Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a great deal of academic research work is never heard of again once it has served its basic purpose of obtaining another qualification for its originator . ’ |
| 2 | Under Mr Reichardt 's knife , it has cut its international operations to concentrate on California , and earned a reputation as one of America 's best-run banks . |
| 3 | Almost anywhere where a substantial Palestinian community exists it has generated its own institutions for social , economic as well as political activity . |
| 4 | It has generated its own publications many of which are difficult to follow if you are not actively involved in one way or another . |
| 5 | Iraq offers talks with the USA ( which the US side rejects ) and announces that it has completed its military withdrawal from Iranian territory . |
| 6 | It has placed its diplomatic future in the hands of one outside power , and this may eventually prove more dangerous than adopting a less aggressive policy towards its neighbours . |
| 7 | So some people might say perhaps perversely that it th it has achieved its desired effect , it 's toughened you up . |
| 8 | The principle of rapacious egoism , Shakespeare shows , does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal . |
| 9 | It has developed its own operating systems ( the basic software on which the firm 's machines run ) and its own international marketing organisation , with an emphasis on personal computers . |
| 10 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 11 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 12 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 13 | It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated . |
| 14 | Following the purchase of a Finnish company , it has landed its first contract with the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | It was an unexpected rest and it has taught me many things , like patience . ’ |
| 16 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 17 | IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast . |
| 18 | It has lost its managing director , and has moved to smaller premises . |
| 19 | From being a much sought-after residential area , it has lost its fashionable air . |
| 20 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
| 21 | Because it has remained in use all this time , and has been continually adapted to heavier traffic , it has lost its original character except in two respects . |
| 22 | With only half the contents missing , it has paid me ten dollars more . |
| 23 | But the bottom line for most of BP 's 8,000 Scottish employees are the indicators which the results give about the state of the company 's ‘ core ’ exploration and production business based on operations in the North Sea and other areas where it has concentrated its upstream operating resources . |
| 24 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 25 | Although this message is unlikely to be one that LDDC highlights when it approaches Whitehall for money , there is no doubting it has shifted its public relations away from targeting solely yuppies and City businessmen . |
| 26 | Now that Spain is emerging as a more exciting holiday destination , it has acquired its own version of the Orient Express — the Al Andalus . |
| 27 | Phaidon 's first 40 titles for the US , for which it has produced its own catalogue , will appear in the spring . |
| 28 | In parallel it has made an increasing contribution to the economy for , besides more employment , it has multiplied its overseas earnings nine-fold , from £3.7 million to £34.6 million . |
| 29 | It has adapted its primary product , the PowerHouse applications generator for use in Japan and to date , has over 2,000 Japanese installations . |
| 30 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |