Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 2 | Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn . |
| 3 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 4 | Owen is making the point here that the sun once woke this man up , and every morning it has done the same thing , dutifully , as it had woken the rest of the world up too . |
| 5 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 6 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
| 7 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 8 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 9 | issued in 1604 : it happens to use the same fount of music type as the Select Songs in the Fairy Queen , and it occupies two and a half pages : it could not have been squeezed onto two . |
| 10 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 11 | Unfortunately this is the least glamorous of any of the activities of a busy public relations office and it tends to receive the least attention . |
| 12 | As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles . |
| 13 | 4.2 The Company will give three months ' notice to the Supplier of any alterations to the above forecast should it wish to revise the same during any twelve month period . |
| 14 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 15 | Perhaps the one big glaring example where natural predation can have a significant effect , quite astonishing on occasions , is with greenfly , and no doubt the most familiar example — it seems to get the most publicity — is the ladybird . |
| 16 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 17 | The same ought to hold true for a disk drive or whatever , as long as the chassis into which it plugs remains the same . |
| 18 | This is most easily dealt with by ensuring that when Newco is formed it elects to have the same accounting year-end date as Target . |
| 19 | It 's far better to spend a few extra minutes making a trace 100 per cent safe , even if it means putting a few extra pence into the finished product . |
| 20 | When it had grown older it did show a little interest in females and even deigned to mate with a few , though never with much enthusiasm . |
| 21 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 22 | It did take a few minutes to get used to the cutting action of steadying the saw on it shoe , starting the motor , then gradually starting the cut by pivoting down with the blade , but it was a knack soon acquired . |
| 23 | ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’ |
| 24 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 25 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 26 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 27 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 28 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 29 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 30 | By 1985 it had overtaken the latter , reaching $25m. , and retained its position in 1986 with $30m. and in 1987 with $35m . |