Example sentences of "it have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 2 | It has probably never entered his entered that his Test career could be over . |
| 3 | Shortly before this stage — around the tenth year but with a wide variability — the hypothalamus , a small area at the base of the brain , somehow " triggers " a small gland just below it ( the pituitary gland ) into producing two hormones which it has not previously produced . |
| 4 | But must a foraging hyena be conscious of the food it has not yet uncovered , or a homing salmon aware of its destination as it begins the laborious trip upstream to its natal stream to spawn ; both exemplars of goal-seeking behaviour ? |
| 5 | One step Labour could take is to adopt the final part of the SDP/SLD agenda it has not yet embraced — electoral and constitutional reform . |
| 6 | Although it has not yet achieved an acceptability on a par with headhunting in America , it has now established a recognised niche in British business , and is thrusting deeper into the corporate jungle . |
| 7 | I was wrong : it has not yet fulfilled its promise . |
| 8 | The commercial paper market might still challenge these established markets , although for the reasons discussed above it has not yet developed critical mass . |
| 9 | ‘ Then doubtless it has not yet fallen . |
| 10 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 11 | It has not yet reached that target and I urge it to re-examine its spending allocations to make sure that it does . |
| 12 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 13 | Metrologie International SA , Paris , reported yesterday that turnover for 1992 slumped 35% to the equivalent of $470m , and that turnover from continuing operations fell 23.6% in the last quarter and 15.7% in the year as a whole ; it has not yet totted up its loss for 1992 . |
| 14 | It has not yet transacted any business but will look at ways to develop commercial opportunities . |
| 15 | It has not yet proved possible to constrain the variation of density with depth in Venus . |
| 16 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 17 | ‘ Crime of Love ’ is Trestle 's latest production , so new that it has not yet started rehearsals as we go to press . |
| 18 | Such a road would be a scenic delight and give an alternative road to the Isles but it has not yet happened and , it is to be hoped , never will . |
| 19 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 20 | T.W. Mayer Jr was to write in 1837 : ‘ Pathology … exhibits considerable progress , though it has not yet attained that perfection which is desirable ’ . |
| 21 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 22 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 23 | Although platinum is now the most costly of the precious metals , it is dealt with last because it has not yet attracted the affection or exerted the influence of either gold or silver . |
| 24 | President Bush took a considerable gamble with this invasion , and it has not yet paid off . |
| 25 | 10.8.13 Without prejudice to its obligations under the foregoing provisions each Party undertakes to each other Party that ( insofar as it has not already done so ) it will procure undertakings from relevant employees members of staff and students to enable it to perform those said obligations . |
| 26 | The Purchaser should investigate the Business , if it has not already done so |
| 27 | Unless the owner stipulates to the contrary , the property passes on delivery , if it has not already passed , and the buyer obtains a voidable title . |
| 28 | If it has not already come , First Interstate should be expecting a telephone call soon . |
| 29 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |
| 30 | This , he believes , is what has made Unisys Corp ‘ the most profitable computer company in the world ’ — since the merger of Univac and Burroughs , it has not only kept headcount low , but also used the profits generated from mainframe sales to develop portable software applications . |