Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |
| 2 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 3 | So once it 's got onto our approved list , we 're pretty sure that we 're , we 're really in the right area . |
| 4 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 5 | Okay , so once it 's signed and accepted , the client , does their part of the bargain , i.e. pays their premiums , then there 's no way we can decide to opt out of the contract , |
| 6 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 7 | Water had dripped on to the paper so that it had become sodden and merged with the lettuce leaves . |
| 8 | So that it 's done . |
| 9 | It 's got spies in it , so that it 's got certain contemporary interest , but erm that did seem to me to be a very fine and very moving novel , which I 'd strongly recommend . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | It will , though , be tempered by the healing gap of time , so that it has become ‘ This time the year before last … ’ not ‘ This time last year … ’ . |
| 13 | So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ . |
| 14 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 15 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 16 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 17 | Writers in this tradition emphasize that there has been an historical change in the cultural and social meaning of the term ‘ family ’ over time , so that it has come to mean essentially the unit based on marriage and parenthood , with a secondary role only accorded to other kin relationships . |
| 18 | It has never been a strong language because it has produced little or no literature , so that it has seemed to have more of folklore about it than utility . |
| 19 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 21 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 22 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 23 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 24 | It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you . |
| 25 | Float , you pu , you put your plug in and it 's attached to the plug and it floats on the top of your bath when you 're having a bath . |
| 26 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 27 | Type it in and it 's captured , done , and they use digital photography or remote scanners . |
| 28 | Erm and then any domestic policy which affects the outside , so that 's a projection of domestic interests erm into the outside world , so I 'll show you what I 've written down and it 's influenced by what you 've got in that book by Clarke , I 'm afraid it falls off the end a bit , foreign policy is a government activity concerned with relations between the state and other actors in the international arena , that should be . |
| 29 | No , cos the water 's not coming up above your face , the water 's filled the whole going down and it 's got gates . |
| 30 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |