Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [conj] it has " in BNC.

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1 I have tried for a grant from the War Office for this purpose but it has not been awarded .
2 Brazil provides a particularly interesting terrain for this study because it has a very limited social security provision and few effective laws in the area of employment protection .
3 Also , in parallel with the United States , the influence of public policy seems to have been an additional factor of some importance since it has been observed that the policy of the occupying powers after 1947 probably strengthened the tendency to form enterprise-based unions rather than alternative structures for bargaining purposes ( Levine , 1981 ) .
4 To begin with , the term notion is itself a cause of some confusion since it has been interpreted in different ways in relation to its companion function .
5 Father Andrew , the saintly co-founder of the Society of the Divine Compassion , wrote to one of his many correspondents : ‘ To me it is one of me most hopeful things of this epoch that it has produced C. S. Lewis . ’
6 But I wish to record at once that , in my opinion , it is of such importance that it has a powerful bearing upon the consideration by your Lordships of the central question in the case .
7 ‘ I ca n't pretend that I have found it a burden of such onerousness that it has disturbed what I have needed to do in my company , ’ he commented this week .
8 Not only this , the latest multi-function instruments can scan and monitor all engine conditions — oil T & P , CHT , OAT , etc. — and warn of any abnormality before it has time to result in damage .
9 Although the glass-rubber transition itself does not depend on polymer structure , the temperature at which T g is observed depends largely on the chemical nature of the polymer chain and for most common synthetic polymers lies between 170 and 500 K. It is quite obvious that T g is an important characteristic property of any polymer as it has an important bearing on the potential application of a polymer .
10 Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope .
11 It is essential to add that plate tectonics has crept into this matter as it has into every other aspect of the earth sciences .
12 ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed .
13 The insidious growth of statutory planning restrictions , since the.first real control was introduced forty years ago , has increased with such rapidity that it has often been difficult to keep abreast of new legislation without concentrating exclusively on this aspect of the development process .
14 You can also move a range of cells in this way once it has been blocked .
15 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
16 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
17 In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern .
18 Great care should be taken with the rock in this area until it has all washed clean and settled down again .
19 However , it is a distinction we are going to maintain in this chapter because it has the effect of separately identifying the discount market .
20 However , a purchaser should not pay for tax losses until such time as it has been able to use them .
21 P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter .
22 If you wish to alter your booking in any way after it has been confirmed , it is essential that the change be made in writing ( or fax ) to the BCVB .
23 It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement .
24 The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years .
25 Nevertheless , it may well be that such birds are conditioned to this colour and it has been shown that nectar quality can overcome colour prejudice .
26 It has no relevance to this debate but it has
27 But the ICA responded to this challenge as it has always done with the difficult or the new ; with the sort of calculated risk-taking that the majority of Arts Council-sponsored venues habitually shy away from .
28 What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares .
29 But not all the remaining convergence can be explained by this process and it has been suggested that the rest has been accommodated by the lateral movement of blocks of continental lithosphere along east-west trending strike-slip faults to the north of the Tibetan Plateau in Mongolia and western China ( Fig. 3.24 ) .
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