Example sentences of "it have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 2 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 3 | Midland has tried hard to break the ties , and with its First Direct branchless banking service it has moved ahead of the market , but it needed time and resources and luck . |
| 4 | Although we might over-estimate the risk of crime , it has grown steadily since the last century . |
| 5 | There is still no satisfactory study of the church 's role in Siberia , though in recent years some work on it has begun both in the Soviet Union and in the West . |
| 6 | Now it has gone back towards the middle and as of this moment , drug abuse worldwide is worse than ever . ’ |
| 7 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 8 | Here I must think Wordsworth is deeper than Milton , though I think it has depended more upon the general and gregarious advance of intellect , than individual greatness of Mind From the Paradise Lost and the other Works of Milton , I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves to say , that his Philosophy , human and divine , may be tolerably understood by one not much advanced in years … |
| 9 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 10 | It has sought little from the companies it nationalised in 1982 . |
| 11 | ‘ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions , when they have developed to a certain stage , between classes , nations , states , or political groups , and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes . ’ |
| 12 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 13 | It has to do rather with the infinite , universal wholeness of all things , of that all-embracing totality which may or may not be labelled ‘ God ’ , but which includes and enfolds everything within itself . |
| 14 | The advertising agency as we know it has emerged only in the last fifty years and it will continue to evolve as communication technology changes and mass communication becomes even more sophisticated . |
| 15 | Curiously it has led effectively to the irradification of Cherani bacterium diphtheria from the circulating respiratory flora in this country and the reasons for that are are quite obscure ! |
| 16 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 17 | It could have provided new nursery schools years ago as it has done elsewhere in the county . |
| 18 | It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education . |
| 19 | MALHAM village is one of the " honeypots " of the Dales and , to some extent because of this , it has suffered badly from the effects of visitor pressure . |
| 20 | The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade . |
| 21 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 22 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 23 | It has benefited especially from the growth in the liberalisation of air services and , as a result , three times as many passengers now use the airport as when the Government came to office . |
| 24 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 25 | While British Rail says it ca n't afford to help disabled travellers at Leominster , it has come up with the cash to improve a commuter line that 's been plagued with delays and breakdowns . |
| 26 | ‘ Our Dublin plant has consistently failed to produce the expected results , and it is this unfortunate experience which will weigh heavily against any further investment in Eire ; in much the same way as it has weighed heavily against the UK . |
| 27 | Football hooliganism is not a particularly new phenomenon , nor is it a peculiarly British problem , it has occurred all over the world . |
| 28 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 29 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 30 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |