Example sentences of "[noun] it have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 However , despite its interests in all parts of the Euro-zone bounded by London , Paris and Brussels it has yet to launch its first British project .
2 In practice it has never had to invoke this law .
3 The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 .
4 Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought .
5 The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy .
6 Whenever one organism promotes the fitness of another at its own expense and without reciprocal benefit to itself or benefit to its own genes present in the recipient it has perforce performed an act of induced altruism .
7 It was designed as a safety net , but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers .
8 It is not yet clear exactly how it would expand in this area , but the steps it has already taken are illuminating .
9 In dogs over three months of age , the hepatic-tracheal migration occurs less frequently , and at six months it has almost ceased .
10 Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work .
11 Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken .
12 Although a compulsory element of the curriculum in Scotland it has never held such a high priority at national level .
13 Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled .
14 If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ?
15 Until the Gulf war it had never had to contemplate a high-tech non-nuclear war .
16 Now at the moment it 's still got its headed form set , up here somewhere .
17 It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more .
18 Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left .
19 After this decade of maximum development the stream of migrants dwindled until by the end of the Victorian era it had more-or-less dried up .
20 In the old days it had all seemed worth it — she 'd enjoyed filling stockings and wading through a carpet of toys and dressing the tree and singing carols when they were little .
21 It did n't last ; Spandau and Duran , along with Culture Club and Wham ! , became future corporate Live Aid company rockers , 1980s pop lost its ABC-style irony and became the commodity it had always mocked .
22 Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even .
23 Through their work jewellery ceased to be something merely ornamental but attained a level of artistic and symbolic importance it has rarely equalled since .
24 If the renowned sciences of the ancient Indian sages consisted of all these extravagant follies , mankind has indeed been deceived in the exalted opinion it has long entertained of their wisdom .
25 In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat .
26 Its plans for the CICS business , meantime , include a hybrid system combining elements of PD/MVS ; Radar , its regional analysis tool ; and Eyewitness , the fault diagnostic tool it has just acquired from its Vienna , Virginia-based rival Landmark Systems Corp ( CI No 2,044 ) .
27 After all these years it had finally happened !
28 The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally .
29 When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled .
30 ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said .
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