Example sentences of "it has [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has evidently met with considerable enthusiasm , but there has been initial resistance from some staff and parents who still favour a more academic approach to teaching and learning . |
| 32 | It has evidently come on since then . |
| 33 | The railway offers a scenic eight mile ride in a variety of coaches from Europe and Africa — it has astutely cornered the market in demonstrating foreign narrow-gauge rail travel . |
| 34 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 35 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 36 | While the latter 's name has been associated on many occasions with Dublin , to date it has not operated here . |
| 37 | So far it has not been put to the test in service . |
| 38 | But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution . |
| 39 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 40 | It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line . |
| 41 | For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains . |
| 42 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 43 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |
| 44 | It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth . |
| 45 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 46 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |
| 47 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 48 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 49 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 50 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 51 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 52 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 53 | It has not been slow to go to the press . |
| 54 | So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief . |
| 55 | President Bush took a considerable gamble with this invasion , and it has not yet paid off . |
| 56 | Since the 1950s this has been the nub of the strategic and commercial argument for developing fast reactors , and it has not changed . |
| 57 | It 's in this year 's draft accounts too , but we have people called auditors who are going to recognize this bill , and ask all sorts of boring questions like why it has not been paid , whether it is likely to be paid , and if so when . |
| 58 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 59 | Although the report was due in 1987 , it has not yet been presented . |
| 60 | It has not yet . |