Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the church breaks through this isolation it has created a potential for growth . |
| 2 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 3 | A significant factor was that much of the stock it sells comes from the Scottish side of the border . |
| 4 | But without a political deal it risks turning bad . |
| 5 | Perhaps the heat had given his mind the boost it needed to throw off the dream world that had gradually surrounded him since Paula 's fall into the maw of the Beast . |
| 6 | I welcome the partnership it has established with voluntary organisations . |
| 7 | He has given instructions to his new General to use whatever force it takes to destroy them , and at whatever cost . |
| 8 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |
| 9 | In quick succession it has passed through three lives . |
| 10 | Whilst being unsophisticated in terms of typography it does allow you to create documents which contain ‘ live ’ spreadsheets . |
| 11 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 12 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 13 | As a result it has seen sales climb by a third in the first four months of this year . |
| 14 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 15 | For all the good it had done . |
| 16 | However , having started back at the club it has become apparent that the club has no intention of coaching last season 's players to highlight weaknesses and prepare them for the higher level of rugby . |
| 17 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 18 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 19 | Although acknowledging that since the implementation of a structural adjustment programme it had managed to halt continual economic decline , the government was nonetheless disappointed by the poor performance . |
| 20 | It also has to fact the threat of potential domestic unrest as the IMF structural economic reform programme it has adopted begins to bite . |
| 21 | All money which people save has to be invested somewhere , and when it is taken out of circulation it helps to reduce inflation . |
| 22 | When in opposition it has proved it 's policies of a minimum wage , a jobs tax , social charter , support and and s er strikers charter that they would never learn . |
| 23 | But to my mind it 's got the thing the wrong way round . |
| 24 | With this objective in mind it has proposed that the system of interest subsidies , which the government introduced in 1984 , be either abolished or privatised . |
| 25 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 26 | Such manic behaviour I should have found disturbing in normal circumstances , but in my state of extreme tension it had become quite insupportable . |
| 27 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
| 28 | Even the SIB itself appears to be having self-doubts about the unwieldly monster it has created , particularly at a time when the City 's self-regulation will have to be grafted on a more legalistic European Community framework . |
| 29 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
| 30 | It ensured there was no turning back , no switching to alternative paths , no way of avoiding the future it had prepared . |