Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling the pinch after Compaq Computer Corp 's recent price reductions , ZDS says it 's also working to bring its pricing policies more in line with its competition . |
| 2 | Campaigners say it 's the first step towards closure , but BR says it 's actually planning to spend more money on the line , not less . |
| 3 | Demand is expected to continue during 1993 and the company says it is now planning to supplement its Hong Kong sales office with engineering support . |
| 4 | The Saudi government claims to have removed the equivalent of 1.7 million barrels from offshore slicks , and says it is now starting to address the problem of oil on the beaches . |
| 5 | Progress has aimed its ADE at value added resellers and MIS departments in the past , but says it is now attempting to target large companies . |
| 6 | The company says it is currently working to ensure compatibility between the two releases . |
| 7 | ‘ He says it is absolutely forbidden to have soda except with whisky . |
| 8 | Mrs Harker says it is hard trying to keep these traditions going . |
| 9 | You 're still sort of saying I get a discount really , you 're still saying it 's only going to cost me two hundred a year . |
| 10 | Pat finished his cigarette and , looking at me as he rose to his feet , said , ‘ Piper , I believe it is all going to happen today . |
| 11 | ( Though I have as much interest in my appearance as most women , I feel it is somehow degrading to admit it . |
| 12 | ‘ If it ever gets made , ’ says Howard , ‘ because I do n't think it 's ever going to get off the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing in this marvellous list ’ says Milton ‘ was as fine as Eden ’ and of course it hurts him to say it , and I do n't think it 's far fetched to detect that hurt and pain of that great sacrifice that John Milton is making in the rhythm when we read ‘ Might with this paradise of Eden strive ’ , or in the fact that he ca n't stop there , because I did n't — as you will have realized from Bentley 's comment — I did n't read you the whole passage . |
| 14 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 15 | If anyone thinks it is easy trying to get 30,000 cars out of a car park at once they should try it . |
| 16 | Er usually if a baby cries it 's usually trying to tell you something er and if , if by the time three or four weeks is up er you , you find out wh wh you know if there is anything wrong . |
| 17 | I appreciate that 's a useful way to discuss it , but let's not imagine it 's necessarily going to turn out like that . |
| 18 | The County Council claims it 's merely proposing to bring church schools into line with other state schools . |
| 19 | Commodore 's CDTV multimedia system , based on its Amiga machine and priced at around £500 , has sold some 15,000 units in the U.K. since its launch last year , and the company claims it is just beginning to take off . |
| 20 | As ‘ the foremost professional body in its field ’ , the Royal Town Planning Institute believes it is well placed to develop the business , and will run it as part of its subsidiary company RTPI Services Ltd . |