Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 2 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 3 | No I meant one of the film actresses that has it done that way or something , |
| 4 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 5 | Has it attracted more custom ? |
| 6 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 7 | Well er as I say I think , er if if if the County Council are are insisting that any new settlement erm should be self contained , I think one would need to see what that definition is before we can be clear as to whether or not it has it has strategic implications . |
| 8 | Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities . |
| 9 | Has it has it happened other times as well or |
| 10 | that up of a night and he has it going all night |
| 11 | What has it got little things on the bottom ? |
| 12 | Has it got any alcohol in it ? |
| 13 | Can I put it another way , has it got more benefits than dis- 5 Erm , D |
| 14 | Has it got double doors that shop ? |
| 15 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 16 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 17 | And as the drama unfolds it reveals complex layers of corruption and influence-peddling . |
| 18 | You were his victim ; he wants it to stay that way . |
| 19 | Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before . |
| 20 | Independence allows it to try new parts that others may not be able to play . |
| 21 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 22 | Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland has commissioned a piece of 4GL software which will be unique to the firm in the Scottish legal world and which allows it to produce any report required either for management purposes or for clients . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 27 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 28 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 29 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |