Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately arbitrators and the courts have recognized that it is often not possible in a complicated situation to relate a particular cause to effect : see the remarks of Mr Justice Donaldson in 7 Crosby & Sons v. Portland UDC [ 1976 ] 5 BLR 121 .
2 These are businesses which have grown naturally because of a need that we have recognized and it is reasonable to suppose that if we have done the job right , and tested the external market to see if such services are not available to our satisfaction elsewhere , we would start with some sort of competitive edge .
3 While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem .
4 BOOZE AND THE BALANCE SHEET Excessive drinking costs companies dear , and many have realised that it 's time to do something about it
5 Eth ethically the Government have cleared it and in fact have forecast that it 's going to be the one .
6 Neo-classical economists have stressed that it is the increase in the real money supply and the real balance effect which will lead to an expansion of aggregate demand and so eliminate ERW unemployment .
7 Some councillors have protested that it 's unfair .
8 In itself there is little harm in this , but I have noticed that it is very easy for the quest to become obsessional .
9 This war has another side : I have said that it is a miserable , dirty and very bloody war , but it is also a meaningless war .
10 Victims have said that it is a way of acknowledging that they are worth something — a common psychological problem after being a victim of a serious crime , is a feeling of worthlessness .
11 On a number of occasions you have said that it is your belief that any initiatives being announced by the Government by way of statement are best announced to the House .
12 Will the Secretary of State accept that there are those of us who have never made the point that trust status is about opting out of the national health service , but have said that it is about local accountability and the views of local people ?
13 The prison governors have said that it is too draconian , and the Prison Officers Association has expressed the view that it is an unnecessary knee-jerk reaction to a deeply serious problem .
14 Er whereas the County Council have sought to re to er keep vacancies constant , we have said that it is reasonable to seek to plan to keep second homes etcetera as a constant number but what I would term normal vacancies , can be reasonably be expected to go up to maintain the same proportion .
15 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
16 In the case of a small pay cut , for example , we have seen that it is sometimes safer to sue for the amount that you have lost , rather than give up your job .
17 We have seen that it is communication with another person who is experiencing some kind of emotional trouble , or acting under stress in some way .
18 We have seen that it is practically inconceivable , even on the strongest reading of Gallagher , that the House of Lords could have been persuaded to reopen the case .
19 In this section we have seen that it is usually possible to reduce the number of accesses to synonyms by loading first the records most frequently accessed .
20 Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) .
21 We have seen that it is sometimes possible to sort out the observed vibrational bands according to their symmetry , and that group frequency and similar empirical arguments may make it reasonable to associate bands with particular vibrational modes .
22 I have argued that it is the teachers ' task to mediate through everyday pedagogic activity : it is their exercise of pragmatism which should achieve the double objective of learning outcome and professional development .
23 Critics , however , have argued that it is difficult to envisage any conception of a state which does not incorporate a purposive quality .
24 Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight .
25 This notion , that gender inequality is thus almost irrelevant for mainstream sociological theorizing , has met with an onslaught of criticism by writers who have argued that it is inappropriate to take the family as the unit of analysis in such a way .
26 The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real .
27 Because of this , some social scientists have argued that it is those people with uncertain personal identities who are attracted by such ideological groups .
28 Whether any alternative leadership could have gone further in this direction in the 1960s and 1970s is an open question , but I have argued that it is not useful to conceive of the record so far as merely one of ‘ betrayal ’ .
29 For example , some sociologists have argued that it is no longer correct to regard Western industrial society , particularly the USA , as being stratified in terms of a class system .
30 However , there are good reasons for not limiting a discussion of language processing to sentences , since in many ways the sentence is not the most appropriate psychological unit — and , indeed , some authors have argued that it is not the most appropriate unit for linguistic analysis .
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