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

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1 ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition .
2 ‘ I 've got my anorak and it has a hood .
3 Now I have him in my corner and it has turned my career around .
4 I consider this a monstrous libel and gross slur on my reputation and it has caused grave distress and embarrassment to me and is of course highly defamatory .
5 The Private Practice and Professional Fees Committee of the BMA agrees that none of this adequately explains the rise in my premium and it has expressed astonishment at the figures I have provided .
6 How can an electorate be expected to make up its mind until it has seen all the smears ?
7 There is no doubt in her mind that it has all been worthwhile .
8 The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ .
9 The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions .
10 It is therefore idle for a British government to start telling managers how to run their companies until it has itself learned how to carry out its own duty to maintain a sound and stable currency .
11 It has remained at approximately the same latitude since its discovery but it has changed in size , reaching its maximum size of 40 000 × 13 000 km about 100 years ago .
12 Faced with the prospect of partial closure if it ca n't convince its parent that it has a viable future serving third party customers , IBM France SA 's plant is energetically laying plans to exploit its skills in chip packaging , in particular IBM 's proprietary technology for surface-mounting chips on multi-layer ceramic substrates to create multi-chip modules .
13 N.B. Kwik-fit Child Safety Centres will supply and fit a child seat for £28.50 and give a full refund on its return when it has been outgrown .
14 But goodness can choose to change its nature if it has true freedom of will .
15 It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none .
16 If a large customer is late in making payment , a firm may be unable to pay its suppliers unless it has spare liquidity .
17 Yesterday her mum Jane said : ‘ I wish I had her back but it has taken away some of the emptiness to know that Paula lives on and she was able to help young and old .
18 BREWER and retailer Whitbread has begun advising more than 1,000 of its tenants that it has arranged deals to lease their pubs to a string of brewers and pub groups as part of a move to comply with the Government 's beer orders .
19 The original Hammerite got its name because it has a finish like a hammered metal ; a smooth version is also available .
20 Angola has its problems but it has no ex-colonial links with this country .
21 It can be photographed in its packaging if it has any , it can be photographed in use or it can be photographed in an unusual setting .
22 On this page , Nick Roe visits a plant which , despite strenuous public relations efforts , has failed to convince its neighbours that it has come clean .
23 It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions .
24 However , it failed to mention in its release that it has dispensed with the services of IBM 's data engine in DME — apparently the object-oriented software is to complicated to integrate with the other technologies .
25 Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring .
26 He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat .
27 Hence , the horse may spend the day avoiding mature people , and then find to its surprise that it has been caught by a child-foal that it had not perceived as possessing such ability .
28 There are certain other circumstances in which this problem of unduly encouraging an authority to reach a particular decision does not arise and in which a scheme of compensation might be feasible and desirable : where there is no question of a decision being re-made , notably where the time-limit for challenging an allegedly illegal decision has run out ( through no fault of the applicant ) ; or where a citizen has suffered loss by relying on a representation by a public body that it will act in a particular way , in circumstances where the law will not require the body to make good its representation because it has undertaken to act illegally ; or where a court exercises its discretion not to quash an illegal decision In such cases the problem of causation does not exist because the decision in question will not be reconsidered .
29 The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds .
30 Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us .
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