Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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31 As many hon. Members know , Grand Met is no longer a brewer , as it has transferred all its breweries to Courage , or Fosters , as it is now called .
32 That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption .
33 In other words , for an action to be deviant it has to cause some form of critical reaction and disapproval from others in the particular society .
34 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 .
35 One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search .
36 The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily .
37 The Posix group is working on an industry standard for multi-threading architectures which should be completed by the end of the year ( UX No 397 ) — SunSoft says it has implemented all specifications that have already been drafted .
38 As for the second alleged opt-out , the right hon. Gentleman confuses the distinction between the social dimension of the Community , to which Britain is fully committed — it has implemented all 19 of the directives thus passed — and the so-called social chapter , which deals with employment and labour laws where they are best determined in this country and in this House , and not imposed from outside .
39 The forest also recycles nutrients and once it has gone all fertility goes with it .
40 However , another group working in the US believes it has gone some way to understanding the link between high pressures and the superconducting state .
41 So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time !
42 While the new law may succeed in exposing the burgeoning volume of ‘ Indian theme ’ objects coming to the US , in the fine arts it has sent some Indian artists on the warpath .
43 As it has to pump more blood round the body to service the muscles you 're using , it will get bigger and stronger in order to do so more efficiently .
44 It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer .
45 And it has reached that point now .
46 Ideally , of course , one hopes to get the case before it has reached this stage .
47 In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age .
48 Each currency is allocated a maximum percentage deviation against its ECU central rate , and when it has reached this limit there is the presumption ( but not an obligation ) that the domestic government concerned will undertake remedial action .
49 Should the local planning authority determine that the proposals do constitute or involve development , it has to inform the applicant of grounds on which it has reached this decision and also his rights of appeal .
50 Railway travel develops many interesting situations ; but it has created few more bewildering than those occasionally to be seen during the Russian famine , when a number of peasantry , weary of the Czar 's despotic rule and black bread , or no bread at all , came through England on their way to America , and clustered , apparently hopeless , on the platform at the Central Station .
51 On both sides of the Irish Sea it has made all practitioners keenly aware of the deep oubliettes of the timetable , in short of the incoherence even of the apparently most broad and balanced curriculum .
52 Where such qualifications may be allowed for certain warranties , the acquirer will probably require the seller to confirm that it has made all reasonable enquiries .
53 The Report will be fully considered in a future issue of the Review but in respect of the drafting and presentation it has made some measured recommendations .
54 It has made this country one of the best places in which to live , work and bring up our children .
55 It has made this a Special Development Area .
56 I do n't know whether it has made any difference , but now we 're obliged to abandon some of our defences and it 's certain that your presence can no longer help us .
57 The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion .
58 If it is set too low , then Offline will accomplish its workload using less ‘ portions ’ ie. it will calculate how many blocks can be stored and then continue until it has achieved that workload regardless of the 15 minute factor .
59 The fact is that unless you have a reasonable understanding of what advertising can and can not achieve , you have absolutely no way of deciding what its role in a marketing programme is , what objectives should be set for it , and how to measure whether it has achieved those objectives .
60 Three-quarters of Oxfordshire teachers think that it has achieved this .
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