Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 2 | It has saved many lives |
| 3 | Being part of C&P has softened the blow because it has enabled many employees to switch to other growth areas of the chemicals business . |
| 4 | It has survived many more recent attempts by central government to have it replaced but since a major overhaul took place in 1986 this fine landmark has a secure future . |
| 5 | It has survived many a crisis and witnessed many turbulent conflicts but today revels in simple pleasures and peaceful serenity . |
| 6 | Such confusion has , on one hand , led many scientists and doctors to reject acupuncture as a foreign superstition , while on the other it has led many people , not trained in science , to react by rejecting modern biomedical science as being blinkered and dogmatic . |
| 7 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 8 | It has cornered many lucrative short-hop routes . |
| 9 | Mr Miller started his London restaurant business Kenny 's at the beginning of the recession and says that , what with high interest rates , business rates and rents , an increase in value added tax , plus the recession , it has had many problems . |
| 10 | Still ploughing onwards into the '90s — but with Steve Coogan and Hugh Dennis as its rather disappointing vocal suppliers and a rubbish PM to lampoon — it has had many ups and downs , usually within the space of one show . |
| 11 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 12 | IT IS no secret that , however welcome the social change in the former Soviet Union , it has left many orchestras and opera houses in parlous financial circumstances . |
| 13 | It has claimed many converts . |
| 14 | Thanks to its alliance with Fine Gael it has attracted many low-preference votes from that party 's supporters . |
| 15 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 16 | But there are some very good reasons why dBase is the dominant DOS database , why it has outlasted many superficially more attractive competitors , and why Borland was so eager to acquire dBase 's developer , Ashton Tate , just over a year ago . |
| 17 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 18 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 19 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 20 | It has taken many years for these professionals to gain recognition and acceptance . |
| 21 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 22 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 23 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 24 | The notion of an internal lexicon is particularly powerful in that it helps to explain many of the phenomena associated with word recognition . |
| 25 | Sarah was allowed to dust and polish in Mr Bradford 's rooms , a duty given only to trusted servants since it meant moving many of his important papers , but when she went in there after her return she dropped one of his boxes and everything was scattered over the carpet . |
| 26 | No Highlander worth his salt would cut one down , nor will he allow his son to do so , even if it means walking many a long stretch to fetch home firewood . |
| 27 | It had fooled many men , but would it deceive a woman ? |
| 28 | It occurred to him , as indeed it had occurred many times before , that commitment to one woman had as its inevitable corollary a lack of commitment to all the others . |
| 29 | It had carried many on this journey . |
| 30 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |