Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , blowing on the breast feathers of a bird of prey causes it to stretch its wings out . |
| 2 | How has it balanced its books with the rest of the world ? |
| 3 | Not only has it showcased its product offerings including the new high end range of Macro Array CMOS High performance and density , or Mach , devices and recent high-speed programmable logic devices — but has offered its third party Fusion partners a platform and conducted straw polls to assess the demand for new 3V devices among its customers . |
| 4 | Has it changed its mind on unilateral nuclear disarmament , or on the Common Market , or on nationalisation , or on trade unions , or on the free market ? |
| 5 | Technalysis is a services company developing applications , products and systems on mainframe , mid-range and microcomputers ; Compuware wants it to expand its presence in the US mid-west . |
| 6 | USL repaid approximately $13m to AT&T from the proceeds and the remainder allows it to fund its cash flow requirements . |
| 7 | Sequent expects to continue to win orders from the traditional mainframe market and says it expanded its sales force to 160 from 125 at the end of 1991 although total employment fell to 1,550 from a peak of 1,800 . |
| 8 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 9 | Munich-based consumer electronics group Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG , ravaged by personal computer price wars , says it cut its group loss to less than $45m 1992 from $90m the previous year , and it told Reuter it hopes to approach breakeven this year ; 1992 sales were around $310m compared with $377m done in 1991 . |
| 10 | It says it expects its OEM customers to implement the new standard in their products by the end of the year . |
| 11 | Upgrades to its existing 91 and 93 systems are in the works and Encore says it expects its OEM , McDonnell-Douglas , to sign up for the new machine . |
| 12 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 13 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 14 | The company recognises it owes its status as a major world force in fast food to the quality of its products and the quality of its franchisees . |
| 15 | Although any " alternative doctrine must be highly speculative " , the influential Halsbury 's Laws of England goes on to recognise that : " for many constitutional theorists the question of whether parliamentary sovereignty presupposes that Parliament must always remain sovereign and can not be bound by the legislation of its predecessors , or whether Parliament 's sovereignty entitles it to restrict its power to legislate , or deprive itself of the power to legislate , remains open . " |
| 16 | Three joints let it move its gripper to any point in 3-dimensional space ; and then two more let it point its gripper in any direction ; the sixth lets it twist its gripper round the gripper 's axis ; and the last opens and closes the gripper . |
| 17 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 18 | Yet no one stops it or persuades it to change its mind . |
| 19 | This is even more apparent in the long necked birds such as the heron , which has one special vertebrae in the middle of its neck which enables it to thrust its head suddenly at unsuspecting fish . |
| 20 | From where and whom does it draw its strength ? |
| 21 | When a baby 's crawling how does it hold its feet ? |
| 22 | How does it get its information across . |
| 23 | Neither does it lose its sweetness by becoming diluted with rain water . |