Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month it agreed to spend £194.2m on the US-based ABS cheque-printing business . |
| 2 | The PDVSA had announced in early December 1990 that it planned to invest $25,000 million between 1991 and 1996 in what would be its biggest development programme in order to raise oil production from just over 2,000,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 3,500,000 bpd by 1995 . |
| 3 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |
| 4 | It involves taking sperm from men and mixing it with their partner 's eggs which are replaced in the Fallopian tube in the GIFT technique — Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer . |
| 5 | Vodafone Group Plc said yesterday it is to encourage the setting up of retail outlets that will offer a full range of cellular phones and after-sales service : it is not allowed to sell direct itself , but will jointly fund refurbishment and shopfitting of high street outlets with service providers and hopes to have 170 stores operating across the country by summer next year ; it looks to spend £10m over two years and aims for a shop on every major UK high street and up to 25 within the M25 London orbital motorway . |
| 6 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 7 | All its profits are covenanted to third world charities : since November 1986 it has contributed £33,500 to organisations such as Unicef , a Tibetan children 's home , Oxfam , Church Relief in Uganda and others . |
| 8 | My understanding is that it is no secret and that it is public information-that is unless it has received £250,000 or more . |
| 9 | Archer Communications Inc , Calgary , Alberta reports that it has received $2.25m from Capcom Co of Japan and its Capcom USA Inc unit , as the second and final stage of a previously announced $6.525m loan agreement . |
| 10 | The integrity of a community 's conception of fairness requires that the political principles necessary to justify the legislature 's assumed authority be given full effect in deciding what a statute it has enacted means . |
| 11 | Their navy wants the best and it has placed £2 billion of orders in Europe since the Falklands war . |
| 12 | This has been a relatively lengthy chapter of necessity and it has placed sales settings in their respective contexts . |
| 13 | The project coordinator Sue Torrance believes this would be a serious loss to the local community , for it has reached people who might not otherwise have received help . |
| 14 | For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create . |
| 15 | It has slumped £1 million into the red in the last six months after making a £207,000 profit the previous year . |
| 16 | As a result it has seen sales climb by a third in the first four months of this year . |
| 17 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 18 | D&B says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since its debut last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders worth over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations with revenues in excess of $150m . |
| 19 | It has suffered staff shortages since its inception . |
| 20 | Personal Computer Products Inc , based in San Diego , California , says it has raised $500,000 with a placing of convertible notes to a group of European banks . |
| 21 | RadioMail Corp , providing wireless electronic mail and information services to subscribers via portable and palmtop computers , pagers , personal digital assistants , and other intelligent devices equipped with a radio modem from its base in Menlo Park , California , reports that it has raised $3m in its initial round of outside private funding . |
| 22 | LASMO announces that it has raised £126.5 million in two separate transactions through the disposal of interests in a number of North Sea blocks . |
| 23 | It has raised £2,772,643 towards the building costs of £4.2 million . |
| 24 | Since 1986 it has raised ¥843 billion ( $5.6 billion ) by issuing convertible bonds in Japan and warrant bonds in Europe ( see table on next page ) . |
| 25 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , a sturdy member of the tiny band of small UK computer and software companies making their mark across the Atlantic , reports from its Mountain View , California Insignia Solutions Inc base that it has raised $4.75m in ‘ mezzanine ’ financing from Technology Venture Investors of Menlo Park , California , which gets one seat on the board of the High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire company 's board ; the investment is its first in a foreign company . |
| 26 | So far , it has raised £28 million , £18 million from business . |
| 27 | In addition , it has provided £100,000 for a national environmental projects competition and backed dozens of local schemes . |
| 28 | Microsoft reckons it has sold 14m copies of the two releases of Windows 3 ; IBM claims over 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 29 | Sunderland motor dealer Reg Vardy says that in the past month it has sold £1.1m worth of luxury cars to local businessmen . |
| 30 | LASMO plc today announced that it has issued US$250 million of perpetual cumulative dollar preference shares in the US public market , with a gross dividend of 10 per cent . |