Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olivetti said its use of Alpha would definitely be restricted to the high-end workstation market : it ‘ has other designs ’ when it comes to servers , hinting that it may bring out a product in that area based on the parallel processing technology of Kendall Square Research Corp , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based company in which it has a stake ( see page three ) . |
| 2 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 3 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 4 | Said a Drug Squad source : ‘ We are extremely pleased with these stiff sentences and it should send out a warning to those involved in the drugs scene that the courts are coming down hard on them . ’ |
| 5 | It should bring in a great deal of money . ’ |
| 6 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 7 | Mind you , these birds are very quick and it might pick up a few words which could be useful . ’ |
| 8 | It 'll trigger off a signal which means you need assistance . ’ |
| 9 | Greg forbore to ask how someone with an accent like that would know , and said instead : ‘ It 'll bring in a tidy sum if it 's a best-seller , I suppose . ’ |
| 10 | Think it 'll end up a bop ? |
| 11 | " Yeah , maybe it 'll thin out a bit in there , now it 's getting late . " |
| 12 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |
| 13 | Sun got Adobe 's source code in the deal , a reasonably rare occurrence , but Adobe figures it 'll get back a lot of implementation improvements . |
| 14 | Discipline was important , indeed essential , because in the widest sense of the word , it could open up a more ordered world . |
| 15 | It could open up a whole new range of products , especially portable equipment . |
| 16 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 17 | ‘ It could turn out a wet sail . |
| 18 | If you made er if you pocketed ten thousand , of course , it 'd stand out a mile . |
| 19 | It 'd stand out a mile would n't it ? |
| 20 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 21 | That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece . |
| 22 | He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt . |
| 23 | At best , or so it was thought , it would give the United Nations some muscle to stop governments doing terrible things to their peoples ; at worst it would serve up a forest of platitude . |
| 24 | It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it . |
| 25 | To deal with such difficulties and unnecessary travel of pieces of paper the Bank of England announced in November 1988 that it would set up a Central Money Markets Office ( CMO ) to develop a book entry transfer system to enable money market instrument paper to be ‘ immobilised ’ and eventually be ‘ dematerialised ’ . |
| 26 | Following the collapse of the talks , the federal government suggested that it would draw up a package of constitutional reforms to be presented to Quebec and the other provinces . |
| 27 | So therefore there 's less gravity holding it down therefore it would bulge out a bit . |
| 28 | The press had no right to pry and push and sneak about in their private lives , but it was undeniable that if their marriage were to fail , it would open up an entire can of constitutional worms that the monarchy could well do without . |
| 29 | And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there . |
| 30 | Speaking of his intention to attend the funeral , he said he hoped it would send out a signal for peace and democracy in the region . |