Example sentences of "it [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 They need it to finance new projects and which they ultimately hope those projects will bring in a profit on the capital employed .
32 And mainframe sales still generate enough profit to enable it to do other things .
33 If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ?
34 Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée .
35 The Council would consider seeking modifications to its Charter to allow it to delegate added powers .
36 The other types of symbols are equally internalized by society 's members , and as this is not part of Freud 's theory , Parsons suggests modifications to it to incorporate these types of symbols also .
37 The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved .
38 Its articulated design allows it to negotiate sharp curves and it arrived at Brecon in Spring 1986 after its Indian home line closed the year before .
39 When the chocolate begins to set , run a fork through it to give wavy lines .
40 Is it to avoid confusion with other films of the same name or is it to give hapless viewers an idea of who they were dating , or supposed to be dating , at the time ?
41 Will he undertake to include the insurance industry in his fight against car crime and encourage it to give financial incentives by way of lower premiums to owners who improve the security of their vehicles ?
42 Seidman in turn sued Cenco , claiming the company fraudulently induced it to give clean audits .
43 The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution .
44 where we were starting from and I think it would be valuable to do what we started doing and actually to look at this as the baseline and decide how we might amend it to keep common factors in that we can all use , because we need something that has a common denominator level
45 But we have to ask — how many insurance companies do we need in the UK and how cost effective is it to keep these companies running when it might be better to wind them up ? ’
46 The tribe of a successful Warlord will tend to grow in size and power , enabling it to fight other tribes or invade the realms of Men .
47 Demand for the service is 25pc higher than expected and the company has bought a new aircraft which will enable it to run extra flights .
48 Some fish employ bioluminescence to attract their prey , while others , like fireflies on land , use it to recognize potential mates .
49 Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times !
50 In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses .
51 In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided .
52 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 .
53 After 1952 and until 1967 this setup gave a forward position which included extra capacitance in the circuitry to give the neck pickup a ‘ bassier ’ sound , allowing it to supply bass-ish lines .
54 The Adventist Development and Relief Agency ( ADRA ) in conjunction with Si Sa Ket Hospital , have taken a popular local medium — a combination of dance , drama and song called ‘ moh lam ’ — and adapted it to convey educational messages .
55 ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job .
56 They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it .
57 IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink .
58 Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders .
59 Just as Marx criticised the suggestion that we could found a theory on universal human needs , he now rejects the idea that we can introduce an independently defined notion of economic practice and use it to explain other aspects of society .
60 The beauty with a scalable operating system , believes Gregory , is that Ready can take a single technology and adopt it to suit any requirements .
  Previous page   Next page