Example sentences of "it have [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 4 | A feature of the role has been the opportunity it has provided for closer liaison between the Catholic Education Commission and the Department of Education . |
| 5 | The ministry says it has paid for 6,000 miles since the scheme started in 1986 . |
| 6 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 8 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 9 | It has fought for two years to survive the recession , selling assets to cut spiralling debts . |
| 10 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 11 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 12 | This time it has circulated for public comment drafts of five documents . |
| 13 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 14 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 15 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 16 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 17 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 18 | An eye movement period started and after it had persisted for 10 minutes , cold water was sprayed on his back . |
| 19 | By March 1983 it had persisted for 11 months . |
| 20 | In what Kohl described as " a terrible defeat " for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg , Germany 's richest state , the party lost the absolute majority it had held for 20 years . |
| 21 | Well , Christmas was great but now it 's gone for another year . |
| 22 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 23 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |