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

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1 The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect .
2 The Commission is careful to stress that it has no intention of developing a grand ‘ European Cultural Policy ’ .
3 Consequently , it is wrong to say that it has a grammatical function .
4 While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it .
5 I hope , when Siward comes with his army , that you find the field as easy to quit as it has been to enter . ’
6 So concerned is Claris in making this easy to use that it has included 100 pre-programmed formulae .
7 The comprehensive and pervasive nature of planning makes it easy to forget that it has very little to do with private rights and restrictions .
8 Humber Manure is not easy to get because it has a strong smell and shopkeepers think it drives their customers away !
9 But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is .
10 In view of the £632,000 of bid costs announced with yesterday 's figures the company was quick to stress that it has no other hostile targets in its sights .
11 The Board of Anglo-Welsh announces that it has to date purchased 722,000 ordinary shares in Palatine at 285p per share .
12 Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years …
13 When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them .
14 And they all agreed that it has .
15 After that claim it is good to know that it has a — precision quartz movement ’ that rotates the hour , minute and second discs .
16 Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday .
17 Leigh Environmental says that it has considered the inspector 's report on the Doncaster site and has ‘ nothing more to say ’ on the matter .
18 Although this rule could be represented and applied within a symbolic system , it is reasonable to suggest that it has been ‘ learnt ’ by the evolutionary process and is embodied in the flies ' neurophysiology .
19 Many suspect that it has weakened auditors ' ability to take a strong line with directors .
20 The latest statistics , for 1991/ 92 , show that it leapt again to 65% and preliminary estimates for 1992/93 indicate that it has gone even higher .
21 ‘ It is now about five years since this all started and it has been quite stressful but I feel pretty strongly about what happened to me and my child and I am determined to see it through .
22 The Marxist theory of imperialism has been robustly challenged and robustly defended from many directionsl and it has left its mark on most subsequent theories of the global system .
23 ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . )
24 It is both salutary and stimulating to show that it has roots in people 's minds .
25 A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected .
26 Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products .
27 However , it is safe to assert that it has always had a strong emphasis upon personal development and upon the intrinsic worth of education per se ; and , equally , that a critical , open-ended and analytical approach , and a ‘ democratic ’ teaching mode , have characterised the provision of the RBs for many years .
28 The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out .
29 To say that the cat perceives the ball is stuck requires that it has the belief that it is , and this involves its possessing the concepts ‘ ball ’ and ‘ stuck ’ .
30 The governing body must be able to demonstrate that it has acted on reasonable grounds following reasonable investigations .
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