Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 2 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
| 3 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 4 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 5 | Ancor says it has extensive expertise in the research and design of components that meet the Fibre Channel Standard specification , and the initial activities will involve use of high-speed switching chips and software technologies from Ancor and related technologies from IBM . |
| 6 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 7 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB 's Ericsson Corp says it sees cellular telephone unit sales growing 30% to 40% this year from the current 20m in use worldwide , half in the US . |
| 8 | One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries . |
| 9 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 10 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 11 | Because the neutrons are not slowed by any moderator at fast speeds it breeds further plutonium in the blanket of uranium which surrounds the reactor core . |
| 12 | Now the organisation which owns it says more room is needed to accomodate all the visitors . |
| 13 | As it vapourises it releases white smoke — beryllium oxide . |
| 14 | It is keen to exploit the so-called personal communications market — supposedly destined to grow from one million world users in 1994 to 100 million by 2000 — and having a finger in both pies means it wins either way . |
| 15 | This means it needs effective screening and filtering which can be difficult , bulky and expensive . |
| 16 | Does it makes any difference , for example , whether the dispute is official or unofficial ? |
| 17 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 18 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 19 | Now it is for real and , though the race will be staged on a parkland road rather than a track , Foster believes it has considerable significance for the rest of Cram 's summer . |