Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Has it involved plastic surgery ?
2 I do n't think , has it got bathroom ones in there ?
3 Has it got meat stock in it ?
4 Why , I find myself asking , has it taken recording companies so long to realize the importance and value of Prokofiev 's contribution to the sonata ?
5 ‘ If the government continues to ignore us and deny our presence in this country , ’ he asked , ‘ what right has it to demand 100% loyalty from us for action ? ’
6 There are excellent courses available for home study and the Society has it own Language School which it makes available for people who need help .
7 Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc .
8 Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June .
9 Airport operator BAA reported it handled 6.8m passengers at its seven airports in May , 1993 2.9pc increase on the May , 1992 figure .
10 If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it .
11 If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it .
12 The police inspector who investigates the terrorist attack turns out to be none other than Columbo , the clerks at the hotel are discovered to be Akaky Akakievich , Badin , Devushkin , Mr Guppy , Goliadkin , Sainthomme , and Uriah Heep , and the journalists who report it include Jake Barnes , Ian Scuffling , Joe McCarthy Hynes , and Rouletabille .
13 Economic history/development over the last two hundred years has resulted in 90 per cent of the world 's manufacturing capacity being situated in the North , thus enabling it to control world trade , investment and financial resources .
14 The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals .
15 After a demonstration of this bit of electronic wizardry called Aladin Pro , I was surprised to discover it used Professor Bühlmann 's tables as its basis and , as well as an instruction manual , it also came with a set of Bühlmann tables .
16 This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections .
17 He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill .
18 VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 .
19 British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite .
20 She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil .
21 I do n't expect it to match Love Story , but I think he still has a lot of mileage and is well worth supporting .
22 If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely .
23 IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year .
24 The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall .
25 The stud farm says it uses security methods such as electric fencing .
26 Dista says it told health department officials ‘ verbally ’ in July about the evidence of Opren accumulation in the elderly .
27 Carrollton , Texas-based Westcott Communications Inc is to acquire some assets of TI-IN Network Inc , San Antonio , Texas , for 350,000 new Westcott shares worth about $11m , plus assumption of some liabilities ; TI-IN had audited revenues of some $7.3m and made a net loss of $697,000 for its fiscal year ended September 30 last ; it provides live interactive courses with two-way communication for school pupils in Grades K to 12 ; Westcott Communications says it pioneered satellite delivery of workplace training .
28 Santa Cruz also says it believes Intel Corp 's assurances that up to 200,000 Pentium chips will ship this year .
29 SCO also says it believes Intel Corp 's assurances that up to 200,000 Pentium chips will ship this year .
30 Wembley says it welcomes Swindon Town , but not all Robins supporters will be able to sample its hospitality at the big match on Monday .
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