Example sentences of "[det] [conj] it has " in BNC.

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1 Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform .
2 Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions .
3 ‘ We have approached the council about this and it has just not moved , ’ she said .
4 You know this because it has one of the vaguely portentous two-word titles in the tradition of Fatal Attraction , Presumed Innocent and Final Analysis .
5 In other words the limits on the knowing subject 's cognition are such that it has to be mediated in a social and discursive context for anything like truth to be achieved :
6 The influence of Leavis is such that it has been claimed that :
7 The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter .
8 Not all the people who have been called structuralists have been happy to accept the label , but this suggests not so much that it has been over-enthusiastically applied , but that far from being a school or a doctrine , structuralism is indeed a generalized revolution in ways of thinking .
9 It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world .
10 Well I do n't like it very much but it has this very interesting discussion as to whether a fax was cheaper or more expensive than the telephone
11 If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ?
12 The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) .
13 as much as it has there we look like getting .
14 Talking to journalist Brian Connell , he said : ‘ You have got to choose somebody very carefully who could fulfil this particular role because people like you , perhaps , would expect quite a lot from somebody like that and it has got to be somebody pretty special . ’
15 I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you .
16 I have no idea of the circumstances connected with that but it has nothing to do with whether someone may be an asylum seeker .
17 Now I 'm sure there are some nice lads among the Young Farmers good salt of the earth stock and all that but it has to be said that , in the sweeping generalisation way of things , they are a generally unpleasant breed .
18 BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers .
19 Its six is n't a BMW six — not smooth and eager , but more stolid and insistent , bigger on torque than on power and with no special desire to rev more than it has to .
20 The interest of some countries , notably Romania , in a doctrine of ‘ national defence ’ has not impressed Poland 's military commanders any more than it has their Soviet patrons .
21 That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past .
22 In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far .
23 I note that the report to which the hon. Gentleman refers says : ’ Labour , if elected , would have little scope for increased spending in the early years unless it were willing to increase taxes by more than it has indicated . ’
24 Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe .
25 The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories .
26 Sport has helped to give the English a coherent national culture no less than it has the Irish , the Welsh , or the Scots .
27 As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years .
28 Whose face is more your own that it has ever been ;
29 Japan has few energy resources of its own and it has learnt to be frugal : energy prices are approximately twice those in Britain .
30 A particular fish either ends up on its own because it has been badly injured , or has lost its mate , or may have been bought on impulse , the reasons are many and varied .
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