Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's sad that having made the assurances in court and accepted that it was n't an acceptable way of doing business , that it turns out that they are still carrying on . ’ |
| 2 | The success of Windows has legitimized faxing from a PC — it 's cheap , it 's easy and has many advantages over the conventional fax machine . |
| 3 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 4 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 5 | Yellow Peril 's defenders insist like all good art it 's provocative and has a sting in the tail |
| 6 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 7 | It is unacceptable and has the potential to cause great harm to children who may see it . |
| 8 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 9 | It is expensive but has a host of fine illustrations to support the 500-word pen-portraits . |
| 10 | To argue that it is computer-generated and has no human author runs counter to common sense . |
| 11 | This building is more Romanesque than other works ; it is cruciform and has a particularly fine galleried and arcaded apse dating from about 1140 . |
| 12 | Continuing our top-down approach to discourse , it is logical that having identified the sender and receiver , the discourse type and the parts within it , we should turn our attention to organization within parts of the discourse — however these may have been identified and defined . |
| 13 | It is significant that having conducted a review of the ‘ state of the art ’ in these areas , and drawn up a list of generalisations about the change process in education , Bolam cautions that generalisations ‘ should be regarded as working hypotheses and pointers for future study since their basis in research is weak ’ . |
| 14 | The interior is most interesting : it is large and has an 11-bay nave with varying classical capitals and columns . |
| 15 | When an elderly relative is to be cared for , it is important that having some time off together should be top priority for the couple . |
| 16 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 17 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 18 | It is likely that had Smart completed his revisions and published the work he would have included an explanatory preface , as he does in A Song to David and the psalms translation . |
| 19 | This is the stuff from which good beer is made as it is hard and has absorbed a tangy flavour . |
| 20 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 21 | But it was apparent that having gone he did not entirely like it . |
| 22 | It was high-necked and had long tight sleeves and a straight line to the floor , where it flared out at the back into a huge swirling fishtail train . |
| 23 | The stewards established there had been interference , but it was accidental and had taken place before the second last and thereby did not count under the rules . |
| 24 | It was dark and had a tiny window . |
| 25 | When my eyes had grown accustomed to the darkness I saw its silhouette and I reached out to touch it , it was rough and had nodules growing from it . |
| 26 | The duration of copyright protection was limited to 15 years if the design was registrable ; that is , it was new and had eye-appeal . |
| 27 | Peering between the uprights of the gate , I saw that the horse stood before Frankenstein 's gate harnessed to a phaeton — or so I believe that type of carriage was called ; it was open and had four wheels . |
| 28 | It was undated and had no address . |
| 29 | The guests thought it was romantic and had great fun picking their way through the candlelit restaurant . |
| 30 | I did n't repeat this in case it was untrue but heard about 9am that it was true and had been broadcast . |