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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 For where it has been drawn is everywhere ; from the insistence of Thorndike , and the early behaviourists like Watson and Hull , that all is to be explained , including human behaviour , in terms of conditioned reflexes , to the open-handedness of well-meaning liberationists like Rollin who argue that even worms and sea anemones should be given the benefit of the doubt since we can not be certain that they do not feel pain and therefore have a consciousness ( 1981 : 31 ) .
2 And because of that it has got gravitation and fields which is n't as big as the earth , it 's only about one sixth as big as the earth .
3 And there 's a book and it 's oh about quarter of and it 's got the bible written in fourteen nineties .
4 Cos they we we were , we were doing it and and wha they were all kinds of and it 's got and I like , rushed it over to the sink and , and then just and then with the table it fell
5 He said it was to prevent the priest being mixed up , it was an opportunity to a new priest to come in and sort of if it had become he could establish groups .
6 In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not .
7 In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe .
8 Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected .
9 The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected .
10 Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him .
11 For older women , there is a question of whether it has any relevance at all . ’
12 See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer .
13 as if it had ever been there .
14 ‘ Do you want to come over for dinner sometime ? ’ said Jay , as if it had just occurred to her .
15 Even Scouse 's latrine had disappeared as if it had never been there .
16 This suspiciously hilarious incident sounds as if it had been polished in the telling , as many hooligan incidents are .
17 The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August .
18 Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks .
19 Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave .
20 But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed .
21 The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed .
22 For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed .
23 It was dark with age and looked as if it had been coated with treacle .
24 Marie rammed the drawer shut as if it had burned her fingers .
25 His crushed throat felt as if it had a lump of stone lodged inside it .
26 He tried to scream the name but his throat felt as if it had been cauterized with a hot iron .
27 He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered .
28 The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar .
29 The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies .
30 The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night .
  Next page