Example sentences of "it has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the one hand it has dragged the name of this club through the mud and on the other , as a manager , I have got to be worried by the implications . ’ |
| 2 | The jurisdiction of the High Court is an expanding one : in recent years , for example , it has embraced the supervision of the Take-over Panel ; Reg. v. Panel on Take-overs and Mergers , Ex parte Datafin Plc. [ 1987 ] Q.B . |
| 3 | It has stunted the growth of many a fine band — and promoted horseshit to sheep . |
| 4 | It has criticized the government for not stressing the responsibilities of scientists in its draft safety guidelines on working with genetically modified organisms . |
| 5 | To begin with , after it has turned the head with its slightly bulky but macho presence , the ergonomics of the thing strike you . |
| 6 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 7 | The bank says it has turned the cost centre into a business in an attempt reduce overheads . |
| 8 | They include Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer , who said : ‘ It has turned the game into basketball . |
| 9 | On the other hand it has to hold the interest of a class for at least one viewing . |
| 10 | It has to represent the scholar 's choice — |
| 11 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 12 | The Colombo government believes it has broken the back of the rebellion in the south by leftwing Sinhalese guerrillas , but is still faced with near anarchy in the Tamil north and east . |
| 13 | Pouring over its latest simulation runs , Sun is confident it has broken the back of the technical problem . |
| 14 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 15 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 16 | It has rejected the use of punitive taxes to discourage proliferation of company cars , on the grounds that this would increase private ownership of older and less efficient vehicles . |
| 17 | It has received the support of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency , and also of other experts in Criminology , including several judges , as well as of very many doctors , psychiatrists and social workers . |
| 18 | The Northern Regional Health Authority said it has received the report it had requested from Dr Lawler and had now asked South Tees Health Authority to investigate . |
| 19 | On the other hand , it has strengthened the ties with my Tribschen friends even more … |
| 20 | It has expressed the view that the increased sophistication of stockmarket capitalisation throughout the Community will lead to growth in takeover activity and that the liberalisation of capital movements throughout the EC will further encourage the inter-action of national capital markets , thus giving companies easier access to finance for takeover activities . |
| 21 | The typical case is one in which a factual statement points out that a situation is one of the kind in which an ethical statement asserts that a certain obligation holds , that is , one in which it has expressed the wish that people should act in a certain way or meet the disfavour of others . |
| 22 | As the House of Commons has sole responsibility for financial matters , it has to carry the burden of the work on financial bills . |
| 23 | Standard & Poor 's Corp says it has cut the rating on Tandy Corp 's and Tandy Credit Corp 's senior and shelf-registered debt to A-minus from single-A and their commercial paper ratings to A-2 from A-1 . |
| 24 | And the firm has its own worries about pirates : it has erased the serial number of all the chips in the device . |
| 25 | It has redrawn the boundaries between the public and private sectors in favour of the latter and raised substantial sums for the Treasury . |
| 26 | Longman 's Dictionary of Contemporary English ( LDOCE ) in particular has been designed with computational applications in mind , and to this end it has formed the resource for many projects , e.g. machine-readable databases , syntactic parsing , semantic analysis [ Boguraev Briscoe , 1989 ] . |
| 27 | However , the most significant objection to the Act is that it has extended the scope of the common law exemption so that husbands are not criminally liable for acts of buggery or indecent assault perpetrated against their wives , save in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above . |
| 28 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 29 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |
| 30 | It has joined the queue of property and building companies asking shareholders for more money with a £104m rights issue of new shares . |