Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also made a number of acquisitions of mainly small specialist companies . |
| 2 | It has also provoked a spate of anti-Oxfam stories in the British media . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Class analysis alone is inadequate for an understanding of the policies of Thatcherism , for it has also disturbed a number of middle-class interests . |
| 6 | It has also adopted a set of Directives in order to harmonise legislation and conditions for access to the network . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has also secured a share of the £200,000 which KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock is handing out in a tripartite sponsorship deal . |
| 9 | It has also begun a research and development programme to tackle tropical diseases . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It has also signed a deal with Convex to develop compilers for the US company 's multiprocessing systems . |
| 12 | A green Renault 18 , it has just rammed a car at the junction with A253 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Bank is wooing retail investors ; it has just published a booklet on the virtues of gilts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How could the Vendor subsequently defend itself if it has effectively admitted a breach ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has already sold a business in Belgium and closed one in France because they lacked ‘ critical mass ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It has already bought a component distributor in Canada and is starting one in Virginia . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 27 | So that it 's it it has certainly got a lot of value an exercise like that , even with entirely good conditions . |
| 28 | Telecom Eireann is cutting international rates but raising the cost of local calls to put tariffs more closely in line with costs , but it has predictably met a storm of protest from the consumer lobbies . |
| 29 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 30 | It is perhaps interesting to note that whilst the LMS legislation would appear to be part of a wider strategy for the control of public expenditure , it has now spawned a range of better-informed pressure groups which , when focusing on the quality of the education service , find themselves increasingly calling for greater expenditure on books , teaching materials , equipment and the maintenance of school premises ! |