Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] it has [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That idea raises three interlinked questions , answers to which should enlarge our understanding of social change as it has affected family relationships .
2 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
3 Older people often give up sexual intercourse because it has become painful .
4 It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past .
5 The farming lobby has also pursued a policy of agricultural exceptionalism when it has come to the institution of a wide range of welfare and safety measures .
6 Sentimental as ever , the English refrain from slaughtering the little tablefare until it has developed a taste for grass .
7 " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . "
8 Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long .
9 Planning authorities have formidable powers over unlawful development once it has taken place .
10 Chemistry has a poor image because it has become associated with a range of disasters , eg Bhopal , rather than the production of useful substances such as the life-saving drugs .
11 Mitchells Plain , home of 500,000 coloured people ( of mixed race ) , many of whom were forcibly removed from Cape Town in the early '70s , was chosen for the launch of the NP drive to recruit members right across the racial spectrum because it has seen a clear swing of support in the past year from the ANC towards the Nationalists .
12 The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed .
13 Dealing will start on June 1 , although Phonelink is keen go for a full listing once it has hit the three-year trading minimum .
14 In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet .
15 And ‘ duty ’ , heavily antique or even moth-eaten word though it has become , thanks to the mockery of charlatans , is the one proud constant which informs and dignifies both my work and my life .
16 Pohl has also specifically mentioned that Austria could easily annex itself to this monetary union since it has pegged the schilling to the Deutschmark for years .
17 Boil the wine rapidly in a small saucepan until it has reduced to approx 1 × 15ml/tbsp .
18 That student is unable to get help from his educational institution because it has run out of its access funds .
19 Of course , it 's also impossible to predict revolution , and we can only recognise the revolutionary character of a particular development after it has happened .
20 The suggested Directive will also grant important compulsory acquisition rights to the dominant undertaking if it has acquired a 90 per cent holding , whether or not there is a control contract .
21 Meanwhile , heat the distilled water in another basin over a pan of simmering water until it has warmed .
22 an update on the firm 's financial strategy if it has changed
23 It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility .
24 This may have to be sawn off with a junior hacksaw if it has rusted in place
25 A tribunal must make a compensatory award if it has made a basic award .
26 The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process .
27 Discard the bad peel after it has dried , then repolish and etch the face .
28 Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved .
29 Discussion here will be limited to the last-named agency since it has had more extensive impact .
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