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

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1 I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has .
2 Luckily , the picture has altered as it has become clear that in agriculturally wealthy areas , where farmers were often owner-occupiers , they lavished great attention on their houses .
3 On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section .
4 The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has realised that it does not need a change in the German constitution to privatise its cellular telephone business , and has decided that as it is in keen need of cash for investment , it will go ahead and do it ahead of its own privatisation .
5 The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection .
6 It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West .
7 This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united .
8 There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism .
9 Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down .
10 It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor .
11 This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land .
12 Interest in the code has grown as it has become clear how swiftly the end of the cold war has begun to undermine NATO 's defence base .
13 That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative .
14 The European Commission has said that it hopes that the projects will receive formal approval by the end of the year .
15 Moscow has said that it recognises that GRID 's potential exists in the effective use of advanced methods of collecting and analyzing the results of land , aerial and space monitoring of the environment , such monitoring being " an important element in early forecasts of ecological catastrophes " .
16 Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest .
17 Two-mid range RS/6000s are expected from IBM sometime next month , as well as a new version of the AIX operating system for the PS/2 : IBM has said that it plans to bring its various Unix flavours closer together , and is expected to add some — though not all — of the features found in its flagship AIX for the RS/6000 to the somewhat neglected PS/2 version .
18 Since the socialist government has said that it intends to pass this year 's defence bill anyway , it was the duty of the opposition to move a vote of no confidence .
19 Secondly , as my hon. Friend the Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) reminded the House , the Audit Commission has said that it costs £15 to collect £8 .
20 It is a peaceful house in a peaceful place , an air of stillness and quiet lies all around it , and everybody I have taken to see the house has said that it has a very special atmosphere .
21 The party has said that it has no intentions of reducing its campaigning activities. , but will seek to improve its financial position through increases in membership fees and reductions in staff and publicity costs .
22 What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt .
23 The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North is no doubt aware that Grampian Transport plc has revealed that it paid about £5 million for Grampian Regional Transport .
24 Conner Peripherals Inc has decided that it does n't want everything in its Cipher Data Systems acquisition and has signed a letter of intent to sell two Cipher product lines to San Diego-based half inch tape drive maker Overland Data Inc for $9m .
25 JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m .
26 If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know :
27 Coyle has shown that it pays to leave some distributed free space within a file .
28 The 1991/92 annual report of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that it prosecuted and won less than 2 per cent of cases of river pollution reported during the period .
29 Research on field independence in a wide sample of people has shown that it reaches its peak at fifteen years of age , remains on a plateau until the mid-thirties and thereafter declines .
30 In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law .
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