Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country . |
2 | British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company . |
3 | A spokesman said : ‘ It has become virtually a one-man book , with almost all the bets on the mighty Quinn . |
4 | I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ . |
5 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
6 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
7 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |
8 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
9 | Forte says it has lined up a dozen beta sites among Fortune 1000 accounts — it can not publicly identify yet . |
10 | With its motto ‘ Rottweiler breeding is working dog breeding ’ , it has put together a unique package where no dog can become a show champion without first having working qualifications . |
11 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
12 | It has set up a new division to do the job — its first venture into direct selling . |
13 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
14 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
15 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
16 | It has not only failed in this , it has opened up a potential new division between private practice and employed lawyers . |
17 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
18 | In introducing the subject Grant commented that while it was important in crime investigation , it has taken on a new significance in the past year because of the large number of valuable documents that had been damaged as a result of fires caused by enemy action . |
19 | ‘ It has taken quite a large chunk out of our lives , ’ he said . |
20 | It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth 's surface . |
21 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
22 | Informix Software Inc has indicated that it plans to set up a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary during 1993 , according to ComputerWorld Japan . |
23 | TNC still needs to be tailored by OEMs for specific Unix flavours , although the company says it plans to bring out a shrink-wrapped version in the future . |
24 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
25 | Perhaps , one is tempted to retort , much in the spirit of Mary Jane and ‘ lovely rice pudding again' , it helps to build up a life-long resistance to anything judged to be a ‘ classic ’ . |
26 | Because it does take out a significant volume of traffic out of Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
27 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
28 | But it does sound quite a big area to me if you have n't got the land in the first place . |
29 | It does look rather a big document , you know . |
30 | It proposes setting up a special forum to look at teenage sexual health in South Tees , headed by Dr Ian Holtby , consultant in public health medicine . |