Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
| 2 | Because of this Marx concluded that it was wrong to see ideas and values simply as adaptations of the individual to natural conditions , as some eighteenthand nineteenth-century philosophers seemed to believe . |
| 3 | When in August 1986 GM announced that it was merging its North American heavy truck operations with Volvo , under Volvo 's control , the future of Bedford looked bleak . |
| 4 | On Feb. 21 India announced that it was sending medicines worth Rs10,000,000 while Algeria donated some 8 tonnes of food and medicines . |
| 5 | On April 17 Germany announced that it was increasing its aid for Kurdish refugees to DM440,000,000 ( $262,600,000 ) . |
| 6 | On Jan. 25 Belgium announced that it was likely to withdraw its 25,000 troops based in West Germany and underlined its opposition to any further increase in NATO 's defence budget . |
| 7 | On Nov. 16 Germany announced that it was disbanding its branch of a clandestine anti-communist network . |
| 8 | On March 16 Kazakhstan announced that it was establishing a national guard of unspecified numbers , subordinate to the President . |
| 9 | As Nazi Germany started to crumble into dust during the final battles of 1945 Gehlen realised that it was time to change sides . |