Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 2 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 3 | And it involves planning to rule over the people of the province without seeking their votes . |
| 4 | Lie is a nasty word and those in politics ten who use it tend to get hit by it on the rebound . |
| 5 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 6 | It looks looks looks like my mother , yeah dun n it . |
| 7 | Now that Singapore has virtually full employment , it has begun to move beyond production stage manufacturing and attract foreign investment in research and development and high technology industries such as aircraft assembly , material sciences , biotechnology and information technology . |
| 8 | It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper . |
| 9 | And it is ironic that just as we are beginning to turn to it for answers to environmental questions , it has begun aspiring to Western ways . |
| 10 | Bog asphodel and damselfly. ‘ … it has begun to look as if Scotland might at last be able to possess a tract of untroubled land , a sanctuary free of commercial pressures … where native wildlife could flourish and humans meditate upon their species ’ past follies and arrogance . ’ |
| 11 | Commenting on its reduced losses ( see page five ) , Bradford-based Microvitec Plc says it has cut gearing to between 40% and 50% from approximately 80% over the past two years ; profit on continuing operations before interest was £1.2m against a loss last time of £2.5m . |
| 12 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 13 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 14 | The C E C in opposing this motion , are also guilty of abstaining , of abstaining their responsibility to its low , to its lowest paid members , members it has pledged to fight for . |
| 15 | No , nor had I , but anyone who has ever lost young fish when they have been mashed up by an impeller , or lost the impeller itself when it has become fouled by a hard foreign body , will appreciate the advantages . |
| 16 | Bachelard and Cavaillès agree that the distinguishing characteristic of modern science is the degree to which it has become separated from common-sense knowledge so that consciousness and its concepts are now opposed : |
| 17 | The 1992 programme has begun to falter amid growing evidence that it has become rigged with national interests , disadvantaging those countries who play by the rules . |
| 18 | Over the years that The Women Artists Slide Library has been collecting and documenting the work of women artists it has become sensitised to the many issues around health and disability . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single vendor solutions . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it has become established as the only real alternative for organisations seeking to avoid or escape proprietary , single-vendor systems . |
| 21 | Although in Britain this big yellow-red is largely confined to its home region , it has spread abroad , like the Ruby of northern Devon , and seems to be much better appreciated overseas ; it has become established in North America , Australia and New Zealand , South America , and perhaps above all in South Africa , whither it was first exported in 1897 . |
| 22 | Chemistry has a poor image because it has become associated with a range of disasters , eg Bhopal , rather than the production of useful substances such as the life-saving drugs . |
| 23 | A third State may claim that it has become associated with a treaty through acceptance or approval . |
| 24 | Now it has become associated with appearances and money so that it is a symbol of exploitation itself . |
| 25 | Community policing is a preventive rather than a crime control made of policing and in the United Kingdom it has become associated in the popular image particularly with those inner-city areas where crime rates have risen sharply and where police relations with ethnic minorities have deteriorated , although it is also a response to the police 's loss of contact with other sections of the community , especially young people ( Schaffer 1980 ) . |
| 26 | In Spain it has become fossilized in the corrida de toros , the bull fights highly ritualized by centuries of performance . |
| 27 | It has become linked with the god meme because the two reinforce each other , and assist each other 's survival in the meme pool . |
| 28 | The force of this NIMBY approach , as it has become known in England , should not be underestimated . |
| 29 | The Court also considered the reverse situation , where the third party claims that it has become entitled to the benefits of a Convention , either because it has declared itself willing to be bound , or because it has shown its willingness by its conduct . |
| 30 | It has remained dominated by the police and operates on the police 's terms ( Stephens , 1988:113 ) . |