Example sentences of "has [verb] [conj] it is [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Luce Irigaray , for instance , has argued that it is totally reductive to define the feminine as the not-masculine in relation , say , to sexuality .
2 I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today .
3 In addition , experience has shown that it is equally important to make a provisional assessment of factors such as development and staffing costs , and the technical feasibility of pursuing any proposed computer initiatives .
4 The name reflects the fact that the animal 's horns and head resemble the Arabian oryx , but DNA analysis has shown that it is most closely related to the oxen family .
5 More recent research has shown that it is only some carbohydrate foods which cause this problem , not all of them .
6 Research has shown that it is often the case that a plaintiff 's solicitor either does not have the resources to undertake investigations or is loath to seek out all available reports .
7 He has grasped that it is more profitable to attack the Government for incompetence and negligence than to present it as a systematic and all-too-competent conspiracy against the people .
8 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
9 He [ or she ] has to decide whether it is more in his pupils ' interests for him to accept the existence of the present social structure and to give them help to advance within it , or for him to have rejected it , on their behalf , as stifling , competitive and exploitative and to encourage them to find fulfilment within themselves and their environment .
10 THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains .
11 Mr Kinnock has learnt that it is more effective to mock the Prime Minister as an anachronism in a brave new world than snarl the word ‘ Thatcherism ’ and present her as the personification of all evil .
12 The situation has changed and it is now possible to determine , for example , how much oxygen is being used by a particular area of the brain while a subject does a task like reading or memorizing a word list ( Raichle 1983 ) .
13 Although the Bcl-2 protein is membrane-associated r7–10 , its subcellular location is controversial : two studies have suggested that it is mainly associated with the nuclear envelope and endoplasmic reticulum , whereas another study has suggested that it is mainly located in the inner mitochondrial membrane .
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