Example sentences of "[vb -s] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 2 | An organisation might become so widely diversified in the range of products or services it offers that it becomes difficult , if not impossible , for management to integrate all of the organisation under a common objective and within a single ‘ management philosophy ’ and culture . |
| 3 | Dr Mike Mosson , director personnel at the Royal Bank , says the bank has a policy of ‘ positive assistance ’ and ‘ positive encouragement ’ towards women , although he insists that it falls short of positive discrimination . |
| 4 | While he agrees that it involves more risk , it does not deter him . |
| 5 | It judged the centre , which carries out work on AIDS , infectious disease and transplant research , to be a world-class laboratory and says that it offers unique facilities to researchers in Europe such as a rhesus colony for which the microbiological status is known and typed for major histocompatibility complex , essential for transplantation studies and infectious disease research . |
| 6 | She says that it tastes good . |
| 7 | The Calderdale TEC says that it has many young people waiting . |
| 8 | The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system . |
| 9 | Quorum says that it has some Echo Logic-type technology in development that it calls Autoport and might be interested in a cross-licensing deal — see page four . |
| 10 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 11 | He says that it looks different . |
| 12 | The British government says that it finances nine projects , including a recently opened satellite station in Nepal , and that it sees no necessity for a separate fund . |
| 13 | KPMG warrants and undertakes that it has full power and authority under the Financial Services Act 1986 and otherwise to make the Offer on behalf of Client . |
| 14 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 15 | Dallas , Texas-based NetWorth Inc warns that it expects lower than expected sales and net profit for its third quarter to March 31 — turnover will be about flat with the $4.4m of the second quarter , and profits down about breakeven ; the company blames the fact that it is converting an element of its Series 4000 products to a new Ethernet implementation and is experiencing unforeseen limitations of critical sole-source components . |
| 16 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc warns that it expects third quarter after-tax margins to be in the range of 3% to 4% as it follows pricing strategies intended to lead to increased unit sales while it reduces operating expenses as a percentage of sales — its strategy for pricing and market share expansion is expected to hurt its near-term earnings it said , noting that the new Premmia line , launched in the UK yesterday , is priced 10% to 20% below rival models ; it also said it was evaluating its pricing , especially in Europe . |
| 17 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 18 | Preliminary analysis at a London laboratory shows that it contains fatty globules of lipids and is organic , of animal origin . |
| 19 | This shows that it contains all the genes , not just some of them . |
| 20 | If appraisal now reveals that it has some validity in principle , the next stage is application . |
| 21 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 22 | But Raff speculates that it makes more sense that all cells are suicidal : to survive they have to be constantly reminded by signals from the body that they are loved and cherished . |
| 23 | It seems that it makes more sense to the majority of people if we tell you how much faster ( or slower ) than a common reference machine the test machine is . |
| 24 | NCR notes that it added 3270 Terminal Support a few weeks back . |
| 25 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 26 | In short , it means that it becomes possible to impose almost any character you want on it , which should make the Standard a session player 's dream . |
| 27 | This means that it becomes difficult , some would say impossible , to specify the ceteris paribus conditions of a theory . |
| 28 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 29 | That means that means that it prevented high blood pressure as well though . |
| 30 | It was New Year 's Eve and the midnight sky was still bright : Punta Arenas is at 53°S , and although on a similar longitude to Halifax has been shunted , by Professor Dowd 's descendants , into the same time zone as New York — all of which means that it stays light for a great deal longer than in most cities , and we celebrated the coming of the New Year in almost broad daylight . |