Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | It integrates previously incompatible data systems , improves transmission speeds , ensures that information is quickly available where , when and how it is needed . |
2 | Of the female work force it represents nearly seven percent and all at once . |
3 | It involves predominantly young people who have been involved in taking vehicles without consent for many years . |
4 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |
5 | It has little intellectual sharpness. and its theology is often impeccable . |
6 | Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff . |
7 | It has too many people — 58m today , growing to 72m by the year 2000 — on too little arable land . |
8 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
9 | The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) . |
10 | It uses about twenty pence during night , not forty . |
11 | It allows relatively inexpert people to communicate the gravity of the problem to others so teamwork can be handled sensibly . |
12 | It says around 300 people are waiting for such accommodation equivalent to ten new schemes . |
13 | It bears so much fruit that it can still supply the appetites of 50 children and a large population of garden birds . |
14 | It concerns yet another pair of mismatched cops , with the disposable novelty of one of them being a dog , which tends to restrict verbal sparring , along with the mangy dialogue and Belushi 's lack of manic spin . |
15 | Because it affects primarily younger people , and in particular young women , it has a powerful effect upon expectation of life . |
16 | It employs around 24,000 people worldwide . |
17 | It employs about 50,000 people . |
18 | Press Officer David Shephard says it proves unequivocally that fish suffer pain . |
19 | It estimates approximately 23,400 people were infected with the Aids virus , HIV , in England and Wales at the end of 1991 the last year full figures are available . |
20 | Harwell says it 's satisfied it provides as much data as possible , but the plant is willing to listen to any council proposals . |
21 | At present , it comprises just 400 staff ( including an ‘ ethno-musicologist ’ ) out of a total of 14,000 . |