Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [vb -s] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Communications Associates Inc , Alpharetta , Georgia says it sees only break-even operating results for its third quarter ending March 31 : it says its printer products unit , Pacific Data Products Inc , was experiencing a slowdown in sales and that its communications business also experienced slow sales in January ; breakeven will be before the previously announced aggregate one-time restructuring charge of about $67.7m . |
| 2 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 3 | Rain is naturally acid , with a pH of around 5.6 ; as it falls it picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , which dissolves to form carbonic acid . |
| 4 | Londoner Roz Jakes , 30 , thinks it works both ways . |
| 5 | Boots has given this product a rating of four stars , which means it filters out UVA and UVB equally . |