Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is obvious that the government does n't know how to respond to the messes it has partly created and partly suffers from .
2 And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year .
3 It has also observed and made case studies of a ‘ typical day ’ in many of these classrooms .
4 It has also ensured that some of the proposals , particularly those concerned with improving access to health services , have been incorporated into the federal budget plans for 1992–3 and the five yearly hospital funding agreements between state and federal governments .
5 It has also warned that some customers could be faced with paying more if it lost its hold on the household market .
6 But it has also illustrated that our future world is not just difficult to predict in practice ; it is also theoretically impossible .
7 It has also to establish that there are no reasons against its acceptance which defeat the reasons for the authority .
8 It has also shown that they are only a part of the explanation of Africa 's problems ; a difficult agricultural base , the inequalities of the world trading system , the sometimes exploitative role of multinational companies have also had a major part to play .
9 It has also shown that 90 per cent of the costs of the Princeton centre and its free newsletter are paid by M and M Mars , a division of Mars Inc , makers of the Mars Bar and a host of other sweets .
10 It has also shown that these groups of people and institutions have been involved in widespread breaches of the law .
11 It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions .
12 It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives .
13 It has also proposed that the abduction offences should become gender neutral .
14 Not only has this reduced the operating costs , but it has also meant that for the first time in its history the Central Wales Line has been able to support a Sunday service ; indeed in July 1987 , one Sunday saw fourteen train movements , what with BR 's own service train , the various Recreation Ramblers , sponsored by the Sports Council , and two excursion rail tours .
15 The advent of mass owner occupation has not only meant widespread property ownership for the first time , it has also meant that inheritance of house property has become increasingly common .
16 It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard .
17 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 .
18 This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered .
19 It has since emerged that several aircrew were reluctant to continue the slaughter .
20 When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump .
21 It has clearly listened and understood .
22 The Commission 's record on attacking cartels and concerted practices is impressive , for it has vigorously pursued and successfully secured the termination of a substantial number and variety of concerted practices .
23 I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again .
24 It was reported in yesterday 's press , however , that North Korea has now agreed to the principle of the nuclear-free Korean peninsula , although it has yet to confirm that it will open up its nuclear installations at Yongbyon and any underground sites to inspection .
25 And best of all , the Royston , Hertfordshire-based company has simply taken technology that it has already developed and used it in a creative way , which means the newspaper should be relatively cheap — no pricing was available , however , as the firm builds bespoke systems to suit a customers individual needs .
26 the nature of the illness or injury , how long it has already continued and your prospects for recovery ;
27 It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked .
28 Yet it has only survived because Lavenham , as a town , failed .
29 It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract .
30 It has now emerged that he removed a total of six books from the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam .
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