Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible that the strength of the daily clock also decreases in the aged ; this would mean that the amplitude of the rhythms it influences would decrease .
2 The agreements also allow the EC to impose ‘ safeguard measures ’ — restrictions — on surges of imports it thinks could damage local producers .
3 The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes .
4 Calvert reckons Kamtronics ' centrally controlled design together with the broad scope of design and manufacturing expertise it offers should prove very attractive to customers .
5 It may be that in New South Wales , Category 3 , which carries the seven-year penalty , has been constructed too broadly and that some conduct which it covers should have been placed within the more serious categories .
6 The tube made by the indentation is the gut and the point where it starts will become the anus .
7 If the IMF 's forecasts for 1994 prove correct , then 14 of the 21 industrial economies it monitors will have inflation rates of around 3% or less .
8 The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) is calling for a 40 per cent cut in North Sea fishing fleets in order to conserve fish stocks , particularly those of cod and haddock , which it warns could disappear from the area within five years if present catch rates continue .
9 The SMMT calls for the total abolition of car tax , which it says would bring car prices into line with those in Europe .
10 A TOY firm appealed to Renfrew District Council yesterday to reconsider its plans for a £7 million scheme which it says would yield 800 jobs .
11 Apparently Microsoft was concerned that the Unix camp might rally round the kernel which it says would have been a ‘ much more powerful statement … a substantive agreement . ’
12 Today , BR launched a new train which it says will improve services into London .
13 The CPRE has published a 12 point charter which it says will ensure that current planning policy will not be undermined .
14 To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems .
15 To offset criticism , Novell is promising to deliver a new NetWare NFS gateway this month , which it says will make it easier for NetWare clients to access Network File System services on remote Unix systems .
16 Microsoft Corp has launched its largest reseller promotional campaign yet , a $7m 60-day programme dubbed ‘ upgrade your world , ’ which it says will reach at about 28m customers : the promotion will include an ‘ unprecedented ’ purchase of US national print and broadcast advertising and direct mail , offering a no-cost version upgrade to each customer that spends a minimum of $350 on Microsoft software between April 1 and May 31 , and is coupled with promotional sale prices of $570 against the usual $750 on Microsoft Office for Windows and users of Excel , Word or PowerPoint can receive an additional $50 rebate from Microsoft until July 15 ; MS-DOS 6 will be offered at a promotional price until May 31 and the upgrade to Windows 3.1 will also be on sale from now until April 30 .
17 Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country .
18 Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems .
19 King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based Human Designed Systems Inc wants to steal a march on its competitors in the X-Windows terminal market with a new distribution strategy that it says will offer significantly lower end-user prices than competitive products , quick delivery , nationwide on-site service , and a money-back guarantee .
20 Potentially more interesting is a machine Pinnacle is also readying which it says will fill the gap between Sun 's current Sparcstation 2 offering and the top-end Sparcstation 10 .
21 The cost of the bid to Tiphook is put at £2million , which it says will have only a minor impact on full year results .
22 Texas Instruments Inc is now sampling a new chip that it says will allow colour X-terminals to be sold below the $1,000 price line — its first product specifically aimed at the X market .
23 SunSoft is also shipping a multi-processing OEM kit for Solaris 2.0 , which it says will allow system manufacturers to take advantage of the symmetric multi-processing features of the kernel , such as multi-threading , and tune and verify it for their specific hardware implementations .
24 This week LSI will announce a 40MHz Mbus SparKit it says will let a cloner bring a colour Sparcstation 2 compatible to market for under $5,000 .
25 UK manufacturer , Cambridge Micro Computers Ltd , has introduced an Intel Corp 80486-based server system running Santa Cruz Operation Inc Open Desktop which it says can support up to 100 workstations — the 20 MIPS , 50MHz machine comes with up to 6Gb disk and will integrate with Novell Inc NetWare , TCP/IP and Microsoft Lan Manager networks , no prices given .
26 Thus investment in preschool provision and the improved quality of life it bestows may pay good dividends in the shape of calculable beneficial effects on the child 's educational attainments five years hence and perhaps into the longer future .
27 Given a firm 's investment policy , the dividend payout policy it chooses will affect neither the current price of its shares nor the total return to its shareholders .
28 Her larva when it hatches will eat the grub alive .
29 The administration prefers changing the EITC to increasing the minimum wage , which it fears would increase unemployment and inflation .
30 THE Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was yesterday given leave to challenge in the High Court a development scheme which it fears will damage the environment .
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