Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 2 | When the US entered World War I in April 1917 , Leland suggested to GM it should begin building aircraft engines . |
| 3 | It should have read £3.99 each . |
| 4 | And so we 're likely to I think if I put the whole list in the newsletter it might have put people off . |
| 5 | However , in view of their long-standing relationship the bank was prepared to take a chance and said that it would lend Tack 40% of the purchase price . |
| 6 | If it had addressed the staffing issue in 1984 , and cut costs via such measures as early retirement , he claimed , it would have made $7,000m net profit last year . |
| 7 | If , in 1982 , he 'd put £30 a month into the Prolific High Income PEP it would have netted £8,356 . |
| 8 | It would have cost $110,000 to produce the appropriate bit-maps for our former typesetter . |
| 9 | He said it would have cost £200 million a year . |
| 10 | At the time of the transfer it would have cost £6,000 to buy a new model of the same car but as the car was one year old its second-hand value was only £4,000 . |
| 11 | Milk Race organisers had asked Richmondshire District Council if it would support a sprint section through the town , but the recreation committee was told last night it would have to pay £1,000 £600 for prize money and £400 as a management fee . |
| 12 | Mr Brown says it would need to charge $13 a ton to break even . |
| 13 | To cushion the firm from immediate financial problems , Comsat has asked the government to guarantee that it will continue to buy data for 15 years . |
| 14 | The UN reckons it will need to get 2.2m tonnes of food from outside this year , and wants another 1.6m for the rest of black Africa ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 15 | It will help single people and pensioners who live alone . |
| 16 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 17 | By the end of the year , it claims it will have saved $69m by junking mainframes in favour of home grown Unix . |
| 18 | Like other oil companies , Shell is under pressure to trim costs and by cutting back its contribution to the exploration drilling costs it will have saved £3 million . |
| 19 | In electronics applications , the DoI says it will have spent £22 million in 1982–83 , compared with the £23.8 million forecast . |