Example sentences of "it [verb] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 2 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 3 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
| 4 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 5 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 6 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 7 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 8 | It began to ring at the other end . |
| 9 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 10 | Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast . |
| 11 | But it continued to trade at a loss and in November 1987 the Society implemented one of PW 's original recommendations by calling in its loan . |
| 12 | Following a meeting in early August between Sarney , Ferreira da Nóbrega and John Reed , chairman and chief executive of the US Citibank ( which as Brazil 's largest creditor was owed some $4,000 million ) , Ferreira da Nóbrega confirmed the government 's intention to continue to make the payment of debt interest dependent on the state of reserves , which it wanted to keep at a " safe " level of at least $6,000 million . |
| 13 | From about 1850 , it begins to decline at an increasing rate up to the present day ( figure 2.5 ) . |