Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The Isle of Wight TEC says that it notified the Department of Employment in August that it might be unable to meet the YT guarantee within the funds allocated for the purpose .
2 Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that it took the emergency services an hour to reach the injured , and that another hour went past before the 125 was able to move off ?
3 DEC says that it changed the name of VMS to OpenVMS to reflect its X/Open Portability Guide 3 branding , Posix-compliance and its ability to run on several environments as well as VAX and Alpha .
4 Tolby flinched as it touched the skin .
5 The government insisted that this meant that the ANC should also end recruitment and training , but the ANC asserted that it had the right to recruit inside South Africa for training abroad .
6 Chez Gerard boasts that it does the best steak frites in town — and judging by the quality of their thin , crispy and piping hot chips , I 'd be inclined to believe them .
7 Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user .
8 Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors .
9 The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under .
10 Firstly , the absence of any kind of derivative exchange in Germany meant that it lacked the financial culture to guarantee the successful operation of a one centre open outcry market .
11 Crilly says that it turns the place into a nightclub , in the Caribbean .
12 The US maintains that it supports the OAS charter , that it is acting to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal treaties , and that Latin America has no cause to fear that the invasion of Panama will be used as a precedent .
13 As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 .
14 Outlining the aid package at a press conference on July 17 , Major said that it offered the Soviet Union : ( i ) special association with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank [ see p. 38314 ] ; ( ii ) increased co-operation with international bodies including the IMF , the World Bank , the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ; ( iii ) increased technical assistance ; ( iv ) promotion of Soviet trade , particularly with eastern Europe ; ( v ) follow-up reports by the chairs of G-7 summits in 1991 and 1992 ( Major and Kohl respectively ) ; and ( vi ) follow-up visits to the Soviet Union by G-7 Finance Ministers .
15 However , if NUKEM decides that it wants the fuel to be reprocessed , article 18.4 provides that : ’ This waste , conditioned for transport and subsequent storage will be removed from the UK not later than 25 years after reprocessing and be returned to the FRG ’ .
16 Chubais claimed that the letter represented a coup inside the CPSU leadership by conservatives led by politburo member Yegor Ligachev ( who in recent weeks had made several public statements attacking the Democratic Platform ) , while Yury Afanasyev said that it showed the party to be " beyond redemption " .
17 FoE urged Nirex to admit that it had the wrong design in the wrong place and called on the company to abandon the scheme .
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