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

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1 A repertoire of songs that it has heard
2 Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years .
3 In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age .
4 The legitimate questions for a judge in his role as interpreter of the enacted law are : ‘ How has Parliament , by the words that it has used in the statute to express its intentions , defined the category of acts that are entitled to the immunity ?
5 The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once .
6 The acquirer should refuse finally to settle the terms of the warranties until it has seen the disclosure letter and disclosure material .
7 In the past , Sun has turned over high-end graphics products to third parties because it has deemed growth at the high-end of that market to small to warrant its continued investment ( UX No 357 ) .
8 The success of the variety multiples has meant that manufacturers have had to reappraise their sales channels as it has meant a concentration of purchasing power into fewer hands .
9 But the bottom line for most of BP 's 8,000 Scottish employees are the indicators which the results give about the state of the company 's ‘ core ’ exploration and production business based on operations in the North Sea and other areas where it has concentrated its upstream operating resources .
10 That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank .
11 That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’
12 The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions .
13 We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation .
14 It then works its way back through all the calls until it has completed the final multiplication , when it returns the answer .
15 But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred .
16 To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at .
17 The company should then use the segments that it has defined as targets against which products may be positioned .
18 Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack .
19 However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled .
20 The town has always been a primary IRA target but this is the first time in many years that it has singled out the commercial centre .
21 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
22 Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing .
23 In the 1960s , the Fraternity of Salvadorean Women sought to incorporate women into the political opposition through addressing their specific needs and it has functioned as something of a model for the organizations founded in the late 1970s .
24 ‘ Now , Roger , it 's obvious — you have worn that chain for a few days and it has left a mark .
25 A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets .
26 Although you will not be able to take your puppy out for a walk in public places until it has completed its course of inoculation , at about 12 weeks old , the intervening weeks up to this point will be useful in familiarizing the dog with walking on a leash .
27 We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work .
28 about three years and it has bled a couple of times .
29 The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin .
30 Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks .
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