Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 2 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 3 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 4 | It has contributed to the decline in direct portfolio investment as opposed to indirect investment through tax exempt institutions . |
| 5 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 6 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 7 | This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old , but already it has grown beyond the founders ' wildest dreams . |
| 8 | I think it has grown in the telling . |
| 9 | It has declared in the past that since British powers stations are able to meet targets for reducing the emissions that cause acid rain , research on the problem may no longer be a top priority . |
| 10 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 11 | A statement read : ‘ We now believe that the decision to employ John Birt other than as a staff member was a mistake and we deeply regret the dismay it has caused to the public and to BBC staff . |
| 12 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 13 | THE DUKE of Westminster , said to be Britain 's richest man , has resigned from the Conservative Party , claiming it has gone off the rails . |
| 14 | Most of it is ‘ Convent'-ional and so far ‘ Nun ’ of it has gone off the books ! |
| 15 | In the next , only two-hundredths of a second later , it has gone through the release . |
| 16 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 17 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 18 | We have to admit that happiness has no integrity unless it has burst through the clouds of sorrow . |
| 19 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 20 | It has reached beyond the dealers to the previously untapped market of individual buyers . |
| 21 | The company has been there ever since — thank God , in view of the employment that it has created in the area . |
| 22 | As a result , the marketing mix must have : Strategic elements ( for instance , the company must decide what kinds of products or services it wishes to produce , given the choices it has made about the target markets it wants to satisfy . |
| 23 | For an industrial waste producer , a college , hospital etc , the extent to which the duty applies will vary according to the arrangements it has made for the disposal of the waste ( see box ) . |
| 24 | He said that IBM will be looking to develop a number of corporate alliances similar to arrangements it has made in the past , which include joint manufacturing arrangements , equity investments and cross-licensing . |
| 25 | It has survived with the tenacity of life itself , and thereby becomes the justification for the creation of a ‘ god-based ’ religion that would ultimately appeal to all people . |
| 26 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering systems it now offers . |
| 27 | The company is cutting its multiprocessing teeth on this technology and the parallelising software it has developed for the clustering solutions it now offers . |
| 28 | The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside . |
| 29 | It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment . |
| 30 | It has existed in the past because , as noted , the underclass has been in the process of transition — that from a lesser life , and with the prospect of generational escape . |