Example sentences of "[noun sg] it have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 2 | If the renowned sciences of the ancient Indian sages consisted of all these extravagant follies , mankind has indeed been deceived in the exalted opinion it has long entertained of their wisdom . |
| 3 | Its plans for the CICS business , meantime , include a hybrid system combining elements of PD/MVS ; Radar , its regional analysis tool ; and Eyewitness , the fault diagnostic tool it has just acquired from its Vienna , Virginia-based rival Landmark Systems Corp ( CI No 2,044 ) . |
| 4 | This nation of quicksilver individualists has to be stoically unwavering in the economic self-discipline it has belatedly imposed on itself . |
| 5 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 6 | Even though it has n't been domesticated , it is something of a large version of the pig above , and on parts of its eponymous island it has also hybridised with European wild boars : ie , at one end of Java the pigs are Javan warties , at the other end they 're wild boars , and in the middle they 're half and half . |
| 7 | Its not-very-complicated mind was trying to come to terms with the fact that the shape of the nomes — two arms , two legs , a head at the top — was a shape it associated with humans and had learnt to avoid , but the size was the size it had always thought of as a mouthful . |
| 8 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a contract worth $300m to supply telephone exchanges and related equipment to Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Bureau , the largest contract it has yet signed in China ; the contract formalises a broad agreement made back in June 1992 . |
| 9 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 10 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 11 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 12 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 13 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 14 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |
| 15 | Until this year it had hardly occurred in Latin America since the first world war , when indentured workers stopped arriving from Asia . |
| 16 | Now it is ‘ threatened ’ with privatisation it has suddenly blossomed into a loved institution bordering on heritage ’ — The Duchess of Devonshire . |
| 17 | France is quite a nice country it 's just polluted by frenchmen that 's the only trouble . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the numerous developments and debates of the decade had not persuaded a single country to shift from the position it had originally adopted on the European question in the 1940s . |
| 19 | Similarly , it would be erroneous to equate contemporary French fiction exclusively with the nouveau roman , despite the hegemonic position it has clearly occupied since the 1950s : the work of writers as diverse ( and as removed from the nouveau roman and Tel Quel ) as Georges Perec and Michel Tournier also demands the attention of those seeking to map the postmodern . |
| 20 | It was a very difficult period , because whereas retrenchment and redundancy are now something employees understand and accept , this was the first time it had ever happened in ICI since the war . |
| 21 | It 's the first time it 's ever happened to me , you see , and I 'm not in the least afraid any more . " |