Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 2 | The Government is promoting Compacts because it recognises that there will be a shortfall in supply of responsible and qualified young people over the next few years . |
| 3 | When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast . |
| 4 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 5 | It is recommended for publishing students as it gives a useful background to advanced work . |
| 6 | Baker and Butlin ( 1973 , p. 619 ) concluded from their major edited survey of those field systems that ‘ As the number of local studies has increased , so to some extent has the difficulty of attempting generalizations and it becomes increasingly clear that no single interpretation will exactly fit all the known facts ’ . |
| 7 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 8 | The beach start is the only way to launch into breaking waves and it needs to be carefully timed . |
| 9 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 10 | IBM made the announcement at the Semiconductor Industry Association meeting in San Jose , where it said that its Technology Products unit would have to start shuttering plants if it did n't succeed in its new initiative of selling chips to other vendors and offering them on the merchant market . |
| 11 | Trafalgar House , for example ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 10 ) , does not appear to have breached any of the detailed requirements of the Companies Act or of accounting standards when it avoided putting £102.7m of write-downs through the p&l . |
| 12 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 13 | The Whitbread brewing group was ruffled by stories it would be forced , under US legislation , to sell its US drink importing operations if it continued a trans-Atlantic restaurant build-up . |
| 14 | Already the club have learned they will receive in the region of £8,500 towards travelling costs when it makes its debut in the Courage National League Division Four next season . |
| 15 | This country spends four times as much money importing weapons as it does on health . |
| 16 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
| 17 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 18 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 19 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 20 | Similarly , Heclo and Wildavsky 's classic study of the relationship between the Treasury and spending ministries in Britain highlights that the Treasury 's ability to secure spending decisions that it wants is contingent to a large degree upon the strategies employed in bargaining with spending ministries ( and vice versa ) . |
| 21 | RSPB official Stan Davies said : ‘ The area is important to migrating and wintering birds as it remains frost-free . ’ |
| 22 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 23 | when you 're talking about taking drugs and it 's been shown that the effects erm the biological dependency is n't that great and it 's no sort of worse than coming off erm , having a bad cold |
| 24 | Over 60 years later Walworth Road has not been widened , the freehold is now vested in the appellant second to fourth defendants , who purchased the property from the first defendant , the London Residuary Body after it had issued a notice to quit , the defendants have no road making powers and it does not appear that the road will ever be widened . |
| 25 | He was little affected by the Civil War , changing sides when it suited him . |
| 26 | During his career , the Master of Stair showed himself to be willing and able to flow or turn with the prevailing political tide , changing sides as it suited his purpose or ambition . |
| 27 | However , no Pakistani official ever talks about the apparent hypocrisy of the government 's claim to be fighting narcotics when it refuses to change the special status of these tribal areas . |
| 28 | We shall begin by discussing uses where it expresses the mere state of being aware of a fact , a sense which calls for the use of the to and never the bare infinitive . |
| 29 | It provides a basis for action which includes setting targets and then monitoring outcomes and it motivates those involved . |
| 30 | that hunting justifies the the end of killing foxes but it does preserve country life . |