Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 2 | THE antiques collection of TV expert Arthur Negus is going under the hammer — and it 's expected to fetch £80,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ First , as part of our current advertising and marketing campaign , it is intended to reward staff for their success in attracting deposits … secondly , it is intended to create more consistent charging practice across the bank 's network … ‘ |
| 4 | It is said to help people in sleeping , but whilst it may get people off to sleep more quickly it can lead to waking later at night . |
| 5 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 6 | It is planned to target sales at other advice agencies , public libraries , personnel departments of large companies and publishers of newspapers and periodicals . |
| 7 | Made by Jacobus van der Spiegel , it is estimated to bring $120–180,000 ( £70–100,000 ) . |
| 8 | It is designed to help people on low earnings . |
| 9 | In summary , this is a massive infrastructure project on which it is proposed to spend £58 million of taxpayers ' money . |
| 10 | It is set to pay $780 a kilogram for material blended to a concentration of 4.4% U , a price competitive with that of enriched fuel . |
| 11 | Painted in 1967 , it is expected to fetch £350–450,000 ( $610–790,000 ) . |
| 12 | It is expected to fetch £550–650,000 ( $950,000–1.1m ) . |
| 13 | It is expected to raise £400,000 for a benevolent fund for ageing former performers . |
| 14 | One of only three known copies , it is expected to make £50–70,000 ( $90–125,000 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Scrubbers ’ which must be installed in new West German power stations , will , it is claimed cost £1.5 billion — and this effort has been described as pathetic by both the Ecology party and the Social Democrat party . |
| 16 | ‘ But I believe it was sent to teach people how to love each other . |
| 17 | It was hoped to raise £20,000 by the sale of the first two forests ‘ to supply a necessary service on the return of the fleet ’ from the expedition against the island of Rhé . |
| 18 | He told her that it was limited to secure £60,000 and would be released in a short time . |
| 19 | Although no requests were made for funds it was agreed to donate £20 to the Westside Jazz Band and £10 to the Currie High School Country Dance Band . |
| 20 | It was designed to persuade people not to come to Britain . |
| 21 | Because of the threat of poll tax capping this year , it was compelled to cut £5 million from its budget . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union was South Korea 's second-largest communist trading partner ( after China ) ; in 1989 bilateral trade between the two countries amounted to US$599 million , and in 1990 it was expected to exceed $1,000 million . |
| 23 | It was ordered to pay £2,940 costs . |
| 24 | The horticultural coup of the show is this unassuming little plant which is still in bud.A Victorian favourite called the double cream blackberry plant , it was thought to have disappeared.But nurseryman Bob Brown from Evesham spotted it in the United States . |
| 25 | ( On Feb. 7 , 1990 , Deputy Finance Minister Janusz Sawicki had said that Poland 's foreign debt was US$40,000 million at the end of 1989 and that it was set to reach $43,000 million by the end of 1990 . ) |