Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 2 | As it is now , HP claims 150 tpsA in a host-based configuration , peaking at at 303.1 tpsA , $5,913 per tpsA , reportedly a new industry price/performance record for single-processor systems , a factor it says is important to the single-stream and batch-oriented applications common in most data centres . |
| 3 | They are free to be energetic and enterprising ; they are equally free to be lethargic and dilatory ; the self-respect of the voluntary group depends on the fact that any success it has is due to its own efforts . |
| 4 | The story it tells is close to the historical details already described , but there is an overlay of romanticism which brings the dry facts to life . |
| 5 | Er erm we think the nine thousand seven hundred dwellings based on one hundred percent migration for the Greater York area is the appropriate strategic approach erm for the Greater York area , the County Council does not see the need for any policy intervention in terms of migration , in respect of Greater York in the way it feels is necessary in respect of er of four other districts . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | Despite the entry level price of this 386SX based PC , the first impression it gives is one of quality . |