Example sentences of "be [conj] it has " in BNC.

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1 So , if the horse rears or puts its tongue over the bit , the chances are that it has been hurt in the mouth by a rider with bad hands .
2 But these days , with space at a premium , a room kept solely for dining is rare ; the chances are that it has to double as a work room , say for hobbies like model making , or as a quiet place where the family can get on with homework , studying or other paperwork .
3 But the most important flaw in the instruction has been that it has been too often divorced from the classroom itself and from the active involvement of the teacher .
4 According to Carl Chilley , principal business services consultant , the problem with distributed computing has been that it has encouraged the development of technology for technology 's sake , without real thought as to how to implement it effectively in a business environment .
5 This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics .
6 So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms .
7 I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you .
8 Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday .
9 Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced .
10 The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all .
11 The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength .
12 But if X + Y is an organic unity then the fact that it has 100 degrees of value may be because it has 90 degrees of value as a whole while Y has none .
13 The only significant difference that I have observed in the Best Bitter from Newcastle is that it has a much higher level of secondary fermentation in the cellar .
14 She is , admittedly , pregnant at the time , but the problem with this familiar literary symbol is that it has rather more inside it than the play does .
15 Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so .
16 But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’
17 One of the consequences of the RUC 's dual role is that it has features typical of most police forces and qualities special to it .
18 The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is .
19 One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century .
20 The snag is that it has no main bank behind it .
21 One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example .
22 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
23 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
24 I think one of the justifiable criticisms of Radio 3 — though not of my predecessor — is that it has come across as being too much about itself .
25 The problem with trying to reduce particulates is that it has a trade-off in higher nitrogen oxides ( NOx ) produced , which are frowned upon in environmental legislation in the U.S. and EC .
26 What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated .
27 The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier .
28 The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever .
29 My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible .
30 The great appeal of methylation as a means of shutting genes off is that it has a known mechanism for perpetuating itself during cell division and thus ensuring its own inheritance .
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