Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RTC says the suit was filed against AA when it failed to negotiate an out-of-court settlement . |
| 2 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 3 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 4 | It has planned an exciting programme of activities for its first ever BAYSDAY which it hopes will be attended by young people of secondary school age from all over the country . |
| 5 | It has imposed an economic blockade , requiring permits for supplies and cutting off essentials like construction materials , tools and fertilizer . |
| 6 | It is being sold as a war in the U.S. and it has reached an emotional level to equal that of contests of a more combative nature like boxing or American football . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Aside from its Newsprint deal with Adobe Systems Inc , Mountain View , announced that it has made an undisclosed equity investment in Verity Inc , a document-retrieval technology company and its neighbour . |
| 9 | Its role was partly that of a forum , partly a catalyst , and partly that of an intellectual resource which feeds in ideas and information ; over the years it has developed an outstanding reputation for encouraging and sustaining an informed dialogue between local movements . |
| 10 | Over the years it has developed an international reputation in research on student learning strategies , critical analysis of adult basic and overseas education , and in educational philosophy and policy . |
| 11 | Retix Inc , Santa Monica , California says it has developed an Open Systems Interconnection-compliant distributed transaction processing communications manager , which enables different transaction processing monitors to communicate and interoperate with each other . |
| 12 | Thus , so far as the Tribunal is concerned , Parliament accepted a privative clause of a kind which is unprecedented in modern English law , purporting to do what no Parliament has done before — it has given an administrative tribunal the power to determine its own jurisdiction . |
| 13 | The Government has thus done what no government before has done — it has given an inferior tribunal the power to determine the extent of its own jurisdiction . |
| 14 | It has become an ingratiatory sign . |
| 15 | It has become an established part of police operations . |
| 16 | With its expertise in a wide range of tropical diseases , especially malaria ( this issue , p 731 ) , it has become an international teaching house and research centre for such matters . |
| 17 | It has become an important feature of business with developing countries and eastern European countries which do not have the financial or borrowing capability to make large investments in plant , machinery or construction projects . |
| 18 | It has become an important aspect of the response by both government and individual older workers to the current continuing economic recession in the labour market . |
| 19 | Modern phenolic glued plywood is quite impermeable to water , in the sense that the veneers will not come apart when it is soaked , and it has become an important material in modern boatbuilding . |
| 20 | Since the reserviour was built it has become an important tourist and recreational centre but now none of the businesses can be sure they have a future . |
| 21 | Commentators still tend to remark on the informality of industrial tribunal procedure ( Farmer , 1974 ; Walker , 1985 ) , but the industrial tribunal 's rules of procedure are no longer informal , and it has become an adversarial forum ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Historically it has played an intrinsic role in the coping strategies of rural households . |
| 23 | And it has suffered an extraordinary series of mishaps over the past decade . |
| 24 | It has provided an essential cement for the whole of the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | While the practical impact of PPB can best be described as marginal , it has provided an important contribution in terms of new ideas for the potentiality of a system of output budgeting . |
| 26 | For some years , it has had an associate office in Accra , Ghana 's capital city . |
| 27 | And , again like the students , it has issued an official list of permitted slogans , ordering citizens to memorise 40 different chants to mark the 40th anniversary of communist rule . |
| 28 | It has introduced an ambitious Company Plan which will lead to better service , cleaner trains and more staff at stations and on platforms . |
| 29 | For many years it has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in Latin American studies , and recent publications in this area include Edwin Williamson , The Penguin History of Latin America . |
| 30 | It has won an important contract with Eurodisney and has substantially increased its exports which now account for over three-quarters of its sales . |