Example sentences of "it has [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it has strengthened the ties with my Tribschen friends even more … |
| 3 | It has redrawn the boundaries between the public and private sectors in favour of the latter and raised substantial sums for the Treasury . |
| 4 | The company declares that it has replicated the functions of APPN , without any inside information from IBM , and this , together with the required patent permissions , should be enough to avoid it being fingered by IBM 's corporate lawyers . |
| 5 | Since the war , each time the Conservative Party has come into power it has extolled the virtues of the market . |
| 6 | It has reached the viewers and , perhaps more importantly , its success has guaranteed its subscribers , the ITV companies , more than enough revenue to match their subscriptions to the service . |
| 7 | It is called the recession and it has blighted the lives of thousands of people who want no more than to earn an honest living and take pride in bringing up their families . |
| 8 | Now he is said to regret it because it has inflamed the Thatcherites . |
| 9 | ‘ The economic recovery has restored old fortunes far more significantly , ’ she admitted in this year 's State of the Nation address , ‘ than it has touched the lives of the vast majority of our people . ’ |
| 10 | It has given the Greeks a new foreign-policy possibility , to the north : one in which membership of the Community will be useful , but Greeks can still be Greeks . |
| 11 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 12 | It has outgrown the baby-clothes of Count and Duke and breeched itself in manhood , it has put down the dwarf and set up the man . ’ |
| 13 | It has involved the police in other , hotly contested local struggles : between the Hounslow Community Relations Council , a cautious , conservative organisation , and the Southall Monitoring Group , a body which attempts to support the victims of racial attacks . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it has taught the parents a lot about how much science and technology is studied in an infants ' school , ’ head teacher Judy Nicholls told the Herald . |
| 15 | It has increased the powers of the Secretary of State for Education and Science , strengthened the role of central government , limited the functions of local education authorities and given considerable powers and responsibilities to governing bodies and headteachers . |
| 16 | It has increased the responsibilities of social workers , challenged the authority of psychiatrists , and extended the rights of patients and their relatives . |
| 17 | If trust is to establish itself again , it has to do so by such devious and long-winded means , and it has to use the tools of its antitype . |
| 18 | It is undefeated , after all — alone , apart from Russia , among the combatant nations of Europe — though it has heard the wings of defeat , and narrowly escaped its claws . |
| 19 | So far it has described the lads down the pit as millionaires and then businessmen . |
| 20 | It has waived the rules that used to bar nuclear-powered ships from using the Suez Canal , and seems to have given landing rights to American military transport aircraft . |
| 21 | People may buy shares in a target company simply because it has attracted the attentions of a potential offeror which is known to have a good eye for investment opportunities . |
| 22 | Although DATEC has provided external moderators , who play a key role in maintaining standards , the colleges are also encouraged to provide their own assessors to assist staff where necessary and , as DATEC regards meeting industrial needs as a prime requirement , it has encouraged the colleges to appoint industrial assessors . |
| 23 | If you are installing a new bathroom , it has to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations . |
| 24 | To this end it has relaxed the controls over the re-use of redundant agricultural and other buildings in the countryside in order to stimulate the growth of small businesses . |
| 25 | ‘ If a company is serious about stress then it has to address the issues raised , ’ commented , a chartered clinical psychologist working as a consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick , especially if it emerges that certain internal working practices and management are the major factors in staff stress levels . |
| 26 | Computer Associates International Inc has just about run out of available US software products companies to snap up , and now it has crossed the Atlantic , making landfall in Dublin , where it has bought the assets of C++ object-oriented C specialist Glockenspiel Ltd . |
| 27 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman must have studied what has happened in the company referred to , so he will know that it has used the assets to buy new buses . |
| 28 | It has published the reports of three task groups aimed at addressing the problem . |
| 29 | It is corrupt ; it has betrayed the ideals you worked for , and it has robbed you of any position . ’ |
| 30 | The obligation of the target to repay lenders or loan capital in the event of a takeover could result in a dramatic increase in the cost of the bid for the offeror if it has to find the funds itself to enable the target to meet the repayment obligation . |