Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] have " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 the prison system has a tendency to create more problems than it receives and has an equal tendency to fail inmates because , out of its survival fear , it tends to respond to corporate threats , real or imaginary , rather than the real problems of inmates .
2 It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence .
3 Yet education has never guaranteed employment , and whether it has or has not been expected to , we must also consider the other purposes it may serve .
4 It found that had Costa Rica been consulted , its opinion would have been decisive , precisely the situation envisaged in 1858 .
5 Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ .
6 At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas .
7 In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too .
8 new marriage , new spouse intestacy rules , spouse is the nearest and gets the first lot so it presumes that having got married you want that spouse to have what you 've got .
9 After it hatched and had begun to feed , its body cells divided no more .
10 It survives and has become a religious force in the village .
11 It appears that having agreed on the structure , the meeting did not address the question of functions of the RAC and the development of jointly planned activity , outlined in Green 's original proposals , was ignored and led subsequently to competitive activity in Cambridgeshire , Essex and Norfolk .
12 As the right hon. Gentleman was Chancellor before it started and has been Prime Minister throughout its course , is it not clear that he is not only the Prime Minister of recession , but the prime cause of recession ?
13 You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ?
14 Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator .
15 The stabled horse can not touch as much as the paddocked horse , nor can it scratch or have any reassuring contact with a companion .
16 She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS .
17 Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out .
18 When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done .
19 Even the winter times on it come and have a look .
20 In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged .
21 But some think it does and have named it Saunders 's tern .
22 One argument states that the Latin American bourgeoisie has never had sufficient capital to promote the economic development it wanted and has , therefore , had to import capital .
  Next page