Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it has [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off .
2 The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom .
3 The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved .
4 However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled .
5 And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo .
6 Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) .
7 Instead of guarantees that the story really happened , we get promises that it has all been made up .
8 Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use .
9 The requirement is as real as any other in the construction industry , but it is interesting to note that take-up in the RICS , with its earlier commitment to obligatory CPD , has been higher than in other professions where it has so far been voluntary .
10 A hundred years after his death his approach seems more relevant to botanical studies than it has ever been .
11 It depends on contexts in parse trees , and the algorithm can only calculate parse trees if it has enough AND symbols ; so clustering depends on the set of available AND symbols .
12 From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy .
13 It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions .
14 Allelic losses , insertions , and point mutations have been detected on many other chromosomes but it has still to be established whether such changes function simply as markers for colorectal cancer , or as potential prognostic indicators .
15 The Government has taken steps to improve court procedures but it has steadfastly refused to introduce a legal right to interest .
16 A classical model was produced by Penck and Bruckner in 1909 and this involved four main glaciations although it has subsequently been appreciated that the sediments on which this four-fold sequence was based represented only a small proportion of the time span , and unconformities between each successive terrace probably conceal events lost to the record regionally or locally ( Bowen , 1978 ) .
17 Iran has recently been prominent in world events , which has reminded outsiders that it has never been more important to understand the people of Iran , their culture and their traditions .
18 It may be the last word in consumer issues but it has never been available on news stands .
19 Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring .
20 Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies .
21 Many pundits publicly opine that Windows would never have sold as many copies as it has without the massive publicity campaign that Microsoft put behind it .
22 The government has given repeated assurances that it has never sought such dispensation .
23 It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle .
24 Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution .
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