Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 2 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 3 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 4 | ‘ It has gone into a room to have water showering on it , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | But otherwise it has survived on a diet of small deals while making a nice living rewinding British industry 's electric motors . |
| 6 | On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance . |
| 7 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 8 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 9 | However , the SEA has resulted in a dramatic increase in the activities of the EC , and it has led to a chain of events which have focused attention on the EC as being one of the most successful and dynamic economic agencies in the world . |
| 10 | However , the next owner dismantled the walls in 1685 , since when it has remained in a state of decay . |
| 11 | Traffic has grown by 50 per cent in a decade in which it has operated without a subsidy . |
| 12 | For example , because LOEX only acquires one or two copies of each item of user education material from depositors , and because it is a nationwide service , it has opted for a loan system , with no material for retention . |
| 13 | To mix the metaphor , Western trade has been a sedative , not a tonic ; it has acted as a brake on reform , not a stimulant . |
| 14 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |
| 15 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 16 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
| 17 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 18 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 19 | Instead , it has proceeded with a kind of respectful subservience to traditional science , which in the past extended to uncritical acceptance of positivist traditions and a self-identification as a sort of social engineering . |
| 20 | If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’ |
| 21 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |
| 22 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 23 | We saw earlier that the move to greater inequality in income had been so marked that it has triggered off a widening of other class differences ( detailed in Part I ) . |
| 24 | A paper by the Russian scientist D. Ivanovsky , published in 1892 and often regarded as the beginning of the science of virology , describes how a disease of tobacco plants can be transmitted by the sap after it has passed through a filter capable of retaining bacteria and other particles . |
| 25 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 26 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 27 | It had functioned as a workshop throughout , in contrast with the other two which remained entirely agricultural . |
| 28 | There was a dawdle in its pace , and there had been times when it had halted completely , other times when it had slowed to a crawl . |
| 29 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 30 | The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) held no post , as it had stipulated as a condition the creation of a Ministry for National Minorities . |