Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galarrwuy Yunupingu , chairman of the aboriginal Northern Lands Council , welcomed the decision and predicted that the federal government would face a " barrage of litigation " unless it moved quickly to negotiate a treaty with the aborigines . |
| 2 | It has also made a number of acquisitions of mainly small specialist companies . |
| 3 | It has also provoked a spate of anti-Oxfam stories in the British media . |
| 4 | It has also given a commitment to ‘ investigate and develop appropriate child care options according to local needs ’ , including the possibility of secured places at local nurseries . |
| 5 | It has also formed a Candle Advanced Solution Institute through which it plans to share its experiences and recommendations in areas of client-server computing , open systems and object oriented software for the mainframe and other environments . |
| 6 | Class analysis alone is inadequate for an understanding of the policies of Thatcherism , for it has also disturbed a number of middle-class interests . |
| 7 | It has also adopted a set of Directives in order to harmonise legislation and conditions for access to the network . |
| 8 | The government 's compensation of the airlines comes when it has also announced a compensation deal worth A$60m with the troubled Australian subsidiary of the American photographic giant Eastman Kodak . |
| 9 | It has also secured a share of the £200,000 which KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock is handing out in a tripartite sponsorship deal . |
| 10 | It has also begun a research and development programme to tackle tropical diseases . |
| 11 | This is basically a protective action , an attempt to save the eyes from possible danger , but it has also become a way of reducing the unbearable tension of the moment . |
| 12 | It has also cut a swathe through the battalions of ordinary people who do the non-famous jobs , the ones who keep things going in publishing houses , museums and symphony halls . |
| 13 | It has also run a distance learning programme for 628 students in 12 countries . |
| 14 | It has also signed a deal with Convex to develop compilers for the US company 's multiprocessing systems . |
| 15 | A green Renault 18 , it has just rammed a car at the junction with A253 . |
| 16 | It has just become a reality . |
| 17 | For example it has just formed a partnership with Lotus , the computer software giant , to allow users of ‘ cc:Mail ’ the Lotus electronic mail system to send and receive messages while they are on the move . |
| 18 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 19 | The Bank is wooing retail investors ; it has just published a booklet on the virtues of gilts . |
| 20 | It has just launched a booklet ‘ The Case Against Tobacco Advertising ’ , which has been sent to all MPs and is endorsed by other charities , medical organisations , the Health Education Authority , NHS Authorities and Trusts and the trade union movement . |
| 21 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 22 | How could the Vendor subsequently defend itself if it has effectively admitted a breach ? |
| 23 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 24 | It has yet to show a match this season . |
| 25 | Hitachi says it has already done a lot of work on the application of image recognition techniques , including the development of a method of automatic Table of Contents generation , which uses the detection of changes in colour distribution to distinguish different frames , thus making possible the automatic analysis of camera work . |
| 26 | It has already sold a business in Belgium and closed one in France because they lacked ‘ critical mass ’ . |
| 27 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 28 | It has already bought a component distributor in Canada and is starting one in Virginia . |
| 29 | Simplicity need not always mean economy , but it has traditionally created a bias towards the single-purpose system , which allows concentration on point-design performance , as opposed to the multipurpose system common to Western inventories , which demands complicated and sophisticated design solutions . |
| 30 | It has indeed made a saving of some £3 billion , but the costs of the rebates paid so far has been estimated at around three times that much . |