Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The satellite television company yesterday announced it has secured the exclusive rights to live coverage of England 's three Tests and six one-day internationals this winter . |
| 2 | It has absorbed the Eastern Red Pied of eastern Liège , which was in effect the MRY in Eupen and Malmédy . |
| 3 | The company is almost entirely dependent on Royal Navy orders , although it has built the odd merchant ship of a more complex kind . |
| 4 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 5 | WWF-Malaysia is opposed to the tropical timber boycott advocated by most environmental groups , and it has echoed the Malaysian government 's complaints that European environmental groups are using misinformation in their campaigns [ see EDs 57 , 58 ] . |
| 6 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 7 | In the first place , it has confirmed the Soviet charge that the liberals were both unable and unwilling to appeal for mass protest to break the government 's resolution . |
| 8 | That part of the collection 's rotation has worked surprisingly well but it has necessitated the temporary removal to storage , or to its branch in Liverpool , of masterpieces which visitors expect to find on permanent view . |
| 9 | Either way , it has cut the vast queues . |
| 10 | We wholeheartedly condemn the Government 's policy of Non-intervention which has permitted the Fascist countries of Italy and Germany to pour into Spain vast amounts of arms , ammunition , men , whilst it has denied the Spanish Democratic Government the legal right to purchase necessary supplies to defend the State . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It then works its way back through all the calls until it has completed the final multiplication , when it returns the answer . |
| 13 | Separately , Praxis revealed that it has completed the initial version of an Architecture Neutral Distribution Format ( ANDF ) installer for IBM Corp 's RS/6000 platform . |
| 14 | Since the Baath Party came to power in 1968 , it has filled the burgeoning city of Baghdad with new roads , monuments , redevelopment zones and 45 new shopping centres . |
| 15 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 16 | It has integrated the two to work together . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has created the real possibility of effective legislation ( and an end to the voluntary agreements ) for the first time . |
| 19 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 20 | The first option was rejected , as in the past it has isolated the small group from the department . |
| 21 | In addition to the two avant-garde poles represented for him by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , he has a minor category consisting of music that makes use of materials ‘ which fell by the wayside … waste products and blind spots … all that which did not fit properly into the laws of historical movement ’ ; the ‘ anachronistic quality ’ of this material ‘ is not wholly obsolete since it has outwitted the historical dynamic ’ . |
| 22 | The verdict of one admiring authority on the government 's performance is that , ‘ In doing so , it has achieved the largest transfer of property since the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII , a transfer from the state to its citizens . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In addition , the importance of a group 's work may be assessed by noting the extent to which it has influenced the overall structure of concepts . |
| 25 | It has survived the first crisis of its independent life . |
| 26 | It has affected the famous and the influential . |
| 27 | This primary sore is usually a solitary ulcer , and by the time it has appeared the local lymph nodes are invariably involved and treatment of the chancre with antiseptics or antibiotic ointments will have no effect on progression of the disease . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It has developed the British Code of Advertising Practice whose intentions are primarily to ensure that : |