Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 It has received formal approval from the Justice Ministry , which ruled that the Party 's programme is acceptable under the recently-approved Law on Political parties .
32 The service is short of 369 lawyers , but it has received 517 inquiries about its own articled clerk and pupillage scheme launched in May .
33 It has saved some breweries from takeover , and encouraged new ones to open .
34 In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society .
35 As the National Coal Board has continued to cut coal-mining employment there after the end of the strike , it has placed great emphasis upon the role of its job-creating subsidiary , NCB ( Enterprises ) in providing alternative jobs .
36 It has enabled joint training of staff to deal with the prominent client groups : gay men , drug users , and people who have contracted HIV through contaminated blood .
37 In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense .
38 The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily .
39 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
40 As it has to pump more blood round the body to service the muscles you 're using , it will get bigger and stronger in order to do so more efficiently .
41 This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training .
42 It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer .
43 Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals .
44 In that time , it has created new philosophy within Scottish Nuclear for getting things done , improving the way we work , and making significant savings in the company 's costs .
45 Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another .
46 IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’
47 There is evidence that it has killed large quantities of worms , crabs , molluscs and starfish .
48 For much of 1980s , it has devised urban policies of a more imaginative and consensual nature than central government was able to create in England .
49 Take education : it has made gigantic strides against bitter opposition to reform the system , to raise standards , to monitor the results and to draw industry closer to the academic and the educational world . ’
50 This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years .
51 It has achieved remarkable success in winning money from the European funding programmes .
52 It has survived several challenges by federal investigators .
53 It has undergone drastic changes over the past few years .
54 It has affected different parts of the country in very different ways .
55 It has developed two types of condition .
56 The private sector does not aim to produce a comprehensive system of health care ; in Britain it has developed specialized aspects of health care provision .
57 It has sought effective compliance in public contracts to national and EC standards , close attention to sub-contracting arrangements and monitoring of cross-frontier activities .
58 The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author .
59 China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British .
60 For many years now it has given much pleasure to both young and old .
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