Example sentences of "[noun pl] it has [verb] " in BNC.

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1 While the new law may succeed in exposing the burgeoning volume of ‘ Indian theme ’ objects coming to the US , in the fine arts it has sent some Indian artists on the warpath .
2 In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) .
3 Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations .
4 However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered .
5 For example , the investment management section of a financial organisation is advising customers to buy shares in a company which is thought generally to have good prospects ; unknown to that section , the company has consulted the corporate finance department of the same organisation about how to deal with serious losses it has suffered but which are not yet publicly known .
6 SunSoft Inc is likely to announce that is finally ready to send out developers ’ kits for its Solaris 2.0-on-Intel operating system to the personal computer manufacturers it has lined up .
7 In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees , consisting of representatives of senior management , the internal audit department and external auditors , to meet .
8 It 's thought Sun Microsystems Inc 's long-awaited Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) wholly-owned subsidiary based in Moscow will be formally announced at the beginning of the company 's financial year in August ( UX No 424 ) : headed by Robert Hall , the four-strong team is awaiting phone lines and the refurbishment of offices it has leased in the Russin capital — they 're working out of their own apartments at the moment .
9 The company says that overseas royalties it has earned on behalf of the authors , artists and publishers it represents have increased five-fold in the last three years , and that it currently licenses its properties in 25 countries .
10 It may be able to replace the funds it has lost by borrowing from other parts of the non-bank private sector , but if it fails , then it will have to resort to residual finance from the monetary sector .
11 Simple method , depending on continuity : The robot keeps a set , called R , of all the solutions it has found .
12 As strategic planning is concerned with broad policies and goals it has to relate the organisation to its environment and predict the effects of any changes in that environment .
13 It has proposed a community-based programme of punishment but in order to sell this to both the judiciary and its supporters it has constructed around it a rhetoric of toughness .
14 The company ended the guessing game on Wall Street about how many units it has delivered .
15 Of course during the ramp 's 11 year history as well as making professional skaters it has attracted a fair few .
16 The single market of 1992 finds the solicitors ' profession in a prime position to take advantage of all the opportunities it has to offer .
17 It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought .
18 It is also true that Parliament 's opinion is ascertained primarily from the words it has used .
19 Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’
20 It is probably time that this was reconsidered ; in secondary schools it has led to absurdities like the daily dose , the thirty-five minute lesson , and the conviction that , though all subjects are theoretically equal ( hence the standard four period per week allocation ) some ( English and maths ) are more equal than others , and need a longer allocation .
21 When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying in and in one or two other schools , it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing O Level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying , and in other schools it has happened in other subjects .
22 In other schools it has happened in other subjects .
23 In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown .
24 Over the last 15 months it has undergone a complete refurbishment which aims to unravel the phenomena of time , space and astronomy through 12 new galleries .
25 In the last few months it has introduced a mortgage rescue package and plans to use empty flats above shops in a further bit to get waiting lists down .
26 The company says that in the last six months it has sold over 600 Ingres Search Accelerator add-on boards .
27 The way in which social policy has evolved , the directions it has taken , its appropriateness to perceived problems , therefore stand in marked contrast to western models and justify examination in their own right .
28 DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project .
29 ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms .
30 Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form .
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