Example sentences of "it have [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become a cliche to say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe , but that fact still struck me as a stunning truth on this , my first visit there . |
| 2 | It has become a ritual to return via Roydon Common , for there is always the chance on this bossy stretch of heath land of wintering hen harriers . |
| 3 | For the young , death is so unreal that it has become a pleasure to play with , part of the fantasy of violence . |
| 4 | For instance , it has become a cliché to describe Asia-Pacific as the world 's most dynamic economic area . |
| 5 | It is eager to scotch rumours that the withdrawal of the Official Custodian will mean that its COIF ( Charities Official Investment Funds ) common investment funds will also disappear , and for the first time it has issued a brochure to advertise its products . |
| 6 | Though the London market was slow to recover from the great crash in October 1987 , it has enjoyed a bumper run in 1989 . |
| 7 | Telecom Australia , which trades off-shore as Telstra , says it has won a licence to build and operate a digital cellular telephone service in New Zealand ; Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd will also face competition in the cellular market from BellSouth Corp , expected to launch its network next month . |
| 8 | You should try to prevent this situation arising , possibly by exercising the dog on the leash for a day or so if it has shown a tendency to behave in this fashion in the past . |
| 9 | Each year it has produced a report setting out the state of the education service , and each year Ministers have treated that report as though it were a piece of stinking fish . |
| 10 | It has published a survey showing that for Dyfed council in Wales , for instance , energy equivalent to the authority 's annual electricity requirements could be generated locally from renewable sources , and that by the year 2000 Cornwall could meet one fifth of its energy needs locally , mainly from renewable sources . |
| 11 | It has to find a way to appeal to younger drivers . |
| 12 | And that 's the valve , we , we , call it valve business basic , it 's done at Dunstable , it 's not the same as the sort of resolving style er gears , even though it has got a gear to produce a and it joins it later on , so there 's the other ball bearings business for the gears , yeah ? |
| 13 | The bank is also putting cash behind a research centre for industrial automation at Durham University ; and it has financed a study to determine whether ideas emanating from London 's Imperial College have a chance of leading to commercial products . |
| 14 | Now , one group working at DESY believes it has found a way to differentiate the effects of the gluon from those of the quarks produced in electron-positron collisions . |
| 15 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 16 | The Malaysian government this month announced that it has dropped a scheme to flood the country 's oldest and largest national park , Taman Negara by damming the Tembeling river . |
| 17 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Property Management , of Darlington , claimed it had served a notice to quit on Finnegan last September . |
| 21 | By the third quarter of the century , it had become a dye works , producing dyestuffs from logwood . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 24 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 25 | It had seemed a dream come true . |
| 26 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 27 | Over 60 years later Walworth Road has not been widened , the freehold is now vested in the appellant second to fourth defendants , who purchased the property from the first defendant , the London Residuary Body after it had issued a notice to quit , the defendants have no road making powers and it does not appear that the road will ever be widened . |
| 28 | It 's got a man smashing his head in and killing his dad . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's got a will to live . |
| 30 | It save it every nine minutes or something , it 's got a backup save , you know on the |