Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [conj] it has " in BNC.

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1 The idea of ‘ care ’ has been carefully nurtured until it has become the hallmark of solid acceptability , the key to political creditworthiness , and the disability industry 's SDI designed to shield their programmes of social control from criticism .
2 The property has to be separately assessed and it has to be completely empty .
3 The words may be brilliant , the sentences may be perfectly constructed but it has n't got that life in it that the more spontaneous talking will have , and it 's less persuasive .
4 In contrast , the value of the option contract can not be negative since it is only exercised if it has a positive value .
5 But if the entire building is so damaged that it has to be torn down and rebuilt , the landlord collects from his insurer to rebuild .
6 The differential fee for night visits is intended to discourage general practitioners from using deputising services , but it is not known whether it has had this effect .
7 ( Notice that we have not included the possibility of uninitialised variables within normal form programs , since no bound variable is ever read until it has been input to . )
8 The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years .
9 Its body is clearly segmented but it has very many fewer divisions than the millipede .
10 We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes .
11 It is popularly assumed that it has medicinal benefits , but there is no evidence whatever to support this , and much evidence to the contrary .
12 A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) .
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