Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 2 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 3 | For example , desperate politicians tend to fall back on it to appease working class voters in the United States and the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | The electricity supply industry and others use it to insulate high-voltage circuit breakers and cables . |
| 5 | Tarbes is a busy , professional plant with a big enough workload to enable it to adopt modern manufacturing techniques . |
| 6 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 7 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 8 | The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses . |
| 9 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , allegedly brought the Brussels computer system to a halt after commanding it to make 50,000 phone calls . |