Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical . |
| 2 | Any loan from the bank involves a risk of default , and the bank will be concerned about this even though it has sought security from the firm . |
| 3 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 4 | Ophiolimna is included in this subfamily because it has elongated jaws , a similar arrangement of the oral and adoral shields to the other genera in the Ophiotominae . |
| 5 | If it does indeed prove to be the case that the GCSE becomes outmoded almost before it has begun , for the reasons discussed in this chapter , this will represent a tragic waste of scarce educational resources . |
| 6 | It is not clear however whether it has a neuronal-specific regulatory role , because the data obtained in non neuronal cells were obtained by transient transfections in cells that do not show any hypersensitive sites in this region of the promoter of the endogenous NF-L gene . |
| 7 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 8 | For a start the required reduction in the price level may have to be very large indeed before it has a significant impact on aggregate spending . |
| 9 | The group as a whole is in the black only because it has income from an American retailing chain Silo and from financial services and property deals in Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed the working relationship between the two is as good now as it has ever been . ’ |
| 11 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
| 12 | The Picador 21st Birthday Book which could be very good indeed since it has asked 21 of its top authors to write an original personal memoir on an important year . |
| 13 | The name of document area shows the name of the document onscreen only after it has been saved , and the unbroken border until then . |
| 14 | After forcing the gannet down on to the sea , the skua just does n't let it get airborne again until it has vomited up its cropful of fish . |
| 15 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 16 | Accordingly , a stimulus will be relatively ineffective both when it has itself recently occurred and also when it is presented along with cues that have previously signalled its occurrence . |
| 17 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 18 | Wordsworth 's poem could well be set as in Example 47 : Of course , this kind of writing can be highly poetic , but there is also a danger of falling into aimless meandering , or of not being memorable precisely because it has no metrical background . |
| 19 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 20 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 21 | ‘ The police service is arguably more efficient now than it has ever been . |
| 22 | It is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned . |
| 23 | A cat inhibits the desire to chase the bird until it is ready so that it has the highest chance of success . |
| 24 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |