Example sentences of "it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has always been ACET 's policy to work with and complement statutory and other voluntary organizations . |
| 2 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 3 | It has formal relations with the United Nations ( ECOSOC ) , UNESCO , the Council of Europe , the Organisation of American States , and the Organisation of African Unity . |
| 4 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 5 | We apologise sincerely for this clerical error , and regret the confusion and inconvenience it has caused . |
| 6 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 7 | However , it has yet to take concrete steps to stop atrocities , or bring their perpetrators to justice . |
| 8 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 9 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 10 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 11 | As art criticism , it has the merit of making a judgement , though description and interpretation may be meagre . |
| 12 | It has the added value of being firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of technique . |
| 13 | Surveys of painting , it has to be admitted , are more fallible in this respect , partly because of the relative simplicity of the means used . |
| 14 | Cultural history and theory , it has to be said , have very extensive agenda , and art criticism is perhaps only a sub-paragraph under a secondary heading . |
| 15 | Compared with what we find in Naipaul 's novel , however , Conrad 's Costaguana is a country of the mind : it has the air of having been built to accommodate his meanings . |
| 16 | But if it sometimes seems to be saying , on Salim 's behalf , that race or kinship wins , it is also the case that it is full of losers , that it has a lively feeling for the Africans of market and bush , and for their African troubles , and for the situation of Salim as someone evolved or emerged from a tribal narrowness to an experience of sexual love which is liberating and dramatic , and that it does justice to Metty 's last state , left behind in the dangerous town at the bend in the river . |
| 17 | It has people in it , with lives to live . |
| 18 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 19 | It has its predecessors in the romantic tradition — a tradition which includes the self-important single self nevertheless prone to dispersal and division , invasion and impersonation , which includes the victim and his alter ego . |
| 20 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 21 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 22 | Kapuscinski generalises : ‘ the degree of consciousness that drives one to demand justice or do something about obtaining it has n't yet been reached . ’ |
| 23 | It has the sui generis of art . |
| 24 | It has art 's power to translate , to abstract from the circumstances in which it originates . |
| 25 | It has the benefit of hindsight . |
| 26 | And it has evolved in contrast with character — that other , earlier product of the literary imagination — and with purpose and achievement . |
| 27 | Literary criticism is doing here what it often does : it has gone for the faults and , in so doing , inverted the truth . |
| 28 | It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence . |
| 29 | The measure expresses a mean between saving and lashing-out , and it has remained a feature of my own Scots-Irish domestic economy which I would bet is widespread in northern parts . |
| 30 | Vocational training for the actor as we know it has only existed in England for the last eighty years . |