Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 2 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 3 | It has survived the first crisis of its independent life . |
| 4 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 5 | Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime . |
| 6 | Since 1979 it has done the first ( seek efficiency ) and the second ( pare everything ) but never the third ( redefine the welfare state ) . |
| 7 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The government has urged environmental scientists to increase co-operation with foreign experts ; it has published the first national Environmental Yearbook ; and released details of an eight-year survey of background radioactivity , which purports to show it as well below international norms . |
| 9 | It has leaped the last few leagues in one bound ( great stuff ) , and lands smack BANG on the Cathedral roof ( or thereabouts ) . |
| 10 | HDS says it has delivered the first $5m . |
| 11 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 12 | The election of Mamaloni as Prime Minister in March 1989 , following emergence from the February 1989 general election as the largest single party [ see pp. 36465 ; 36526 ] had been widely perceived as the beginning of a new era in that it had provided the first instance of single-party government since independence in 1978 . |
| 13 | It had taken the last half-hour to muster the courage to mention the subject yet again . |
| 14 | Okay , now it 's got two versions , it 's got the first version which is a short version okay ? |
| 15 | Erm because it 's got the Next label on it and I like that outfit . |
| 16 | And not only that er go into the Newcastle Evening Chronicle it 's dumped the next day . |