Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 2 | First , judicial review may be allowed in cases where the applicant has pursued the alternative remedy but the procedure appears unlikely to produce a satisfactory outcome ; or if it has become seriously delayed . |
| 3 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 4 | It examines whether the shareholders of the acquiring firms gain from the takeover because their firm has become more efficient or because it has become more powerful and monopolistic . |
| 5 | Should it be abolished either because its use is unjustified or because it has fallen into disuse ? |
| 6 | The Court also considered the reverse situation , where the third party claims that it has become entitled to the benefits of a Convention , either because it has declared itself willing to be bound , or because it has shown its willingness by its conduct . |
| 7 | Thus in many cases where a buyer seeks to reject goods supplied under a sale contract , it does so because the transaction has proved uneconomical , for instance because the market has fallen , or because it has found a cheaper source of supply ; it may then sieze on any trivial breach , or any ambiguity in the contract , in order to justify rejection of the goods . |
| 8 | The reader must decide , by attending to other clues , whether the continuation is still part of the reported speech , or whether it has reverted to the ‘ author 's voice ’ . |
| 9 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 10 | Burnfield ( 1985 ) , a psychiatrist with multiple sclerosis , states : ‘ I believe that having MS has helped me to become more sensitive to the needs of others and that it has enhanced my skills as a healer . |
| 11 | You can imagine my relief now that it 's all over , and that it has turned out to be such a beautiful , conventional , dream wedding . |
| 12 | My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system . |
| 13 | The company says all previous Unix systems have been based on a clock granularity of 100Hz and that it has developed an extension that allows an operator to select the clock or alarm granularity that optimises the equipment . |
| 14 | Originally infers that the work is innovative rather than derivative , and that it has involved skill and creativity . |
| 15 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 16 | Publication in a high-impact factor journal such as Nature represents an acknowledgment that the work is at the cutting edge of science , and that it has made a significant contribution to that science . |
| 17 | Does the Minister agree that the loans scheme has turned out to be an administrative nightmare and that it has caused a great deal of bureaucracy and hardship to students , especially since they have been removed from the safety net of social security ? |
| 18 | It seems to me there is no foundation for it whatever ; all that a court of justice can look to is the parliamentary roll ; they see that an Act has passed both Houses of Parliament , and that it has received the royal assent , and no court of justice can inquire into the manner in which it was introduced into Parliament , what was done previously to its being introduced , or what passed in Parliament during the various stages of its progress through both Houses of Parliament . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend aware that my constituency is extremely attractive geographically for countries making inward investment in Britain and that it has prospered from such inward investment ? |
| 20 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 21 | Xerox Corp announced yesterday that it had developed an advanced ink-jet technology that uses a 128-nozzle print head for desktop computer printers , and that it has retained Tokyo Electric Co Ltd to assemble the printers ; Xerox is manufacturing the printers ' ink-jet cartridges at its Canandaigua , New York plant ; it notes that the 128 nozzles enable faster print speeds than competing printers ; the printer will ship later this year . |
| 22 | With a relatively tiny home market , Ericsson is always short of the resources it needs to stay at the leading edge of its chosen industry , where the cost of major development projects is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars , and although it has developed its own TMOS Telecommunications Management and Operations Support software suite — which runs under Unix — it needs the muscle of a company like Hewlett-Packard to exploit the product . |
| 23 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 24 | The other , and more serious , disadvantage of the Helblaster is that it is inclined to jam or misfire , and once it has misfired it is useless . |
| 25 | The forest also recycles nutrients and once it has gone all fertility goes with it . |
| 26 | And once it has found you , it is yours for life . |
| 27 | An enormous amount of skill , equipment , patience , money and sheer luck goes into the breeding of new varieties , and if it has become customary to have to be seen to be introducing six , eight , ten , a dozen or whatever new varieties every year in order to be regarded as one of the top flight nurseries , then that is what they have to do — and who can blame them for wanting to recoup their investment by selling all they can ? |
| 28 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 29 | However worthy its intentions , and however able its personnel , no government will be able to put Britain right unless and until it has modernised our constitution . |
| 30 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |