Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | It is possible that the strength of the daily clock also decreases in the aged ; this would mean that the amplitude of the rhythms it influences would decrease . |
2 | The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers . |
3 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
4 | Calvert reckons Kamtronics ' centrally controlled design together with the broad scope of design and manufacturing expertise it offers should prove very attractive to customers . |
5 | It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories . |
6 | The tube made by the indentation is the gut and the point where it starts will become the anus . |
7 | In other instances , the same surface sequence may quite freely be interpreted in either way , with no real difference in the overall effect ; thus the following answer : ( 38 ) he always kept it frozen could respond equally well to either of the following questions : ( 39 ) what did Dr Hunston do to the Bremen material ? how did Dr Hunston keep the Bremen material ? |
8 | This it estimated would cost between £120 million and £225 million because it would need major civil engineering works . |
9 | If the IMF 's forecasts for 1994 prove correct , then 14 of the 21 industrial economies it monitors will have inflation rates of around 3% or less . |
10 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) is calling for a 40 per cent cut in North Sea fishing fleets in order to conserve fish stocks , particularly those of cod and haddock , which it warns could disappear from the area within five years if present catch rates continue . |
11 | The SMMT calls for the total abolition of car tax , which it says would bring car prices into line with those in Europe . |
12 | A TOY firm appealed to Renfrew District Council yesterday to reconsider its plans for a £7 million scheme which it says would yield 800 jobs . |
13 | Apparently Microsoft was concerned that the Unix camp might rally round the kernel which it says would have been a ‘ much more powerful statement … a substantive agreement . ’ |
14 | Today , BR launched a new train which it says will improve services into London . |
15 | The CPRE has published a 12 point charter which it says will ensure that current planning policy will not be undermined . |
16 | To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems . |
17 | To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems . |
18 | Microsoft Corp has launched its largest reseller promotional campaign yet , a $7m 60-day programme dubbed ‘ upgrade your world , ’ which it says will reach at about 28m customers : the promotion will include an ‘ unprecedented ’ purchase of US national print and broadcast advertising and direct mail , offering a no-cost version upgrade to each customer that spends a minimum of $350 on Microsoft software between April 1 and May 31 , and is coupled with promotional sale prices of $570 against the usual $750 on Microsoft Office for Windows and users of Excel , Word or PowerPoint can receive an additional $50 rebate from Microsoft until July 15 ; MS-DOS 6 will be offered at a promotional price until May 31 and the upgrade to Windows 3.1 will also be on sale from now until April 30 . |
19 | Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country . |
20 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
21 | King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based Human Designed Systems Inc wants to steal a march on its competitors in the X-Windows terminal market with a new distribution strategy that it says will offer significantly lower end-user prices than competitive products , quick delivery , nationwide on-site service , and a money-back guarantee . |
22 | Potentially more interesting is a machine Pinnacle is also readying which it says will fill the gap between Sun 's current Sparcstation 2 offering and the top-end Sparcstation 10 . |
23 | The cost of the bid to Tiphook is put at £2million , which it says will have only a minor impact on full year results . |
24 | Texas Instruments Inc is now sampling a new chip that it says will allow colour X-terminals to be sold below the $1,000 price line — its first product specifically aimed at the X market . |
25 | SunSoft is also shipping a multi-processing OEM kit for Solaris 2.0 , which it says will allow system manufacturers to take advantage of the symmetric multi-processing features of the kernel , such as multi-threading , and tune and verify it for their specific hardware implementations . |
26 | This week LSI will announce a 40MHz Mbus SparKit it says will let a cloner bring a colour Sparcstation 2 compatible to market for under $5,000 . |
27 | UK manufacturer , Cambridge Micro Computers Ltd , has introduced an Intel Corp 80486-based server system running Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop which it says can support up to 100 workstations — the 20 MIPS , 50MHz machine comes with up to 6Gb disk and will integrate with Novell Inc NetWare , TCP/IP and Microsoft Lan Manager networks , no prices given . |
28 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
29 | How many passengers is it envisaged will get on or off the trains at Stratford ? |
30 | Eastern Electricity , the largest regional power company , has signed a five-year deal with PowerGen , which it predicted would help safeguard miners ' jobs . |