit that Peru should receive US$40,000,000 in aid from the other four Pact members to help it regain access to international credit lines . |
24 | For instance , if you pick up an SPF15 sun cream awarded four stars ( the maximum rating ) , it means that the product filters out UVA and UVB equally , whereas an SPF15 cream with two stars means it filters UVA considerably less effectively than UVB . |
25 | Meanwhile , as Means and Smith point out , the NFOAPA 's concentration on pensions issues caused it to ignore inadequacies in medical and social provision whilst ‘ its campaigning style was unlikely to have been appreciated ’ within the corridors of power . |
26 | In 1988 Meekatharra Minerals claimed it found gold above normal limits near Ballymoney , Co , Antrim . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Police said it appeared £5 in petty cash had been stolen . |
29 | I 'm delighted to have given them two er security men does it mean security men are now available for all the county ? |
30 | It would take a teacher a great deal of time to prepare such graphs manually but more importantly the software allows pupils to manipulate it to discover aspects of pond life for themselves . |