Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 2 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 3 | Edmonton , Alberta-based Telus Corp has entered a partnership with CUC Broadcasting Ltd to develop UK cable television and telephone operations at half a dozen franchises in the London area : Telus says that it plans to invest about $100m in the effort in the next five years . |
| 4 | Up to 80 per cent of the membrane of a halobacterium consists of bacteriorhodopsin , the light receptor it uses to carry out photosynthesis . |
| 5 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 6 | One of the little pleasures of life in Downing Street is the opportunity it affords to dish out baubles of one kind or another . |
| 7 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 8 | This , of course , changes our perception of it , and it seems to take on characteristics such as ‘ temperamental ’ , ‘ dangerous when roused ’ , ‘ difficult to control ’ , and so on . |
| 9 | It seems to stir up emotions and rake over apparently quiescent turmoil . |
| 10 | Katie Jeffreys of the poisons unit at Guy 's Hospital , London , said : ‘ It seems to break down barriers and gives people a loving feeling towards others . |
| 11 | It seems to bear out Mr Lamont 's criticism of important decisions too often taken for short-term publicity . |
| 12 | The extent to which variation in nutritional status contributes to tissue injury remains unclear but it seems to offer only part of the explanation . |
| 13 | COSE also has no time to go off on an invention tear , he said , if it aims to take on Microsoft Corp . |
| 14 | COSE also has no time to go off on an invention tear , he said , if it aims to take on Microsoft Corp . |
| 15 | It aims to set up observation posts to secure the area against invasion by miners , settlers or ranchers , conduct health and vaccination programmes among indigenous people , and carry out environmental surveys of the forest . |
| 16 | The Glass Pig is run by a charity , and it aims to break down barriers between people with severe learning difficulties and the rest of the community . |
| 17 | It aims to discover why farmers who in general enjoy better than average health are nonetheless more likely to develop a range of cancers , including leukaemia and cancers of the prostrate , brain , stomach , skin and lip . |
| 18 | And with a market capitalisation of about £40m , it hopes to raise approximately £10m by the share placing . |
| 19 | When massaged into the scalp , it helps to slow down hair loss by strengthening each shaft , thus lengthening the life of each hair . |
| 20 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 21 | It helps to break down tension and get everything into proper perspective , ’ he explained later . |
| 22 | It does it if it wishes to force up interest rates . |
| 23 | The choice of duration as the organising category of the past may seem arbitrary , or at best superficial ; but Braudel implies that it serves to pick out states and processes of qualitatively distinct types , which have different sorts of impact on human affairs and demand to be studied separately . |
| 24 | ‘ But it serves to show how things evolve . |
| 25 | Intel Corp says it expects to spend about $2,500m on capital expenditures and research and development in 1993 , an increase of 25% on estimated 1992 spending of about $2m , saying that the expenditures , unusually high as a percentage of sales even for a high technology company , are needed to address the increasing complexity of microprocessors and the high cost of chip plants ; the company has started paying a dividend , making its shares attractive to a wider range of institutions , and the expectation is that it will tap the market for new funds . |
| 26 | It expects to take on debts of about £3 million . |
| 27 | This conception of individuals as determined by social practice is familiar enough , but it remains to see how Althusser fills it out . |
| 28 | However , it remains to ask how Marx , with no starting-point to appeal to , defines the economic sphere . |
| 29 | It remains to explain how Qi is chosen . |
| 30 | The problem with this type of explanation is that it fails to explain why women , who are surely more deprived than men , do not also engage in violent acts . |