Example sentences of "it have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 2 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 3 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 4 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 5 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 6 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 7 | Since then , it has grown into a major production unit in the carpet industry . |
| 8 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 9 | In each case , it has to go into a sail pocket and , to avoid wear through abrasion , the rod should have cappings or a Dacron polyester tape reinforcement at each end , or the fabric will soon become pierced . |
| 10 | As the inebriated insect totters up , it has to wriggle beneath an overhanging rod which showers it with pollen . |
| 11 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 12 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 13 | Although normally only architects qualify for the RIBA 's Gold Medal ( considered the world 's most prestigious award for architecture ) , this year it has gone to an Irish structural engineer , the fifty-six year old Peter Rice . |
| 14 | ‘ It has gone into a room to have water showering on it , ’ said the Thing . |
| 15 | It has expanded in a very exciting way . |
| 16 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 17 | In many cases where a request has been made , it has met with a flat refusal . |
| 18 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 19 | It has collected into a huge ball , two or three feet across . |
| 20 | But otherwise it has survived on a diet of small deals while making a nice living rewinding British industry 's electric motors . |
| 21 | Since then , it has survived on a one-off grant from the Scottish Office and money donated by private trusts , but these too have run out . |
| 22 | On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance . |
| 23 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 24 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 25 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 26 | Since the British challenge made its start in 1987 at four locations , it has blossomed into a major feature of up to six kite meetings each year . |
| 27 | Day 11 ) The water temperature released at the dam is 0 degrees Centigrade but here , 100 miles downstream , it has warmed to a comfortable 32 degrees Fahrenheit . |
| 28 | Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash . |
| 29 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 30 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |