Example sentences of "it have had " in BNC.

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1 Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years .
2 It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK — abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s , the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s , and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s .
3 The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success .
4 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
5 Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner .
6 Two undistinguished international seasons , only token involvement with the Lions in Australia and bitter controversy about South Africa have combined to give the game in Ireland possibly the worst public profile it has had .
7 It is the biggest influx of support it has had .
8 The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal .
9 It has had to soften its stance on separatism to try to convince the Sri Lankan Government and the Sinhalese people that it sincerely wants a negotiated settlement .
10 It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria .
11 In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash .
12 Inevitably it has had to lard its work with contingencies and question marks .
13 But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder .
14 The time and dedication demanded do not seem to put people off : the course is so popular that it has had to shift from a country house to a conference centre on an industrial estate in the Midlands .
15 It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple .
16 At the time the UK feed industry was concerned the situation should not escalate , but , in fact , it has had little impact on trade .
17 As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament .
18 Although their creation had the disadvantage of prolonging the existence of the House of Lords long beyond its natural term , it has had one beneficial effect in broadening the representation of women in parliament .
19 I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me .
20 It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party .
21 Mr Miller started his London restaurant business Kenny 's at the beginning of the recession and says that , what with high interest rates , business rates and rents , an increase in value added tax , plus the recession , it has had many problems .
22 It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’
23 The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) .
24 It broadcast the opening speeches on each day of the debate on the Queen 's Speech in 1989 ( when televising started ) ; it has stayed on after 3.50 pm on some Tuesdays or Thursdays to cover important ministerial statements ; and it has had special editions to cover the Budget and other major debates .
25 In referring to L Detachment , he stated that ‘ it has had conspicuous success in the past and its morale is high . ’
26 The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema .
27 We have to look at left criticism in the context of the harsh political climate in which it has had to survive , the resultant lack of opportunities to practice and develop , and the dominance of mainstream criticism and its supporting political ideas .
28 In this context , we shall assess how the Act has added to police power and what effect it has had when it has been used in tandem with the pre-existing law .
29 Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city .
30 We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food .
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