Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal enables it to offer creditors a 25% cash dividend to keep the company in business . |
| 2 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 3 | So there are about 120000 tonnes of shell , and the frugal California Almond Growers Exchange uses it to generate electricity . |
| 4 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 5 | And the system 's built in intelligence enables it to cross check files . |
| 6 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 7 | But the commission wants it to include recipes for worker participation , an idea tried in the rejected Vredeling proposal of the early 1980s . |
| 8 | Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies . |
| 9 | British Gas uses it to trace leaks . |
| 10 | In concert with other senses , the bat 's nose-leaf allows it to find prey and helps it to discriminate between , say , a cold hoof and the warmer blood-filled tissue further up the leg . |
| 11 | The company reckons that its superstore approach allows it to offer product at a much lower price than in a conventional computer dealership . |
| 12 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |