Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , it announced a special 6p dividend payment covering the change in the year end . |
| 3 | It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night . |
| 4 | In the classical period , especially under Rome , it became an accepted means of satisfying the blood lust of the plebs by the chase and slaughtering of animals in the arena . |
| 5 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 6 | So you 're halving the tempo , but , it needs a slight roe that means just lead into it , so , , two and one , can do that , but you 're doing , , and it 's instable for ever . |
| 7 | ‘ It has a tiny chip.Just here , on the cuff . |
| 8 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 9 | Keyence turns this convention on its head : not only does it subcontract manufacturing , but it has an in-house sales team that accounts for fully half its workforce . |
| 10 | It has an active data dictionary and gives a relational view of the database . |
| 11 | It designed a massive 400m-ecu ( $100m ) programme for 1991 in the context of the break-up of the Soviet Union and of rapidly changing government structures . |
| 12 | It holds a regular series of seminars at which reports are presented on research currently in progress . |
| 13 | Informix was expecting a $22m cheque last week for its share of the 60,000-user US Army RCAS contract which is worth $1.6bn overall : it received an initial $5m payment back in January . |
| 14 | Today it possesses a distinguished staff , many with international reputations , closely involved in postgraduate education and the advancement of legal knowledge . |
| 15 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 16 | It costs a daunting $48,100 with 3.9Gb and the additional 2Gb drives are $5,835 apiece . |
| 17 | As a cartridge-only game it costs a hefty £14.95 but when you consider the quality you 're receiving , could you do without this purchase ? |
| 18 | It costs a whopping £19,907 and is currently on offer only as a left-hooker , although right-hand drive will be available towards the end of the year . |
| 19 | It 's the machine every Game Boy owner would like , but it costs a prohibitive £129.99 if bought with a Sonic The Hedgehog cart . |
| 20 | Digitalk Inc , Los Angeles is now shipping the 32-bit version of its object-oriented Smalltalk/V development environment for OS/2 2.0 , enabling users to create Smalltalk/V applications that are up to 100% faster and 50% smaller than 16-bit OS/2 applications : it can call both 16-bit and 32-bit Dynamic Link Libraries , adds a debugger with enhanced single-stepping capability , improved support for bit maps , double-byte character set characters in Smalltalk/V code , and support for OS/2 's common dialogue boxes ; it costs a swinging $1,000 . |
| 21 | A pilot scheme , using one welfare rights worker , indicated the potential of a specialist approach to welfare rights which concentrated solely on the needs of people with learning difficulties : it raised an extra £20,000 over and above existing benefits . |
| 22 | The test has several shortcomings , however : ( i ) it can only be accurately interpreted , if the small intestinal flora is normal ; ( ii ) it requires a bacterial flora in the caecum which is capable of producing H 2 ; ( iii ) it only measures the transit of the head of the meal ; and ( iv ) its reproducibility has been questioned . |
| 23 | For the whole unit is bolted to the back of the tractor and it takes a mere ½hr to change it — and no need for a limp back to the workshop ! |
| 24 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 25 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 26 | Another novelty is the secure access feature , which prompts you for a password when it auto-answers an incoming data . |
| 27 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
| 28 | It contained a Golden Tench , Golden Orfe , Goldfish , Comets and Shubunkins . |
| 29 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 30 | It follows a held 55p total for the combined group for 1992 . |