Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of 1989 the Commission substantially stepped up its campaign for universal environmental controls within the EC , most notably with regard to drinking water standards , where it sought to advance its planned deadlines for water purity . |
| 2 | Yet these million or so termites build their equivalent working in a coordinated way in total darkness , each blind , tiny-brained insect knowing exactly where it has to place its pellets of mud to produce nurseries , supporting pillars , living chambers , gardens , flues , defensive walls — and that extraordinary spiral cooling vane . |
| 3 | Or it seemed to lose its beneficial influ influence on your skin . |
| 4 | The 8100 is the more compelling indicator of what might happen to OS/2 2.0 : IBM spent so much money developing both the hardware and a completely new operating environment and set of compilers and utilities for the thing that it had to recoup its investment , come hell or high water , before it could be killed off , despite the fact that within a couple of years , it became clear that what users wanted as a distributed processor was the machine that eventually appeared — fatally too late — as the 9370 . |
| 5 | The fact that Follow Me was designed for broadcast meant that it had to do its own presentation , as it were , for home viewers . |
| 6 | GRASEBY ACCOMPANIES PLUNGING PROFITS WITH NEWS THAT IT PLANS TO FLOAT ITS GRASEBY ANDERSON BUSINESSES |
| 7 | Two-mid range RS/6000s are expected from IBM sometime next month , as well as a new version of the AIX operating system for the PS/2 : IBM has said that it plans to bring its various Unix flavours closer together , and is expected to add some — though not all — of the features found in its flagship AIX for the RS/6000 to the somewhat neglected PS/2 version . |
| 8 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 9 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has now confirmed that it hopes to reduce its workforce by 33,000 positions by the end of March 1997 . |
| 10 | Lenny Campion gripped the Bakelite microphone so hard that it began to hurt his hand . |
| 11 | The move is occasioned by the fact that the 1982–3 pool allocations represent a cut in income of about 9 per cent for the polytechnics and as much as 15 per cent for the colleges of higher education , the difference between them being ascribed by the DES to the fact that it has to base its view on cuts on earlier data and the polytechnics have reduced their unit costs more sharply than the colleges in interim years . |
| 12 | Even before the report went to the printers , the Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrawclough , was told by the DTI 's most senior officer that it intended to give its own view , in a separate document , on the responsibilities of regulators . |
| 13 | In February the Soviet Union confirmed that it intended to withdraw its troops from Czechoslovakia and Hungary by mid-1991 . |
| 14 | MCI Communications Corp , Washington says that it intends to split its shares — now standing at $52.50 — two-for-one , the first since 1983 , the third in its 25-year history . |
| 15 | Zimbabwe has announced that it intends to sell its stocks of ivory , in direct contravention of the recent CITES ruling [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 16 | Suffice it to say that in this field voluntary effort has long played a considerable part and there are signs that it intends to increase its contribution to this field . |
| 17 | Should you find , on receipt of your policy , that it fails to meet your requirements in any way , you have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days without payment . |
| 18 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 19 | When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard , he activated its mechanism , so that it started to move its head . |
| 20 | But Wheal Jane , Cornwall 's biggest mine , has announced that it wants to extend its workings . |
| 21 | Indeed it says that it wants to hand its own computer business over to NCR 's managers , and has pledged not to close the firm 's factories or sack its workers as a result of the merger . |
| 22 | BA argued that it needed to acquire its smaller rival in order to be able to compete more effectively with the mega-airlines that had emerged , particularly in the US , during the previous two years . |
| 23 | The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war . |
| 24 | In October the government told the Soviet Union that it wanted to put their mutual trade relationship on a US dollar basis over a two-year period . |
| 25 | What makes it attractive to him is that it seems to fascinate his parents . |
| 26 | The airport is 20 minutes from the middle of town and you are in your hotel in less time than it takes to get your luggage at Heathrow . |
| 27 | Dogs , though , can be vaccinated against distemper — so it pays to keep their vaccine boosters up to date . |
| 28 | Twenty seconds and it began to do its own action replay . |
| 29 | The Tour is always enlarging its empire , and it likes to mix its traditional resting places with new stage towns . |
| 30 | Inevitably it meant that she and Jack were in closer proximity , and it threatened to push her sanity over the brink . |