Example sentences of "it have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the company has an opportunity to make other gains through a 50 per cent stake it has secured with BP in five surrounding blocks where an intensive exploration programme will begin later this year in an attempt to discover other ‘ elephant ’ fields . |
| 2 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 3 | Since the 1930s , it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant . |
| 4 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 5 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 6 | As Sun suggested it would do , it has built in ISDN and multimedia features such as a bundled speaker box and microphone , CD-quality audio and multimedia mail in an OpenWindows 3.0 environment . |
| 7 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 8 | But IBM immediately realized it faced a possible unexpected success , redesigned what was basically Univac 's machine for such mundane applications as payroll , and within five years became the leader in the computer industry , a position it has maintained to this day . |
| 9 | Although the executives of the rugby club were in favour of the earlier offer , the cricket club committee was firmly against it a stand it has maintained to this day . |
| 10 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 11 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 12 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 13 | It has contributed to the decline in direct portfolio investment as opposed to indirect investment through tax exempt institutions . |
| 14 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 15 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 16 | 7.1 Once it is acknowledged that it has to respond to the problem of its employees experiencing violence and aggressive behaviour in the course of their work , it is of vital importance to initiate a formal reporting process . |
| 17 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 18 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 19 | Any movement of the mouse will change the pattern that the chip detects and it can instantly calculate how far it has moved in any direction . |
| 20 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 21 | As BHC says , it has moved from building low-flying aircraft to making high-flying boats . |
| 22 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 23 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 24 | It has turned down NSPCC approaches for funding for research saying Home Office research is sufficient . |
| 25 | My leg , which never mended properly after the accident , has not liked being cooped and cramped and bound , and like a mistreated animal it has turned against its master , making itself all pain . |
| 26 | One is that it has lapsed into chaos . |
| 27 | Whilst the company is well known for its handmade clay plain tiles , this will be the first time it has ventured into the expanding machine-made clay plain tile market . |
| 28 | Is my hon. Friend aware that my constituency is extremely attractive geographically for countries making inward investment in Britain and that it has prospered from such inward investment ? |
| 29 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 30 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |