Example sentences of "it has [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 2 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 3 | It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter . |
| 4 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 5 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 6 | It has received meticulous counsel from one of the nation 's highest courts about what it might wish to say on the subject in the future . |
| 7 | For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate . |
| 8 | It has received formal approval from the Justice Ministry , which ruled that the Party 's programme is acceptable under the recently-approved Law on Political parties . |
| 9 | The service is short of 369 lawyers , but it has received 517 inquiries about its own articled clerk and pupillage scheme launched in May . |
| 10 | It has saved some breweries from takeover , and encouraged new ones to open . |
| 11 | In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society . |
| 12 | As the National Coal Board has continued to cut coal-mining employment there after the end of the strike , it has placed great emphasis upon the role of its job-creating subsidiary , NCB ( Enterprises ) in providing alternative jobs . |
| 13 | It has enabled joint training of staff to deal with the prominent client groups : gay men , drug users , and people who have contracted HIV through contaminated blood . |
| 14 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 15 | The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily . |
| 16 | However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state . |
| 17 | As it has to pump more blood round the body to service the muscles you 're using , it will get bigger and stronger in order to do so more efficiently . |
| 18 | This , with the already established Course I , will continue to operate until it has reached due completion for students currently in training . |
| 19 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 20 | Since 1979 , it has announced special awards to senior women in the visual arts and also mid-career achievement awards for significant contributions to the Women 's Caucus for Art of to the furthering of its goals . |
| 21 | In that time , it has created new philosophy within Scottish Nuclear for getting things done , improving the way we work , and making significant savings in the company 's costs . |
| 22 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 23 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 24 | There is evidence that it has killed large quantities of worms , crabs , molluscs and starfish . |
| 25 | For much of 1980s , it has devised urban policies of a more imaginative and consensual nature than central government was able to create in England . |
| 26 | Take education : it has made gigantic strides against bitter opposition to reform the system , to raise standards , to monitor the results and to draw industry closer to the academic and the educational world . ’ |
| 27 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
| 28 | It has achieved remarkable success in winning money from the European funding programmes . |
| 29 | It has survived several challenges by federal investigators . |
| 30 | It has undergone drastic changes over the past few years . |