Example sentences of "the [noun pl] it have [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 2 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 3 | But with the coming of the Garrimpos it 's grown steadily filthier and more toxic , contaminated by things visible and invisible . |
| 4 | In the cases it has dealt with to date , the Commission has shown itself willing to clear horizontal mergers which produce high market shares , where there is strong competition from actual or potential competitors . |
| 5 | The criticism is that these problems have left DGIV with far too much power to act as both prosecutor and judge in the cases it has pursued . |
| 6 | And this is one of the reasons it has decided to go public — as a way of preserving its own identity and of winning itself recognition . |
| 7 | Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory . |
| 8 | ‘ Britain 's less adaptable , less skilled work-force is one of the reasons it has got stuck trying to compete with the high volume , low-wage countries . ’ |
| 9 | The Institute has played a major part in the development of the Construction Industry Council and the policies it has developed on the key issues affecting the industry . |
| 10 | And the improvements it has produced at the Bridgwater , UK , company , which makes high technology flexible packaging material , have already impressed several key customers . |
| 11 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |
| 12 | In 1973 the Libyan leader , Gaddafi , indirectly attacked Egypt for the concessions it had made . |
| 13 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 14 | Simple method , depending on continuity : The robot keeps a set , called R , of all the solutions it has found . |
| 15 | It may be able to replace the funds it has lost by borrowing from other parts of the non-bank private sector , but if it fails , then it will have to resort to residual finance from the monetary sector . |
| 16 | The move follows the £1.4m out-of-court settlement agreed in July with the Tunstall Group , which had been suing the firm for damages for the losses it had incurred in purchasing Sound Diffusion shares ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 15 ) . |
| 17 | However , it could provide ammunition for legal action which Ferranti intends to take against advisers and individuals in an attempt to recover some of the losses it has suffered . |
| 18 | It is also true that Parliament 's opinion is ascertained primarily from the words it has used . |
| 19 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |
| 20 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 21 | But by the mid-1960s it had become evident that the post-war promise of unlimited prosperity and the reduction of class conflict was illusory . |
| 22 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
| 23 | ( a ) Defining obligations A party may seek to restrict its liability by defining in the contract the obligations it has undertaken . |
| 24 | She was silent for a moment , thinking of the drudgery to which Hubert 's vision had condemned her and of the advantages it had denied the children . |
| 25 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 26 | As well as activities such as observing , measuring , drawing , describing or using the artefact , time needs to be programmed in for creative and imaginative responses — telling the tale of a battered Victorian penny , the hands it has passed through , the articles it has bought , for instance . |
| 27 | The Eastern problem and the emotions it had aroused were still with us . |
| 28 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 29 | The way in which social policy has evolved , the directions it has taken , its appropriateness to perceived problems , therefore stand in marked contrast to western models and justify examination in their own right . |
| 30 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |