Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’ |
| 2 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
| 3 | The satellite television company yesterday announced it has secured the exclusive rights to live coverage of England 's three Tests and six one-day internationals this winter . |
| 4 | It has absorbed the Eastern Red Pied of eastern Liège , which was in effect the MRY in Eupen and Malmédy . |
| 5 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 6 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 7 | The company is almost entirely dependent on Royal Navy orders , although it has built the odd merchant ship of a more complex kind . |
| 8 | The jurisdiction of the High Court is an expanding one : in recent years , for example , it has embraced the supervision of the Take-over Panel ; Reg. v. Panel on Take-overs and Mergers , Ex parte Datafin Plc. [ 1987 ] Q.B . |
| 9 | It has stunted the growth of many a fine band — and promoted horseshit to sheep . |
| 10 | Although it is hampered by a lack of trained community nurses , it has undertaken a process of community diagnosis to determine local health problems and conducts numerous preventive and health education activities , including cervical cytology programmes , visits to schools , group work with mothers , and the training of health agents . |
| 11 | It has maintained a full-time programme continuously for over forty years . |
| 12 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 13 | By its control of entry into the profession , it has maintained a shortage of doctors and so ensured high rewards for medical services . |
| 14 | It has criticized the government for not stressing the responsibilities of scientists in its draft safety guidelines on working with genetically modified organisms . |
| 15 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 16 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 17 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 18 | They include Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer , who said : ‘ It has turned the game into basketball . |
| 19 | The bank says it has turned the cost centre into a business in an attempt reduce overheads . |
| 20 | To begin with , after it has turned the head with its slightly bulky but macho presence , the ergonomics of the thing strike you . |
| 21 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 22 | It has employed a dual strategy to achieve these two objectives . |
| 23 | ‘ The phone 's been out of order all week , and the man who came to mend it has broken a lamp I was very fond of . ’ |
| 24 | The Colombo government believes it has broken the back of the rebellion in the south by leftwing Sinhalese guerrillas , but is still faced with near anarchy in the Tamil north and east . |
| 25 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 26 | Pouring over its latest simulation runs , Sun is confident it has broken the back of the technical problem . |
| 27 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 28 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 29 | WWF-Malaysia is opposed to the tropical timber boycott advocated by most environmental groups , and it has echoed the Malaysian government 's complaints that European environmental groups are using misinformation in their campaigns [ see EDs 57 , 58 ] . |
| 30 | It has rejected the use of punitive taxes to discourage proliferation of company cars , on the grounds that this would increase private ownership of older and less efficient vehicles . |