Example sentences of "[art] [adj] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 2 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 3 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 4 | It was originally a corn mill but converted for paper production ; by the 1900s it had reverted to corn milling . |
| 5 | Unix slumped to 10% from 13% , the lowest it has ever scored in the Byte poll . |
| 6 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 7 | In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled . |
| 8 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 9 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 10 | Chemists were even suspicious of physical methods of analysis ; but the convenience of the spectroscope meant that by the 1870s it had come into regular use , as we shall see later . |
| 11 | The theory said , naturally , that the more of the ad that was remembered , the better it had succeeded in communicating . |
| 12 | But by the 1970s it had again become respectable to stress ethnicity : Arab-Americans , like blacks , Poles , Italians and Jews , became more interested in their roots . |
| 13 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 14 | In the mid-eighteenth century the expected age of death for a woman was 35 ; by the 1970s it had risen to 80 . |
| 15 | Accordingly , the prices objective became more important in most economies , and by the middle of the 1970s it had replaced full employment as the principal objective of the UK government . |
| 16 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 17 | However , since the 1970s it has become clear that such frameworks are inadequate for dealing with natural spontaneous speech ; in Britain the most influential work leading to this recognition was Crystal ( 1969 ) ; another good example of the same attitude is Brown et al. |
| 18 | However , that figure is a far cry from the 3,000 it had bet on getting rid of in the Orient or the couple of thousand forecast for the states . |
| 19 | For example , in the case of the latter it has been stated that |
| 20 | But , in the case of the latter it has been recognised that as regards the obligation , now in section 242 , to deliver accounts and reports to the Registrar ( thus making them available to the public ) they ( like partnerships ) are entitled to exemption . |
| 21 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 22 | But by the 430s it had become the religion of most educated Roman town-dwellers . |
| 23 | The nearer a satellite is to its sun , the faster it has to travel if it is to counter the sun 's gravity and remain in stable orbit . |
| 24 | In the Arctic it has been recorded from Baffin Bay , Barents , Kara and Siberians Seas . |
| 25 | In the 1920s it had been relatively easy for the students to obtain good jobs : but not now . |
| 26 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 27 | TI was well aware of the risks of mounting a hostile takeover — the £497m bid for Dowty was the first it had attempted since its joint bid for British Aluminium in 1959 . |
| 28 | Have had better atmosphere 's at funerals — i was in the kop just to the right of the goal and other than the odd comment from fellow fans around me it 's the quitest it 's ever been when I 've gone . |
| 29 | Whether it was even much of an improvement is open to question ; like many committees it was cumbersome and slow-moving and by the 1750s it had become notably disorderly and inefficient . |
| 30 | Yes , he did see , but all the same it had to be stopped … somehow . |