Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's hoped more people will step up safety at work , bringing peace of mind to managers and dogsbodies . |
| 2 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 4 | Britain 's BT has its own global offerings , Syncordia and Cyclone , into which it is sinking some $100m . |
| 5 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
| 6 | The more detail in a wire frame , the harder it is to understand Most 3D systems have a colour algorithm ( steps of procedure in a program ) to show separate lines . |
| 7 | It was costing another £150,000 for unplanned centrifuge maintenance and chlorine plant shutdowns caused by centrifuge failures and resulted in 12 days lost production in one month alone . |
| 8 | Some people were shocked although it was expected some people are devastated . |