Example sentences of "[coord] it has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems .
2 It is called the recession and it has blighted the lives of thousands of people who want no more than to earn an honest living and take pride in bringing up their families .
3 If trust is to establish itself again , it has to do so by such devious and long-winded means , and it has to use the tools of its antitype .
4 And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action .
5 ‘ You mean you have to throw it , and it has to hit the target ? ’
6 I think just about everyone knows the Neon Tetra and it has hit the top of the polls regularly as people 's most favourite fish .
7 And it has enabled the Met to build up an institution that makes the arts splendidly accessible to the general public , without it indulging in crass commercialisation .
8 The bad weather has meant that farmers have not been able to bring the harvest in , and it has devastated the tourist industry .
9 According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted .
10 The present economic recession has highlighted the growing problems of financing an expanding education system and it has revived the debate on the contribution of education , and particularly higher education , to economic growth .
11 And it has solved the problem of accommodating Bach 's tessitura , which often extends beyond the capabilities of violin and viola , in an ingenious manner of which we might easily imagine Bach himself to have approved .
12 Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water .
13 The discussion has several times strayed into semiological terminology and it has taken the nature of ideology largely for granted ; both signification and ideology in popular music demand detailed study .
14 With IBM UK Ltd now outsourcing that sort of ancillary operation , it is a little surprising that the company bid for the contract to run the UK government 's Citizen 's Charter national help-line , a phone service intended to provide advice on how to go about complaining about the performance of 1,400 government services — but it did bid , and it has won the contract .
15 The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes .
16 But it has destroyed the rajathuk .
17 It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith .
18 But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 .
19 Success has n't solved all their problems — Cindy Wilson has taken time off to be temporarily replaced by David Lynch 's protegee Julee Cruise — but it has put the bounce back into the bouffant bop from which their name is derived ( a B-52 being a hairdo ) .
20 She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve .
21 It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work .
22 True , even with those drawbacks , NATO functions well , but it has had the advantage of 350,000 American service men and ourselves , all of whom speak a common language .
23 He says the RSPCA has been following the case closely but it has to accept the court decision .
24 The recession has nearly blown itself out but it has left the Government with a massive deficit of £40bn-£50bn and this will have to be funded through gilts , cost cuts or taxes .
25 That not only outraged the international media , but it has brought the game into disrepute .
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