Example sentences of "[that] it has [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching .
2 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
3 Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so .
4 Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that inter alia sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers .
5 Now that it has flown the nest and decamped to Arden Hills , Minnesota , Control Data Systems Inc feels confident enough to start making acquisitions , and for its first , it has gone for Evernet Systems Inc , a Los Angeles network systems integrator that sells NetFrame Systems Inc servers .
6 This last provision looks so sweeping that there is a danger of supposing that it has swept away all difference between legal and equitable rights .
7 One reason why this recession is causing such alarm is that it has touched parts of rich countries ' economies that other recessions did not reach .
8 That it has achieved so much is largely due to the high regard in which Philip Hardman , chairman of the Faculty 's technical committee , Edwin Vidler , its secretary , and other members of the committee and its subcommittees are held by the Revenue departments .
9 Will my right hon. Friend take time to congratulate British industry on the fact that it has achieved record exports in the past quarter , that 27 of the top 50 European companies are British and that Britain exports more of its national product than Japan ?
10 Three-quarters of Oxfordshire teachers think that it has achieved this .
11 So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself .
12 I am sure that the Minister will congratulate Customs and Excise on the record seizures of drugs that it has undertaken .
13 So far , I am happy to say that in the case of children — I was about to come to that exception — and in the case of rape victims , the balance that Parliament has chosen , in that it has granted exceptions in those cases , has proved to be an effective one .
14 We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years .
15 Burnfield ( 1985 ) , a psychiatrist with multiple sclerosis , states : ‘ I believe that having MS has helped me to become more sensitive to the needs of others and that it has enhanced my skills as a healer .
16 It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports .
17 GLASGOW University can not be accused of isolation in academic ivory towers after today 's announcement that it has generated nearly £16 million in income from commercial and industrial sources in the last academic year .
18 Originally infers that the work is innovative rather than derivative , and that it has involved skill and creativity .
19 The local work force in Cumbernauld is very proud of the fact that it has exceeded the quality standards in OKI 's Japanese plants .
20 The local work force in Cumbernauld is very proud of the fact that it has exceeded the quality standards in OKI 's Japanese plants .
21 I receive no complaints of substance about the excellent health service in north Devon ; nor do I believe that it has exceeded its authority in any way .
22 However , it failed to mention in its release that it has dispensed with the services of IBM 's data engine in DME — apparently the object-oriented software is to complicated to integrate with the other technologies .
23 Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash .
24 The Scottish Examination Board is so concerned about the advent of the ‘ clever ’ calculator that it has redrafted its regulations to schools for maths exams .
25 The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with .
26 A repertoire of songs that it has heard
27 The society boasts that it has become the most successful single-issue pressure group since William Wilberforce and opposition to the slave trade .
28 In 1924 , though , Eliot has come to perceive The Golden Bough as a ‘ stupendous compendium of human superstition and folly ’ , seeing in it increasingly less ‘ interpretation ’ , so that it has become ‘ a statement of fact ’ which is not involved in the maintenance or fall of any theory of Frazer 's .
29 It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ .
30 Subsequently , President Moi has consolidated his position in such a way that it has become difficult , if not impossible , for anyone to challenge his position by constitutional means .
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