Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it has [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms . |
| 2 | Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced . |
| 3 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 4 | Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 6 | Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) . |
| 7 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 8 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 9 | The general effect of these four differences between health and education in relation to economic growth is that it has proved far more difficult and controversial to measure the impact of health on economic growth and where it has been attempted the effects have been estimated to be lower than those resulting from education . |
| 10 | I think one of the justifiable criticisms of Radio 3 — though not of my predecessor — is that it has come across as being too much about itself . |
| 11 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |