Example sentences of "it have [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs .
2 Ayala Corp , the Philippines biggest conglomerate says it has signed a generalised telecommunications co-operation agreement with the state owned Singapore Telecom Ltd .
3 The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion .
4 Meanwhile , AT&T said it has introduced a flexible benefits programme to help control health-care costs .
5 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers .
6 In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports .
7 It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) .
8 It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 .
9 It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months .
10 I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully .
11 It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier .
12 If only it had come a few years earlier .
13 It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer .
14 It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life .
15 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
16 If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that .
17 The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out .
18 there are bound to be occasions and er it 's happened a few occasions during my political life , where you do er find agreement with people of of various parties .
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