Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have been so sensible , fair and reasonable with Lovell Homes that it 's probably been to our detriment . |
| 2 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 3 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 4 | The USSR must not be given the chance to persuade Germans that it had more to offer than the West on the subject of unification and neutralization . |
| 5 | The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom . |
| 6 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 7 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 8 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 9 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 10 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 11 | Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) . |
| 12 | Instead of guarantees that the story really happened , we get promises that it has all been made up . |
| 13 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 14 | The second ( b ) suggests that the ratio may not increase as steadily in the mid-1980s as it had hitherto because the freeze on places and the shift towards science and technology would militate against women . |
| 15 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 16 | The requirement is as real as any other in the construction industry , but it is interesting to note that take-up in the RICS , with its earlier commitment to obligatory CPD , has been higher than in other professions where it has so far been voluntary . |
| 17 | A hundred years after his death his approach seems more relevant to botanical studies than it has ever been . |
| 18 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 19 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 20 | It depends on contexts in parse trees , and the algorithm can only calculate parse trees if it has enough AND symbols ; so clustering depends on the set of available AND symbols . |
| 21 | From this false start , their marriage had many more vicissitudes until it has now reached a point where there now exists between them a thinly disguised mutual antipathy . |
| 22 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 23 | His symbols were circles with different patterns inside them ; presumably circles because it had always been taken for granted that atoms were spheres . |
| 24 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
| 25 | Allelic losses , insertions , and point mutations have been detected on many other chromosomes but it has still to be established whether such changes function simply as markers for colorectal cancer , or as potential prognostic indicators . |
| 26 | The Government has taken steps to improve court procedures but it has steadfastly refused to introduce a legal right to interest . |
| 27 | If I 've got to print them off from my computer and the computer 's er not exactly in bits but it 's just taken apart a bit at the moment so I need to put it back together again and print them off . |
| 28 | And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before . |
| 29 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 30 | A classical model was produced by Penck and Bruckner in 1909 and this involved four main glaciations although it has subsequently been appreciated that the sediments on which this four-fold sequence was based represented only a small proportion of the time span , and unconformities between each successive terrace probably conceal events lost to the record regionally or locally ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |