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

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1 But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) .
2 Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity .
3 While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression .
4 The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns .
5 All I can remember is that it had nothing to do with his feet .
6 The reason , I believe , is that it had in mind the defeat inflicted on the previous Conservative government over the Jonathan Aitken trial to do with Biafra .
7 There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Virgin 's boast is that it has grown organically and can continue to do so .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The snag is that it has no main bank behind it .
16 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 .
17 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
18 If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations .
27 The point about folklore is that it has to be interpreted .
28 ‘ But I think the most likely is that it has something to do with a girl . ’
29 The main problem for a private pilot is that it has the widest airspeed envelope available this side of the Harrier .
30 What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel .
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