Example sentences of "it have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 2 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 3 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 4 | It has contributed to the decline in direct portfolio investment as opposed to indirect investment through tax exempt institutions . |
| 5 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 6 | 7.1 Once it is acknowledged that it has to respond to the problem of its employees experiencing violence and aggressive behaviour in the course of their work , it is of vital importance to initiate a formal reporting process . |
| 7 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 8 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 9 | Whilst the company is well known for its handmade clay plain tiles , this will be the first time it has ventured into the expanding machine-made clay plain tile market . |
| 10 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 11 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 12 | This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old , but already it has grown beyond the founders ' wildest dreams . |
| 13 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 14 | I think it has grown in the telling . |
| 15 | Which is a shame , because in its proper place — and of course it has to coexist with the need for supportiveness and respect — it is just a game . |
| 16 | It has declared in the past that since British powers stations are able to meet targets for reducing the emissions that cause acid rain , research on the problem may no longer be a top priority . |
| 17 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 18 | If it means that it has to go on the other side of the road , could we please have that . |
| 19 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 20 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 21 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 22 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 23 | A statement read : ‘ We now believe that the decision to employ John Birt other than as a staff member was a mistake and we deeply regret the dismay it has caused to the public and to BBC staff . |
| 24 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 25 | Most of it is ‘ Convent'-ional and so far ‘ Nun ’ of it has gone off the books ! |
| 26 | THE DUKE of Westminster , said to be Britain 's richest man , has resigned from the Conservative Party , claiming it has gone off the rails . |
| 27 | In the next , only two-hundredths of a second later , it has gone through the release . |
| 28 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 29 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 30 | The effect is accentuated if the c.g. is near the aft limit and , in some cases , it is doubtful whether there is sufficient elevator authority to stop the pitching once it has gone beyond the early stages . |