Example sentences of "and [vb -s] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephanie is regularly offered geriatric roles and thinks it is because she was brought up surrounded by archetypal elderly Englishwomen — ‘ I suppose it entered my bloodstream ’ . |
| 2 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 3 | ‘ And has it been ? ’ |
| 4 | Paying the price of not investing in Britain 's future What did the Government do with all the money from petroleum revenue tax and privatisation sales , and has it been well-spent ? |
| 5 | and has it 's so important in the pathogenesis of the capsule that antibodies to it can be used er , ca , er can actually completely prevent the disease and we end up with a capsule vaccine based on the type B pulse . |
| 6 | He has also examined the well-publicised cluster of leukaemia cases around the Dounreay nuclear plant and concludes it is likely to have been caused by exposure to incoming oil workers rather than radiation from the plant . |
| 7 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 8 | G agrees the water looks good and says it 's a Class Two river , ’ except when it rains , when it gets all the run-off and also lots of foul water from the foul sewer overflow . |
| 9 | So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it 's haunted . |
| 10 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 11 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 12 | Oh yes you know sometimes an artist says the picture is his and two years later he denies and says it 's a false one |
| 13 | He said he puts more , more he calls in and says it 's awful really cos this rubbish and he said whereas I should be able to do say the whatever ten o'clock post in whatsit . |
| 14 | The company produced 29,224 ounces of gold at an average grade of between 2.5 and 2.8 grammes per tonne , and says it is on course to mine 70,000 ounces during the whole of 1989 . |
| 15 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 16 | Carnon Consolidated spends about £500000 a year on exploration , and says it is interested in opening up new , small mines in Cornwall , feeding the ore to the Wheal Jane processing plant . |
| 17 | But my wife , who is a Russian speaker , has witnessed this particular drama and says it is n't a Slav language . |
| 18 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 19 | It is also a leading member of the MIPS Application Binary Interface initiative ( along with other MIPS users such as NEC Corp , Tandem Computers Inc , Pyramid Technology Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc ) , and says it is perfectly happy with its choice of chip . |
| 20 | SGS Thomson Microelectronics BV has a new 1M-bit M28F101 Flash memory device and says it is planning to sample a series of multi-megabit EPROM Flash memories this year . |
| 21 | Milpitas , California-based Adaptec Inc has introduced the AIC-71LV80 single-chip controller for PCMCIA disk drives and says it is available in production quantities to drive makers : the low-power controller , for small form-factor disk drive markets , costs less than $20 . |
| 22 | The company promises to provide its corporate customers with early access to leading-edge technology and says it is solidifying relationships with the kind of partners that can provide extremely high volume manufacturing , capability and full global distribution . |
| 23 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |
| 24 | It has teamed up with Ungermann-Bass Inc to develop some of the interfaces to Emerald and says it is currently on the look-out for similar collaborations , which may take some of the financial strain from its development programmes . |
| 25 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 26 | Following its announcement earlier this year of a version of its FM-Towns multimedia personal computer aimed at the fireside market for connection to the family television , Fujitsu Ltd has established an in-house Multimedia Project Promotion division , drawing in researchers from its Research Laboratory as well as staff from its systems and sales divisions : Fujitsu cites figures from Dataquest forecasting growth in the world 's multimedia market at an average of 31.6% annually over the next four years and says it is ready to exploit its strengths in multimedia base technologies such as its Subaru computer graphics system and signal processing chips for high definition television , as well as user interfaces based on virtual reality , in the development of multimedia point-of-sale systems , software and automatic teller machines . |
| 27 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 28 | Pioneer Sparc cloner Opus Systems Inc , Mountain View , California , is finally calling it quits with whatever remains of its Sparc clone business and says it is retracting back to its SparcCard PC add-in boards ( UX No 343 ) . |
| 29 | Alliant Computer Systems Corp , Littleton , Massachusetts is liquidating , and says it is in talks to sell parts of its technology and its service business to a third party . |
| 30 | DG claims significant demand for its top-end 4 and 8-way Motorola 88100 servers , and says it is selling one of its CLARiiON RAID disc storage sub-systems with just about every 8-way machine that goes out the door . |