Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] its [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is not the first time golf has stumbled on its projected step into the 21st century .
2 Since the 1970s , in common with the rest of the industrial world , it has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded .
3 Underlying earnings growth has fallen to its lowest level for almost 25 years and economy-wide productivity has increased , helping push non-oil exports to record levels .
4 In the UK , beer production has fallen to its lowest level for 20 years and distilling production has been cut back dramatically .
5 Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year .
6 And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 .
7 Australia can not claim that it is unaware of the uncertainty about the legal status of Indonesia 's assertion of jurisdictional authority in East Timor and the off-shore waters , and has relied upon its own determination of legality .
8 The door of the grocer 's shop was flung open with a ‘ crash ’ and a small rotund figure , angry as a bee that has sat on its own sting , buzzed past the rubber merchant and accosted the sedan-chair operator .
9 Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business .
10 Its historical importance in the development of modern ideology has come from its unique claim to explain experience , however eccentrically .
11 Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale .
12 Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale .
13 But incredulous , or not , the events happened ( millions of television viewers worldwide watched the Chilean concert ) and as such they typify the massive changes that Amnesty has undergone in its 30-year history .
14 Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users .
15 The programme has met with its biggest success in Indonesia , where the FAO has worked closely with the government .
16 Unemployment has risen to its highest level in four years .
17 For its third year Paris 's Salon du Dessin de Collection has moved from its intimate setting in basement rooms of the Hotel George V to the altogether grander Grand Palais .
18 Yep , stranded in the ITV franchise desert ( '93 , here we come ! ) , it comes as no surprise that recession-hit telly has turned to its own back catalogue for a morale boost .
19 Dr John Coffman , as President of the MDS Group , heads a company which has expanded from its original credit scoring base into three closely related businesses : credit and market analysis , credit management software , and credit consulting and training .
20 In Senegal a collaborative project with the universities of Dakar and Paris-Sud has had as its main objective the development of a simple and reliable technique for estimating groundwater recharge .
21 The city has flowered upon its own offal .
22 Although it has tended during its fairly-long aquarium history to virtually disappear from time to time , it is currently fairly commonly available , so this seems a good time to take a detailed look at this fish and its requirements .
23 This perspective was recognizable in the Poor Law era and has reappeared in its modern form in contemporary welfare ( Pinker , 1982 ; Dale et al . ,
24 Russell Reynolds ' predominance in headhunting in Britain , and its spectacular increase in business with the Big Bang , has contributed to its continuing growth of fee income .
25 The March Formula One motor racing team has laid off its entire workforce after the company was declared insolvent .
26 The Treasury has stuck to its earlier forecast of a £15 billion current-account deficit this year .
27 While the recession has forced most rival manufacturers to slash jobs , Rover has stuck to its voluntary redundancy and early retirement schemes to try to slim down its workforce .
28 Like Lotus , the firm has clung to its popular MS-DOS program for too long .
29 The HFS League has reverted to its original title of the Northern Premier League following the withdrawal of their sponsors .
30 One tree in a school near Worcester has remained in its original position , while the buildings around it have been demolished and rebuilt over the centuries .
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