Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Any record in the module which exceeds this width is flagged with |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out . |
| 11 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
| 12 | The Womens Artist Slide Library is pleased to announce that it has succeeded in retaining its Arts Council funding for the publication of Women 's Art Magazine and has been offered financial assistance towards the running of the organisation over the next year . |
| 13 | Despite appearing to be dumping on IBM Corp from a great height with its agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc — it points out users can move CICS off the mainframe and that mainframe upgrades can cost up to five times the price of an entire Sparccenter 2000 , Micro Focus Plc was yesterday also able to announce that it has won agreement with IBM for an expansion of their long-term relationship in MVS emulation products . |
| 14 | IBM Corp is using the show inter alia to announce that it has equipped all 30 models of its ValuePoint line with multi-media technology , which will be available on a built-to-order basis , using Creative Technologies Inc Soundblaster boards and other third party products : MultiMedia ValuePoints will range in price from $2,100 for an 80486SX model to about $3,500 for a high-end 80486 DX2 system . |
| 15 | Object Databases , the US arm of France 's Intellitic International , this weeks expects to announce that it has started porting Matisse , its object-oriented database , to Kendall Square Research 's KSR/1 family of general-purpose highly parallel systems based on OSF/1 . |
| 16 | Every organism continues to grow till it has reached its peak and then as its growth stops , deterioration sets in . |
| 17 | However much we may lament Mr Swinton 's recent seclusion , we are forced to conclude that it has done him nothing but good . |
| 18 | So concerned is Claris in making this easy to use that it has included 100 pre-programmed formulae . |
| 19 | But it is surely silly to deny that it has thrown politicians and television journalists together in an association that remains totally invisible to the public . |
| 20 | Now Ministers utter the word only in order to deny that it has happened . |
| 21 | Try to ensure that it has relieved itself before the journey , and do not feed the dog immediately before setting out , since this appears to increase the risk of travel sickness . |
| 22 | Steve Royle says they used the tank for teaching people to row and it has enabled him to see lots of students and they can now coach everybody the right technique . |
| 23 | As has been made clear in Chapters 6 and 9 , no one is really agreed as to how advertising works ; or how , and by what research means , to demonstrate that it has worked . |
| 24 | The governing body must be able to demonstrate that it has acted on reasonable grounds following reasonable investigations . |
| 25 | But it is idle , and indeed pernicious , to suppose that it has provided solutions of any worthwhile generality . |
| 26 | It is a particularly nasty parasite because it can be so difficult to eradicate once it has multiplied and affected your system . |
| 27 | It is also relevant to add that it has become increasingly easy to report matters to the police as a result of the spread of private telephones . |
| 28 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 29 | Those who think that the Labour party has become a safe party — a party that it would be safe to elect because it has learnt all its lessons — should not forget that it is a pretty wild dream to imagine that the Labour party would get a majority in the House . |
| 30 | The fact is that unless you have a reasonable understanding of what advertising can and can not achieve , you have absolutely no way of deciding what its role in a marketing programme is , what objectives should be set for it , and how to measure whether it has achieved those objectives . |