Example sentences of "it have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
2 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
3 | Any movement of the mouse will change the pattern that the chip detects and it can instantly calculate how far it has moved in any direction . |
4 | ( It has to go through all stages in both Houses and receive the Royal Assent . ) |
5 | From its original base in Woolwich , it has expanded to several locations in south east London , each offering a wide range of teaching and recreational facilities in attractive surroundings . |
6 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
7 | take proceedings at its own expense and for its own benefit , but in your name , or in the name of anyone else insured by this policy , to recover any payment it has made under this policy |
8 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
9 | But that is what it has become in many churches where it is surrounded by a po-faced atmosphere akin to a dentist 's waiting room . |
10 | It has emerged in many countries that , as the standard of living rises , it is more and more difficult to run an autocratic production system using the indigenous labour force . |
11 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
12 | Methods of contraception and details of the menstrual cycle — whether it has altered in any way , how regular it is — will be asked , and also details of the symptoms , if any , that prompted attendance . |
13 | The ratio of girls to boys going to university fluctuated from 70 per cent in 1925 ; 50 per cent in 1937 ; 47 per cent in 1950 ; 50 per cent in 1960 ; 66 per cent in 1973 ; and it has remained at that level since . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Because the film includes no genital close-ups or explicit sexual activity , it has played in many parts of the world , occasionally with a classification less restrictive than that given to so-called ‘ hardcore ’ sex films . |
16 | How far it has progressed down that road no-one is sure . |
17 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
18 | If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world . |
19 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
20 | The offer caused mass protests and eventually the firm pulled out , but now it has put in another bid , believed to be £5m . |
21 | Criticism of the team and its management has been stinging through the season and much of it has come from former players . |
22 | It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage . |
23 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
24 | It has meant in some schemes there is only just enough money to pay current penioners , with nothing left for people approaching retirement age . |
25 | It has resulted in some cases in ‘ banality rather than simplicity ’ . |
26 | Nuts have been put out by bird lovers but it has resulted in several greenfinches being poisoned . |
27 | It has happened on both sides . |
28 | He said that he said it does n't happen in York , but it has happened in some places you know . |
29 | I know that it has happened in some regions , but that is certainly not evident in the areas of which I am most aware , where the problem seems great . |
30 | Over the years , it has passed through many hands since Sir John Winter established it , including members of the Foley and Lloyd families . |