Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in practice it has strengthened some countries ' public sectors at the expense of their private ones . |
| 2 | So of course I hope that Iran will use what influence it has to get those hostages released . ’ |
| 3 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 4 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 5 | In the process it has relieved 5000 Canadians who already own dishes from the threat of prosecution . |
| 6 | Since its foundation it has issued 91 volumes of parish registers , 54 volumes of heraldic visitations and 65 drawn from other sources . |
| 7 | But I 'm going to give you a little piece of paper and on the piece of paper it 's got ten questions . |
| 8 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 9 | In addition it has encouraged other landowners to create 460 acres of new woods . |
| 10 | … for an aspiring educational ideology to be able to mount a serious challenge at the national level it has to link three concepts together : the desired society , the type or types of educated individuals necessary for that society , and the educational means to fulfil these two ends . |
| 11 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 12 | For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times . |
| 13 | What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ? |
| 14 | The way it 's got grated ends . |
| 15 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 16 | On both sides of the Irish Sea it has made all practitioners keenly aware of the deep oubliettes of the timetable , in short of the incoherence even of the apparently most broad and balanced curriculum . |
| 17 | Drinking with meals the correct way can actually be ‘ slimming ’ , in that it can helpfully add to the time it takes to consume high-fibre meals . |
| 18 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 19 | At the same time it aims to devote more resources to special training needs . |
| 20 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 21 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 22 | The Committee is quoting the Heilbron Report , and appears to be saying that if the public thinks that a particular law covers certain activities and in fact it does cover these activities , then it should for that reason continue to cover only these activities . |