Example sentences of "it [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
| 2 | Marcos loyalists now poke fun at the Aquino administration 's boast that it has built a new stability , arguing it is pretty fragile if it wo n't allow a dead man home for burial . |
| 3 | Stories are circulating that Ford will announce it has built a 5 per cent shareholding early next week . |
| 4 | Although it is hampered by a lack of trained community nurses , it has undertaken a process of community diagnosis to determine local health problems and conducts numerous preventive and health education activities , including cervical cytology programmes , visits to schools , group work with mothers , and the training of health agents . |
| 5 | It has maintained a full-time programme continuously for over forty years . |
| 6 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 7 | By its control of entry into the profession , it has maintained a shortage of doctors and so ensured high rewards for medical services . |
| 8 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 9 | It has employed a dual strategy to achieve these two objectives . |
| 10 | ‘ The phone 's been out of order all week , and the man who came to mend it has broken a lamp I was very fond of . ’ |
| 11 | It has gained a reputation for controlling pain and in China is extensively used as an alternative to anaesthesia in surgery . |
| 12 | Although AMARC was formally established as recently as 1988 , it has gained a worldwide reputation for its community radio conferences , which have been taking place since 1983 . |
| 13 | How is the world going to know it has received a boundless freedom at the hands of an obscure young man lying in some back room in a provincial Russian town ? |
| 14 | B&C says it has received a stream of offers for Gartmore , the international group which employs about 500 people and has some £6.4billion under management , over the past two to three years . |
| 15 | BHH Group , the property company , sprang to life after announcing it has received a bid approach . |
| 16 | Zenith Electronics Corp , Glenview , Illinois reports that it has received a commitment from two major institutional lenders for a new $90m revolving credit agreement that is good until December 31 next year . |
| 17 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 18 | Terms were not disclosed , although the tabloid did say that it has received a capital injection from Duna , which will be used for investment purposes . |
| 19 | The only safeguard against political censorship is that the BBC " may " ( not " must " ) tell the public that it has received a s13(4) order from the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | While it talks about rolling back the state , it has overseen a major increase in central government and police power . |
| 21 | It has confirmed a central precept : European monetary union ( EMU ) , if it comes about , will take place at two ( or several ) speeds . " |
| 22 | In the past it has expressed an interest in taking on Cypress ' SuperSparc-compatible part ( UX No 408 ) . |
| 23 | Not to say DEC is going whole hog for Microsoft , but it has cut a master license agreement to give Microsoft University courses and sell video products at its 145 training centres around the world . |
| 24 | It has presented a picture of a large number of upper-middle-class families drawing their substantial incomes from industry whilst moving in a milieu which extolled and practised the alleged virtues of the English gentleman . |
| 25 | In doing so , however , it has presented a somewhat one-sided view of human society . |
| 26 | It has planned an exciting programme of activities for its first ever BAYSDAY which it hopes will be attended by young people of secondary school age from all over the country . |
| 27 | Since the late-1980s , however , it has faced a state of crisis characterised by overcapacity , poor returns and serious financial problems in the trawling sector . |
| 28 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 29 | Schlumberger Ltd says it has formed a joint venture , Advanced Meter Reading Technologies , with Motorola Inc to develop wireless electronics technology for remote and automated reading of water , gas , heat and electricity meters : starting next second quarter , Motorola will manufacture the products , and Schlumberger will provide , market and sell the products and service them . |
| 30 | Windata Inc announced on Friday that it has formed a subsidiary in Israel , which will develop software for management of local and wireless communication systems : the availability of many experts in telcommunications and wireless communication in Israel make the country an ideal place for such research and development according to Greg Hopkins , Windata 's chief executive ; Israel 's privileged relationship with the European Community will provide more flexibility to the subsidiary in the firm 's efforts to penetrate European markets . |