Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] [conj] it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will not be surprising since it has by now become apparent that such adjectives inhabit a very restricted niche in the world of English syntax ; in fact they are limited to the prenominal attributive position . |
| 2 | Imaginative and incalculable youth , which clamours for the moon and may not be content till it has damaged most of the street lamps . ’ |
| 3 | The present system may not be perfect but it has worked pretty well and would be capable of improvement and adjustment without the need to go back to the drawing board . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 5 | Oxidised LDL may also be procoagulant since it has been described as stimulating endothelial tissue factor activity and inhibiting activation of protein C. Despite these tremendous advances , the authors wisely remind us that many patients with coronary disease have few or none of the known risk factors . |
| 6 | However , we can not even be sure that it has got the causal effects absolutely right . |
| 7 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
| 8 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |