Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 2 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 3 | The move follows the £1.4m out-of-court settlement agreed in July with the Tunstall Group , which had been suing the firm for damages for the losses it had incurred in purchasing Sound Diffusion shares ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 15 ) . |
| 4 | In 1973 the Libyan leader , Gaddafi , indirectly attacked Egypt for the concessions it had made . |
| 5 | The origin legend of the Merovingians as recorded by Fredegar is important not only for its suggestion that the family claimed to be descended from a supernatural ancestor , but also for the implications it has for the rise of the dynasty . |
| 6 | For the starvelings it had to suffice that His Munificent Highness personally attached the greatest importance to their fate , which was a very special kind of attachment , of an order higher than the highest . |
| 7 | Others , such as the ideas of perceiving , willing , and doubting , come from ‘ reflection ’ , from our ‘ perception of the operations of our own minds … as it is employed about the ideas it has got [ from sensation ] ’ . |
| 8 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 10 | But with the coming of the Garrimpos it 's grown steadily filthier and more toxic , contaminated by things visible and invisible . |
| 11 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 12 | She was silent for a moment , thinking of the drudgery to which Hubert 's vision had condemned her and of the advantages it had denied the children . |
| 13 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 14 | After careful consideration of the options it has been decided to move the studio to the Bar Council 's Warwick Court annex and transfer responsibility for managing and marketing the facilities to the Secretariat . |
| 15 | It was recognised that these would be subjective and impressionistic , to some extent at least , and this chapter quotes verbatim from many of the letters it has received . |
| 16 | It may hold within it the memories of the lives it has fostered , and the foreknowledge of the forms that will be rooted there . |
| 17 | The Labour Party , which had played a central part in achieving educational change through Circular 10/65 ( see page 15 ) , had become more and more doubtful about the political wisdom of some of the changes it had itself pioneered . |
| 18 | Yeah , our ones ' actually got something on , especially one of the machines it 's got little spots across the screen saying do not . |
| 19 | The Oxford Polytechnic scheme is sui generis : the extent to which it has developed in a particular context of constraints and opportunities makes many of the decisions it has made and many of the systems it has adopted difficult to transfer to other institutional frameworks . |
| 20 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And this is one of the reasons it has decided to go public — as a way of preserving its own identity and of winning itself recognition . |
| 23 | ‘ Britain 's less adaptable , less skilled work-force is one of the reasons it has got stuck trying to compete with the high volume , low-wage countries . ’ |
| 24 | They 've not looked has n't British industry because of the attacks it 's been under on what Europe has to offer in terms of better training , better health and safety etcetera and we need to bring that information to them . |
| 25 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 26 | Although he maintains that every monad is distinguished from every other in virtue of the attributes it has , he nevertheless refuses to regard monads as mere agglomerations ' of attributes — or what might be more appropriately described as groups or " bundles " of qualities , without a " substratum " . |
| 27 | It will seek to make maximum use of the units it has been given for offlining . |
| 28 | However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered . |
| 29 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 30 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |