Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the policy formation process is a largely uncontrolled one : on the whole , the government decides which groups it will consult or listen to and which it will ignore ; and empirical evidence shows what one would intuitively expect , namely that some groups are in a much better position to influence government than others . |
| 2 | The Commission stated that it was not at present in a position to indicate which measures it might propose to the Council in that report . |
| 3 | The club 's facing opposition from residents living near the site and a council , which says it would devastate a green belt area . |
| 4 | That might cause headaches at the likes of ICL , which says it 'll run Destiny on its DRS3000 boxes ( UX No 384 ) , whilst maintaining a Sun-compatible operating system on its DRS6000 Sparc range . |
| 5 | Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd 's $1,100m of long-term debt has come under scrutiny from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which says it may cut its triple-A ratings after the company changed its financing policy : Moody 's examination will focus on whether the change will significantly reduce the company 's debt protection measurements over time . |
| 6 | Labour , which says it will create a Greater London Authority to fill the hole left by the ‘ spiteful ’ destruction of the GLC , promises the new body will not be a re-creation of Mr Livingstone 's power-base , but a leaner , hungrier outfit . |
| 7 | → If you buy something which says it will do a particular job then it must be fit for the purpose . |
| 8 | Other support for XPG4 came from Amdahl Corp , DEC , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — which says it will deliver an XPG4 version of Open Desktop in the first quarter of next year — Mortice Kern Systems Inc , Sequent Computer Systems Inc , IBM Corp , Groupe Bull SA , HP and Uniplex Ltd — which also promised XPG4 compliance at the beginning of next year . |
| 9 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 10 | The possibility of an opt out has concerned the county council which fears it could lose playing fields at the former Eston Lowfields School on Gillbrook 's campus . |
| 11 | ‘ A transceiver , which means it can transmit as well as receive . |
| 12 | When a whale drinks a litre of sea water , it is able to concentrate the salt into two thirds of litre of urine — which means it can quench its thirst with a net gain of a third of a litre of fresh water . |
| 13 | Unusually for the PC it does n't require an environment manager like Windows or Gem which means it can run on a standard hard disk PC system . |
| 14 | The art director , as well as being an ideas man and a designer , must also be a sound technician because an advertisement has got to work , which means it must fill the allotted space attractively and effectively . |
| 15 | Many far less valuable items were left untouched in the raid — which means it must have been a ‘ professional job , ’ say police . |
| 16 | Thus a printer which supports it must contain a Postscript interpreter . |
| 17 | So how are we to reach any agreement now , at the end of the 1980s , on the function of education , what it is for , what needs it must meet ? |
| 18 | ‘ The Hungarian government has been asking us what questions it should put to companies wanting to invest there , ’ Davies says . |
| 19 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 20 | The message of the Burgess shale — that there has always been variety , and no one can say in what forms it will survive until it has done so — remains . |
| 21 | However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning . |
| 22 | Established as a privately-financed institution by a Planning Board which first met in January 1969 , UCB had at an early stage to consider what awards it might offer in advance of the Charter it hoped to obtain . |