Example sentences of "it have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 2 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 3 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 4 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 5 | Since then , it has grown into a major production unit in the carpet industry . |
| 6 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 7 | As the inebriated insect totters up , it has to wriggle beneath an overhanging rod which showers it with pollen . |
| 8 | Although normally only architects qualify for the RIBA 's Gold Medal ( considered the world 's most prestigious award for architecture ) , this year it has gone to an Irish structural engineer , the fifty-six year old Peter Rice . |
| 9 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 10 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 11 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 12 | It has collected into a huge ball , two or three feet across . |
| 13 | Since then , it has survived on a one-off grant from the Scottish Office and money donated by private trusts , but these too have run out . |
| 14 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 15 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 16 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 17 | Since the British challenge made its start in 1987 at four locations , it has blossomed into a major feature of up to six kite meetings each year . |
| 18 | Day 11 ) The water temperature released at the dam is 0 degrees Centigrade but here , 100 miles downstream , it has warmed to a comfortable 32 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 19 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 20 | But the chances are it will still be there , and the evidence is that it has existed in a recognizable form throughout human history , everywhere in the world . |
| 21 | As height is genetically determined , it is difficult to see what it has to do with an acquired goal of achievement , except where parents or teachers convince tall children that they are achievers . |
| 22 | Exercising before breakfast seems to ‘ clean the slate ’ for the body , before it has to deal with a new dose of food . |
| 23 | Not only does it risk making heroes and martyrs out of the perpetrators , but in practice it has led to a damaging split between reactive strategies , which are aimed at highly specific target groups , and proactive approaches which rely on nebulous generalities , viz. , ‘ creating the right ethos ’ . |
| 24 | While this is understandable , it has led to an inordinate number of successful appeals . |
| 25 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |
| 26 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 27 | And Littlewoods must be commended for the way it looks after its staff and for the role it has played as a responsible Liverpool employer . |
| 28 | Lyppard Grange is a listed building so the City Council ca n't have it knocked down but it has applied for a compulsory purchase order . |
| 29 | It has called for a global convention outlawing all toxic waste trade schemes — and it needs your support . |
| 30 | The reduction in base rates from 15% to 10% appears to have done relatively little for supply growth , since it has coincided with a gradual downgrading of recovery prospects by most analysts . |