Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 2 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 3 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 4 | ‘ It has gone into a room to have water showering on it , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | But otherwise it has survived on a diet of small deals while making a nice living rewinding British industry 's electric motors . |
| 6 | On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance . |
| 7 | Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash . |
| 8 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 9 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 10 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 11 | However , the SEA has resulted in a dramatic increase in the activities of the EC , and it has led to a chain of events which have focused attention on the EC as being one of the most successful and dynamic economic agencies in the world . |
| 12 | However , the next owner dismantled the walls in 1685 , since when it has remained in a state of decay . |
| 13 | Traffic has grown by 50 per cent in a decade in which it has operated without a subsidy . |
| 14 | For example , because LOEX only acquires one or two copies of each item of user education material from depositors , and because it is a nationwide service , it has opted for a loan system , with no material for retention . |
| 15 | To mix the metaphor , Western trade has been a sedative , not a tonic ; it has acted as a brake on reform , not a stimulant . |
| 16 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |
| 17 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 18 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 19 | I think that Yugoslavia as we know it has come to an end . |
| 20 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
| 21 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 22 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 23 | More significantly , for the long term future of the industry , it has launched into a series of alliances , including a development partership with long-time rival Apple , with chip maker Motorola thrown in for good measure , and former IBM allies Intel and Microsoft left out in the cold . |
| 24 | Instead , it has proceeded with a kind of respectful subservience to traditional science , which in the past extended to uncritical acceptance of positivist traditions and a self-identification as a sort of social engineering . |
| 25 | If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 27 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 28 | ‘ And it has resulted in an increase in business . ’ |
| 29 | It has evolved as an idea from a previous initiative in 1983 known as management budgeting . |
| 30 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |