Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
| 2 | It has built empty factories which it lets out free of rent for up to five years . |
| 3 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 4 | I think it has prevented more activity than it has allowed . |
| 5 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 6 | It has contributed much more to labour force growth than immigration , and will be the main source of its growth for the rest of this century ( DE 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Ithanguni is important because it has contributed most of the fine ash deposits that blanket the lower slopes of west Mount Kenya and make rich farming and ranching land . |
| 8 | Its success can be measured by how it has moved Labour to the right of the Heath Tory government . |
| 9 | For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times . |
| 10 | One might imagine , for instance , that it has turned equitable estates and rights into legal estates and rights . |
| 11 | It has obliged local authorities to sell off council houses and has reduced the importance given to municipal housing . |
| 12 | For Geostationary , it has contracted General Electric Co Inc 's GE Astro unit with Matra-Marconi Espace SA ; Hughes Space & Communications Inc with British Aerospace Plc and NEC Corp ; for intermediate circular , the contracts go to Matra-Marconi and GE Astro again , this time with TRW Corp . |
| 13 | In that connection , it has employed independent consultants to assess the NRA 's work , but there has been no independent assessment of this scheme . |
| 14 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 15 | The sky is grey and abysmal ; it has grown blacker since morning . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 17 | It has grown quiet . |
| 18 | By the time this younger generation has been correctly defined , it has grown older and replaced by some new unknown demographic quantity . |
| 19 | Knowledge of the devastating effect which even a limited nuclear attack would have on the environment and the people in it has motivated increasing numbers to campaign vociferously for nuclear disarmament , either multilateral or unilateral . |
| 20 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 21 | MCI Communications Corp said it has gained 10,000 new toll-free telephone numbers since portable numbers were brought in on May 1 , including about 6,500 new numbers acquired from AT&T Co : a total of more than 1m commercial 800 numbers were ‘ officially freed ’ to change . |
| 22 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |
| 23 | It has discovered some extraordinary photographers and some diabolical journalists |
| 24 | The fact that PRCS has such a large client base might suggest that it has discovered some magic formula , but Murphy insists the principles of good PR are quite simple . |
| 25 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 26 | It has received good reviews ( not tested by Ski survey ) including a study by Liverpool Poly . |
| 27 | It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter . |
| 28 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 29 | It has received international recognition and a long and impressive list of visitors — including the Prime Minister — have lauded its achievements . |
| 30 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |