Example sentences of "[that] it have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished frantically to go faster , and the broomstick sped away ; but as it spurted past , the weathercock made a savage peck at it , and Carol , glancing round , saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak . |
| 2 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 3 | Last week , a group from Boston 's Joslin diabetes centre announced that it had devised a blood test that can identify children most at risk . |
| 4 | The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment . |
| 5 | The Ministry of the Interior had announced on June 11 that it had discovered a plot to assassinate Chamorro , Lacayo and the Army C.-in-C. , Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra . |
| 6 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 7 | Last November the company admitted that it had discovered a series of accounting errors by the subsidiary 's finance director that had overstated stock figures to boost profits from 1989 . |
| 8 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |
| 9 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 11 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 12 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 13 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 14 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
| 15 | W R Grace gained a patent on neem extract , which it called Margosan-O , in 1988 , claiming that it had developed a means of stabilizing the extracts . |
| 16 | On Nov. 10 Byelarus said that it had uncovered a smuggling ring engaged in carrying Russian uranium to Poland . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the justice ministry said yesterday that it had barred a judge from investigating how the prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy , came to receive an interest-free loan in 1986 from a financier later charged with insider trading . |
| 18 | After months of debate the Australian government announced on Nov. 23 that it had lifted a ban on homosexuals in the armed forces . |
| 19 | Rejecting " the right of the United States to be the policeman of the Caribbean " , the government claimed that it had offered a search by the Mexican authorities . |
| 20 | In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government . |
| 21 | On Nov. 28 the FIS 's consultative council announced that it had postponed a decision on participation in the election " in order to give the regime another opportunity to spell out its intention to clear the political atmosphere " . |
| 22 | There amidst the general gloom was a report from Hong Kong Land that it had sold a property in the colony achieving a profit of approximately £273m . |
| 23 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 24 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on May 4 that it had approved a credit equivalent to 5,860,000 special drawing rights ( about US$8,000,000 ) . |
| 25 | The IMF announced on March 27 that it had approved a drawing by Israel equivalent to SDR |
| 26 | The executive committee of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) announced on Jan. 5 , at the end of a two-day meeting in Moscow , that it had approved a set of what it called " proposals for the radical overhaul of the system of economic co-operation by member states , including a draft charter for a new organization " . |
| 27 | In a press release dated April 8 , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had approved a loan equivalent to 8,790,000 special drawing rights ( SDR1=US$1.35476 as at April 8 , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | A GROUP claiming to represent Abu Nidal 's Palestinian assassination organisation claimed yesterday that it had murdered a leader of the Jewish community in Belgium because he was ‘ one of the main leaders of Israel 's Mossad secret service ’ . |
| 29 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 30 | Ambitious Toronto-based systems integrator and facilities manager SHL Systemhouse Inc on Friday announced that it had signed a letter of intent to buy City of London-based banking and financial services systems company AST Trans-Act Ltd . |