Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 2 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 3 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 4 | It was a pleasure to discover that it had escaped the sort of wholesale restoration so commonly carried out in the earlier part of this century . |
| 5 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 6 | It is a good idea to turn the main stopcock off and on once or twice each year to keep its mechanism free and not wait for an emergency to discover that it has jammed open . |
| 7 | He went into the college hall , and registered himself for matriculation among a rowdy assembly of students younger than himself ; and came out into the street to find that it had started to rain . |
| 8 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 9 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 10 | When the overconstrained design problem is viewed in this way it is not surprising to find that it has led most of the thinking of CAD systems . |
| 11 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 12 | Any record in the module which exceeds this width is flagged with |
| 13 | we need to know before it 's published |
| 14 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 15 | There is a wish to see a move from residential care to home care and , and home help and community based care , but to see that it 's done in an orderly fashion which does n't destabilize the market that 's out there , and does n't put at risk the care of elderly people who are already using those existing homes . |
| 16 | erm , all I can say is I 'm glad to see that it 's stopped being referred to as women 's troubles , you know and we 're actually bringing it out to the forefront . |
| 17 | Bloody man , I do n't want to see that it 's got three on it . |
| 18 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 19 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 20 | Where such qualifications may be allowed for certain warranties , the acquirer will probably require the seller to confirm that it has made all reasonable enquiries . |
| 21 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 22 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 23 | However , while the fact that it does lead to the possibility of new tests makes an hypothesis worthy of investigation , it will not rank as an improvement on the problematic theory it is designed to replace until it has survived at least some of those tests . |
| 24 | And then she 'd peep her head under the curtain to see if it had gone |
| 25 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 26 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 27 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 28 | I mean , if anybody asks you to see if it 's gone through our books it has n't , but |
| 29 | No wonder the Government of the day tried to conceal that it had spent public money on bringing some dotty lady down from her high table to tell us what it is to want what we want . |
| 30 | Well I 'm pleased to hear that it 's come back to Shrewsbury . |