Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
| 2 | Well yes , but it only represents two percent of G D P in this country it 's , it 's insignificant . |
| 3 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 5 | That means , it only needs another 8% to gain overall control . |
| 6 | If it just makes ten people change their minds then it is worthwhile . |
| 7 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 8 | It also enables older people to challenge what is done for them , and to make provision more in line with their real needs . |
| 9 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 10 | He said it also has excellent staff . |
| 11 | It also provides essential data for identifying weaknesses and potential improvements in performance ( as does a construction programme which is carefully monitored ) . |
| 12 | It also condemns Labour-minded people in the North to acute political frustration . |
| 13 | but — unlike IRAS — it also carries 50 kg of slightly warmer liquid hydrogen to provide the bulk of the cooling for the satellite . |
| 14 | Instead of trying to sort answers into meaningful groups it probably suits most people best if they use a percentage system . |
| 15 | If anything , like the Patent Office , it probably needs more staff to deal properly with new ideas and to advise inventors . |
| 16 | Its turnover has tripled in the past decade ; analysts reckon it now sells some £450-worth ( $880 ) of goods per square foot each year , against an average of £216 for all department stores . |
| 17 | It now employs 40 people at new offices developed by Liverpool firm Neptune on the Columbus Quay . |
| 18 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 19 | It actually has fifty quid on it or something of that sort . |
| 20 | It is the only union youth magazine which exists in the U K and it specifically addresses young people 's problems , fears and hopes . |