Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made from ¾in nylon-coated steel tubing , it stands 5ft 6in high , with 13in sunk into the ground . |
| 2 | They stated that it cost taxpayers 3bn to 4bn per annum in overrun defence contracts . |
| 3 | It allows business people and those in higher education to demonstrate an interest and a commitment to the work of young people in schools . |
| 4 | The machine is being pitched at banks and telephone companies ; it also said it plans to make available ruggedised versions of the 340 and 350 systems and servers ; and that it cut prices 17% on the Powerserver 950 , and 14% on the 400Mb disk drive for the RS/6000 . |
| 5 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 6 | It weighs 6lb 11oz and is worth £230 . |
| 7 | It went 2lb 3oz ! |
| 8 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 9 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 10 | Medeva can expand this sales force and use it to develop US sales of its other products . |
| 11 | If we move to oil well our oil business obviously operates in a cycle different to our publishing businesses and er , at the end of the first half it had record sales and profits fifteen percent ahead in dollar terms ten percent ahead in , in sterling terms which may surprise you slightly , but I think James probably will talk about that later . |
| 12 | This will be much appreciated because it saves agency staff time and effort in trying to find you work unnecessarily . |
| 13 | The a.c. signal present at the collector of TR1 is typically in the range 2 to 4V pk-pk ( under no circumstances can it exceed 9V pkpk by virtue of the 9V d.c. supply ) . |
| 14 | Secondly , it enables community people to participate in the beginning of creating the program or plan of action . |
| 15 | SCO claims some 550,000 installations of its Unix-based products on Intel computers worldwide , and although its ODT business accounted for only 20% of its revenues in 1991 — ODT 1.0 was launched in 1990 — and 25% so far this year , it believes ODT sales will rocket to account for 60% of its sales by next year . |
| 16 | It comprises core data access and graphical analysis tools , together with Workmap , a kind of monitoring feature that plots the various stages of analysis completed by the user as a series of icons . |
| 17 | It carries Archive staff news and announcements , news on other data organisations and archives worldwide , one or more feature articles on research carried out using data sources , full details of selected new acquisitions as well as a complete listing with brief details of all new acquisitions , a diary of forthcoming events , and a book review section . |
| 18 | But it 's 24 pages , there 's an interesting club history for those who have n't read it 20 times before and from advertising it makes Roddymoor £400 a year . |