Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect is accentuated if the c.g. is near the aft limit and , in some cases , it is doubtful whether there is sufficient elevator authority to stop the pitching once it has gone beyond the early stages . |
| 2 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |
| 3 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 4 | This healthy contribution of commercial interests , which , after all , have experience and technical know-how which is often in short supply in ministries , deserves more recognition than it has received , especially since it does much to offset the squalid tale of the involvement by one British company at this time in corrupt monopoly state publishing ventures during the Obote and Nkrumah governments in Uganda and Ghana . |
| 5 | Because of the uncertainty of the outcome of future attempts to develop and test a research programme , it can never be said of any programme that it has degenerated beyond all hope . |
| 6 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 7 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 4p to 717p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 8 | Reed was also an early casualty , down 5p to 716p following confirmation that it has bought Robert Maxwell 's Official Airline Guides for 417m dollars ( £275m ) . |
| 9 | ‘ His mental state has been very stable since he has been in hospital and there is no indication that it has deteriorated recently , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 10 | If British tennis is to ever rise above the mediocrity that it has wallowed in for decades , then juniors have to be given greater access to courts and coaching . |
| 11 | Either its organisation is in so parlous a condition that it has to rely on active service units of such incompetence that they can not place bombs and give effective warnings . |
| 12 | Boil the wine rapidly in a small saucepan until it has reduced to approx 1 × 15ml/tbsp . |
| 13 | Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long . |
| 14 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 15 | It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated . |
| 16 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 17 | How can an electorate be expected to make up its mind until it has seen all the smears ? |
| 18 | In fact , it may enhance our pleasure if it has helped us to snatch success from the jaws of failure ! |
| 19 | That student is unable to get help from his educational institution because it has run out of its access funds . |
| 20 | The function of the check , as I have already mentioned , is to catch the hammer after it has hit the string . |
| 21 | Discard the bad peel after it has dried , then repolish and etch the face . |
| 22 | The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process . |
| 23 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 24 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 25 | Put the bean on a window-sill when it has started to grow . |
| 26 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 27 | The Scottish Examination Board is so concerned about the advent of the ‘ clever ’ calculator that it has redrafted its regulations to schools for maths exams . |
| 28 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , a sturdy member of the tiny band of small UK computer and software companies making their mark across the Atlantic , reports from its Mountain View , California Insignia Solutions Inc base that it has raised $4.75m in ‘ mezzanine ’ financing from Technology Venture Investors of Menlo Park , California , which gets one seat on the board of the High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire company 's board ; the investment is its first in a foreign company . |
| 29 | JSB Computer Systems Ltd last week announced from its Scotts Valley , California base that it has launched MultiView Desktop for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT with a view to helping the Microsoft challenger co-exist with Unix : the Macclesfield company says the product removes the potential for conflict by enabling users to run their existing Unix applications integrated with NT 's presentation capabilities , all the while preserving Unix as the central server system . |
| 30 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |