Example sentences of "it have reached " in BNC.

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1 But of all of these , Integrated Pollution Control is the only significant measure aimed at preventing pollution at source rather than dealing with it once it has reached the environment .
2 What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence .
3 The latter specification defines a satisfactory product ; it is only when the product has undergone change to the extent that it no longer complies fully with the check or shelf-life specification that it has reached the end of its shelf-life .
4 The period which elapses until a product at the limit of the release specification at the time of manufacture , changes until it has reached the limit of the check specification , is the minimum shelf-life ; the product which is close to the nominal value at the time of manufacture will continue to comply with the check specification for longer than this .
5 Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years .
6 To prove my point , it is a well-known fact that barbel quite often grab the ‘ feeder itself , sometimes even before it has reached bottom .
7 Every organism continues to grow till it has reached its peak and then as its growth stops , deterioration sets in .
8 It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer .
9 Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold .
10 Ideally , of course , one hopes to get the case before it has reached this stage .
11 It has reached the point that our enthusiastic consumption has become more of a risk than an asset .
12 In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age .
13 It has reached the viewers and , perhaps more importantly , its success has guaranteed its subscribers , the ITV companies , more than enough revenue to match their subscriptions to the service .
14 It has reached a point where some of the guiding agencies report that clients will not go up a hill unless it is in a category .
15 SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects .
16 SHL Systemhouse Inc says it has reached agreement with the state-owned Canada Post Corp to negotiate a 10-year facilities management contract covering all of Canada Post 's data processing , telecommunications and system management needs , SHL said in a statement ; the value of the pact was not released ; it will provide full mainframe services from its data centres in Ottawa and Halifax and help Canada Post to accelerate the change from a mainframe environment to distributed client-server architecture .
17 Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter .
18 It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% .
19 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
20 It has reached definitive agreement to acquire the company outright , paying $17.25m for the other 89% .
21 Normally it is very faint — below magnitude 14 — but it has shown outbursts in 1890 , 1902 , 1944 and 1966 , when it has reached magnitude 7 .
22 Each currency is allocated a maximum percentage deviation against its ECU central rate , and when it has reached this limit there is the presumption ( but not an obligation ) that the domestic government concerned will undertake remedial action .
23 It has reached beyond the dealers to the previously untapped market of individual buyers .
24 And it has reached that point now .
25 The external world exists for the child only at that level of complexity which is compatible with the stage of development it has reached .
26 According to some , it has reached ‘ an all-time low ’ .
27 It has reached definitive agreement to purchase Boston Five and its subsidiaries for approximately US $95 million .
28 ‘ Per venit ad aures nostras — It has reached our ears , most beloved Son in Christ … ‘ , followed by the usual sanctimonious phrases , then the allegations of sodomy , murder , the unsuitability of the Prince of Wales for an innocent French princess , the dissolution of the treaty , all culminating in bloody war .
29 I am sure that the 7 million or so patients who will benefit from nurses being able to prescribe will be grateful that he has chosen a Bill which will certainly be passed and will certainly — once it has reached the statute book and is implemented — have practical benefits for that many patients .
30 It is being sold as a war in the U.S. and it has reached an emotional level to equal that of contests of a more combative nature like boxing or American football .
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