Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] it has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 2 | This year we decided at the AGM to visit the Llangollen Railway , having learnt from the railway press that it has made rapid progress in the last three years . |
| 3 | But that policy has come in for sharp criticism from monetarists who insist that it has fed the rapid expansion of broad money supply , M4 , and inflamed inflationary pressures . |
| 4 | Spokesman Kevin Flynn added : ‘ We regret that it has occured . |
| 5 | But the latest results from an experiment designed to detect neutrino oscillations show that it has failed to find any such effects , as the group leader Felix Boehm announced at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society last week in Baltimore . |
| 6 | If the dog tries to follow you wait until it has readopted a sitting posture . |
| 7 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 8 | Many suspect that it has weakened auditors ' ability to take a strong line with directors . |
| 9 | Competition in facilities at home and abroad would prevail , Spottiswoode believed , for a generation to come — we know that it has gone on ever since . |
| 10 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 11 | I know that it has happened in some regions , but that is certainly not evident in the areas of which I am most aware , where the problem seems great . |
| 12 | The latest statistics , for 1991/ 92 , show that it leapt again to 65% and preliminary estimates for 1992/93 indicate that it has gone even higher . |
| 13 | It is all too easy to take and agree to a request for samples , ring up the appropriate department or dispatch centre and happily assume that it has gone . |
| 14 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 15 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 16 | I shall give way if Opposition Members wish to deny that , but I believe that it has happened . |
| 17 | Theirs is a perfectly good decision that need only become a problem if at a later stage they find that it has become too difficult to share their life and a potential relationship disintegrates through their selfishness . |
| 18 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 19 | My problem is that over the last 4 or 5 years , I 've been having my hair highlighted and gradually I feel that it has become too blonde . |
| 20 | If it is set too low , then Offline will accomplish its workload using less ‘ portions ’ ie. it will calculate how many blocks can be stored and then continue until it has achieved that workload regardless of the 15 minute factor . |
| 21 | All City insurance analysts believe that in any event Australian Mutual will not get the Pearl for the 605p per share bid that it has made . |
| 22 | The many people who claim that it has seem to me to deceive themselves and others . |
| 23 | After all , despite the large and growing market place for CBT , many commentators argue that it has failed to deliver really effective training at other than procedural levels . |
| 24 | cf. the Burial Service in The Book of Common Prayer : ‘ Forasmuch as it has pleased Almighty God … to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed … |
| 25 | Three-quarters of Oxfordshire teachers think that it has achieved this . |
| 26 | The Marxist theory of imperialism has been robustly challenged and robustly defended from many directionsl and it has left its mark on most subsequent theories of the global system . |
| 27 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 28 | Give the commands ‘ sit and stay ’ before leaving the dog , and check that it has remained in position before entering the shop . |
| 29 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 30 | Never take the dog 's food away if you discover that it has misbehaved , or if it refuses to sit . |