Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 2 | On the eve of the anniversaries , Jiang Zemin told it to work harder to play its role of ‘ pillar of the proletarian dictatorship … |
| 3 | It has been changed by the influence of sociology and anthropology but it has not surrendered its distinctiveness to them . |
| 4 | It has not affected his ability , for he has scores of 61 and 62 to his credit , though yesterday 's round in which he claimed ten birdies was his lowest by three strokes in Europe . |
| 5 | We also need to reassure the horse shortly afterwards that it has not lost our affection , otherwise it would lose confidence in us . |
| 6 | For a start , America has proposed that Serbia be suspended from the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe if it has not halted its aggression against Bosnia-Hercegovina by April 29 , the date on which delegates reconvene in Helsinki after the Easter break . |
| 7 | We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play . |
| 8 | ‘ It has n't done my reputation a whole lot of good either , ’ Polly blazed at him . |
| 9 | It has n't escaped my notice that you 've gone from five-star hotels to virtual slums . |
| 10 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it has n't affected your appetite , ’ Sophie said tartly , and Joanna laughed . |
| 12 | It has n't affected your area has it ? |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , well , never mind , it has n't affected your nature , ’ I said to her departing back . |
| 14 | But it has n't pleased my mum ! ’ |
| 15 | Oh he 's still smiling , it obviously it has n't ruined his weekend . |
| 16 | And what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas but it has n't broken my bank or my back . |
| 17 | Mm and what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas , but it has n't broken my bank or my back |
| 18 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 19 | Well it has n't got her address ? |
| 20 | I 've just blocked it out and it has n't changed my attitude to cars , except that they 're not safe enough . |
| 21 | It has n't changed my view . |
| 22 | and the thingo 's gobbled up his card as he said , well if it has n't gobbled your card then no problem . |
| 23 | Puddle said : ’ It has n't knocked our spirit and we are hoping to bounce back , and look upon this as a game we can win . ’ |
| 24 | It has simply changed its strategy , abandoning tub-thumping for negotiation . |
| 25 | It has also declared its intention to help develop new environmental industries . |
| 26 | The use of these somewhat esoteric labels may obviate the difficulties of using terms which have a common and often imprecise meaning for a precise purpose — a problem which has afflicted the understanding of Hirst 's work — but it has also limited their circulation , and outside the rather enclosed world of curriculum theory , Phenix 's work is largely unknown . |
| 27 | While the tour is an exciting musical event in its own right , it has also provided its organiser , Miss Chadwick , with the chance to renew her links with the North and its musical scene . |
| 28 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 29 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 30 | It has legitimately changed its mind . |