Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.

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31 Well the er consumer appreciation outlined er again that 's divided into two areas and it 's based on the socioeconomic groups and the purchasing patterns of the members of the public .
32 And it 's found , it 's found most of your spelling errors and it 's counted the words for you .
33 ‘ I know Hitler is always falling out with foreign countries but it 's got nothing to do with us , has it ? ’
34 The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions .
35 One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed .
36 You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time .
37 the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and
38 and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty !
39 We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation .
40 It then works its way back through all the calls until it has completed the final multiplication , when it returns the answer .
41 But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred .
42 We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed .
43 To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at .
44 The company should then use the segments that it has defined as targets against which products may be positioned .
45 Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack .
46 It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott .
47 However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled .
48 The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre .
49 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
50 Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing .
51 In the 1960s , the Fraternity of Salvadorean Women sought to incorporate women into the political opposition through addressing their specific needs and it has functioned as something of a model for the organizations founded in the late 1970s .
52 We care about low pay and low incomes and it 's estimated that in this country this so-called wealthy country that we have about eleven million people now on or just below E C poverty standards .
53 Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears .
54 The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought .
55 ‘ Now , Roger , it 's obvious — you have worn that chain for a few days and it has left a mark .
56 A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets .
57 Although you will not be able to take your puppy out for a walk in public places until it has completed its course of inoculation , at about 12 weeks old , the intervening weeks up to this point will be useful in familiarizing the dog with walking on a leash .
58 We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work .
59 about three years and it has bled a couple of times .
60 Now I have to be careful what I say about Lady Thatcher 's because of the laws of libel and also I do n't know who 's written which pieces but it 's known she 's had help you see .
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