Example sentences of "it [verb] considerable [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 2 | Now it is for real and , though the race will be staged on a parkland road rather than a track , Foster believes it has considerable significance for the rest of Cram 's summer . |
| 3 | We are satisfied it will be a valuable asset for the immediate area and that it has considerable support from the community . ’ |
| 4 | The cloning of plants using tissue culture is also being used to produce improved crop strains and , as Tudge points out , it has considerable potential for the improvement of oil palms , coconuts and tea , all of which are important economic crops in many developing countries . |
| 5 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 6 | Their trip was sponsored by a number of organisations , including LASMO , which was particularly keen to support the trip , as it places considerable emphasis on supporting environmental initiatives . |
| 7 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 8 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 9 | It requires considerable commitment by already hard-pressed teachers , and considerable organizational skill by the management team , to ensure that such issues are truly taken on board , and do not somehow fall down the cracks between more clearly defined and familiar roles . |
| 10 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 11 | If the Treasury were oblivious to the competition , it aroused considerable interest among the architects of Britain and Europe . |
| 12 | When the North Tyneside District Labour Party drew up a programme of objectives for the new authority in 1973 , it placed considerable emphasis on new house building . |
| 13 | The answer , of course , was that the motion of the earth was not a common matter — that it required considerable proficiency in mathematics to appreciate the arguments in its favor . |
| 14 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 15 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 16 | It had considerable influence in negotiating the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791 and in preparing a new oath of allegiance . |
| 17 | No doubt it had considerable influence upon the book but Peter Green , author of the definitive ‘ Kenneth Grahame — a Biography ’ , believes the Fowey River to be the true setting of the tale . |
| 18 | Although South Dakota carried little electoral weight , either nationally or in terms of its proportion of delegates sent to the nominating convention , it had considerable significance for the Democratic contest in that it was adjacent to the native states of both Harkin and Kerrey , each of whom needed a good showing after their disappointing results in New Hampshire . |
| 19 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 20 | It provides considerable insight into the eventual difficulties of the early twentieth century mass production methods as exemplified by the moving belt type assembly line . |
| 21 | But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal . |
| 22 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
| 23 | Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it . |
| 24 | The language of ‘ modernist ’ writing is , typically , difficult and challenging ; it makes considerable demands on the reader , and even greater demands on the critic . |