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

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1 Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases .
2 The bulk of coil production is for the building industry but it has a wide range of other applications , from washing machines to venetian blinds .
3 The barley which is grown in the Borders is particularly useful to the whisky industry because it has a high starch and low nitrogen content .
4 The Court held that the Commission is under a duty to disclose such documents to national cartel authorities and it has no discretion to choose not to do so .
5 Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton .
6 Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra .
7 They carefully adjust the pitch of the outgoing hoots , in such a way as to keep the pitch of the echo constant after it has been Doppler-shifted .
8 That the pretended power of dispensing with lawes or the Execution of lawes by regall authority as it has been assumed and exercised of late is illegall .
9 This simple model shows an exponential increase ii sales during the period of the advertising campaign , and an exponential decay after it has ended .
10 I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results .
11 We may , indeed we have not , always made ourselves popular in arguing for reform of humanitarian aid system but it has certainly been effective and we are never , but never , ignored .
12 The company says the concoction is available by mail order but it has no plans to mass produce it .
13 Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century .
14 That will have serious consequences , because where there is a small increase in spending by a local authority , high gearing will result in a large increase in the council tax that it has to levy .
15 Nevertheless , the lack of genuine progress toward peace in the region during the period 1967–88 casts doubt upon the validity of the peace process as it has been conceived .
16 The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up .
17 Walt Disney may well have appreciated a tool like this for taking the drudgery out of the cartoon business but it has more serious applications in logo design and very effective business graphics ; one of the stock Adobe illustrations is a plot of the stock market showing a bull turning into a bear !
18 The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways .
19 A recurrent theme in the literature is that the position of business in relation to government differs from that of other interest groups by virtue of the possession by companies of ‘ real ’ power — social decision-making power as it has been termed above .
20 The end result may sometimes be less polished than purpose-made demonstration material but case study material is intended as a working document of current classroom practice and it has the advantage of flexibility in the ways it can be used .
21 The coal industry has a good safety record and it has a strong safety culture reflecting the accumulated wisdom of the management , the work force and the mines inspectorate .
22 I think just about everyone knows the Neon Tetra and it has hit the top of the polls regularly as people 's most favourite fish .
23 It 's really much more than a cleaning service because it has helped me emotionally , ’ she says .
24 They do not distinguish between individual dogs , and so the sound of a neighbour 's dog may cause yours to receive a punishment shock when it has not actually been barking .
25 Athena is part of the Pentos Group which also owns Ryman and the Dillons bookshop chain and it has a substantial organisation which goes into play to support new franchisees .
26 Note that baths and shower trays have a low waste trap , so there will be problems getting sufficient fall on the waste pipe if it has to run all the way across a room under floorboards .
27 The Institute is so concerned about the smaller firms that are giving up training chartered accountant students that it has set up two working parties to explore ways to make the training system more attractive .
28 Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies .
29 Labour MP Martin Redmond has introduced a bill into parliament which seeks to protect public access to forest land after it has been sold off .
30 It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna .
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