Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also deprives the country of aid programmes of about $350 million a year , a modest sum in itself ; but as it represents IMF endorsement it is the key to unlocking further substantial bilateral aid to support the economy . |
| 2 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 3 | Early in April , the European Commission persuaded the Japanese government to cut 1993 car imports by 9.4% from last year , even though it thinks EC demand will fall by only 6.5% . |
| 4 | That copy you 've got , well it will be slightly rare because it has Terence Stamp on the cover . |
| 5 | It has Ely Cathedral , its great green windows casting a translucent light across the Lady Chapel . |
| 6 | THE Appeal Court hinted yesterday that it wants Hillsborough coma victim Tony Bland to be allowed to die . |
| 7 | London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor ( Europe ) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX , RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III , Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine : the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just £380 ; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language , eight scalable fonts , a 20MHz 68020 processor , proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port ; it also has from 2Mb of memory , one independent and two parallel ports , offering HP7475A plotter emulation . |
| 8 | It features Hayes modem support for telephone dialling so you can store address and telephone details and get the computer to dial the number for you . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a number of problems with this and it uses NHS money in a quite fruitless way . ’ |
| 10 | It uses Toshiba Corp 's 16M-bit NAND Flash memory and an IBM-designed single chip Solid State File Controller . |
| 11 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the book , on the verso ( left-hand ) page , it says Oxford University Press . |
| 13 | According to CSE 's marketing manager Peter Moxham , if it meets CAA certification requirements without expensive modifications , the Z242L will be ‘ quite an attractively priced aeroplane ’ . |
| 14 | Pollution laws : Britain has infringed more air and water pollution directives than any other country in the EC ; according to the advocate general of the European Court of Justice , it exceeds EC nitrate standards in drinking water ; and faces prosecution for 138 substandard beaches . |
| 15 | A glance at the latest list published in Fortune magazine shows it to be not just silly but ludicrous : the list purports to show only US industrial companies — but it classifies AT&T Co as a service company and eliminates it altogether despite the fact that with NCR Corp added in , AT&T 's non-service businesses alone would give the firm a ranking in the 50s . |
| 16 | The move could force the city of Albuquerque to spend US$250 million cleaning up its water waste so that the Rio Grande is clean enough to drink in religious ceremonies when it reaches Isleta Pueblo , 20 kilometres downstream from the city . |
| 17 | It includes Keyman cover . |
| 18 | At the far side of the valley the motorway climbs away up to Great Barr while the canal divides round another island as it approaches Rushall Junction where it is joined by the Rushall Canal to win the coal trade from the Cannock mines . |
| 19 | As explains : ‘ The primary reason for promoting a positive quality attitude is that it enhances Scotland overall and the secondary effect is that it enhances each company as well . |
| 20 | Having sifted through the net , it seems Hewlett-Packard Co 's November 12th announcement will include three new low-end workstations , a mid-range box and a deskside configuration in the HP 9000 Series 700 line . |
| 21 | If we were to be totally cynical , we would say it lets Darlington MP Michael Fallon off a nasty hook . |
| 22 | However , it trumpets NCR Corp 's recent efforts , saying that only it ‘ will emerge from the shadow of product delays and corporate reorganisation to offer a suite of ESP products rivalled only by Hewlett-Packard Co in terms of breadth and quality . ’ |
| 23 | Wembley says it welcomes Swindon Town , but not all Robins supporters will be able to sample its hospitality at the big match on Monday . |
| 24 | It means it 's Wednesday — it means Joy Division to the present day |
| 25 | It means Thanet wing has to be a ‘ sterile ’ area , with staff at Maidstone always conscious of the need to keep its occupants separate from the rest of the prison or — when contact is inevitable — well controlled . |
| 26 | It means Oxford finish in 14th place ; a million miles away from the relegation zone . |
| 27 | Given that IDC 's definition of a workstation market includes both Unix and non-Unix environments , it means Microsoft Corp Windows NT boxes which meet the technical criteria will be included in future surveys . |
| 28 | It means Aylesbury Vale Health Authority will now be able to comply will the new patients charter , which says a 2 year wait for treatment should be the maximum . |
| 29 | How strategic is NT anyway after it moves NT stuff like memory management and multitasking into Windows 4.0 and DOS 7 ? |
| 30 | Acer America Corp says it is shipping AcerFrame 500 , an entry-level , diskless Intel Corp 80486-based , EISA server for up to 40 users : with 4Mb RAM , eight slots , SCSI II channel and floppy drive , it runs SCO Unix , OS/2 , NetWare , MS-DOS and NT ( when it arrives ) and starts at $2,300 . |