Example sentences of "[conj] it has [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily .
2 ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 .
3 One of the interesting aspects of the executive search business is that it has enabled some people , who have not been truly successful at other careers they have undertaken , to be more than successful in executive search .
4 That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption .
5 The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out .
6 It will soon give a ‘ bleep ’ to let you know that it has added another con to your growing pile , another contribution to that bulging pocket that will soon hold your double helping of pocketmoney …
7 I 'm hoping that it has worked this time .
8 They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now .
9 The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable .
10 It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party .
11 In any event you should ensure that your dog poses no threat to human health by deworming it every six months once it has reached this age .
12 The forest also recycles nutrients and once it has gone all fertility goes with it .
13 The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author .
14 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
15 ‘ The National Grid does not own the land on which the pylons are to be built and it has to negotiate some form of agreement with the landowner , ’ he said .
16 Lucker and I spoke very little about it this morning , and it has remained that way .
17 And it has reached that point now .
18 The architect-designed classroom is proving popular with the four and five year olds who use it and it has provided more space for activities .
19 The agency can not start work on a claim until it has received these documents .
20 If it is set too low , then Offline will accomplish its workload using less ‘ portions ’ ie. it will calculate how many blocks can be stored and then continue until it has achieved that workload regardless of the 15 minute factor .
21 China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British .
22 But it has supplied this help without objection from Arab governments which , though alarmed at the prospect of Shia ascendancy in Iraq , want most of all to see Mr Hussein out .
23 But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows .
24 London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it .
25 But it has upset some shopkeepers whose deliveries have been disrupted , and disabled drivers who say they ca n't get into town .
26 The council is the plaintiff , but it has brought this action to protect the interests of the residents .
27 Being part of C&P has softened the blow because it has enabled many employees to switch to other growth areas of the chemicals business .
28 ‘ What I have found in the region is that because it has experienced more downturns than other parts of the UK it has a resilience to the dips the economy may take , ’ he said .
29 Rather , it is claimed that a culture is intellectually superior because it has acquired that technology .
30 The fact is that unless you have a reasonable understanding of what advertising can and can not achieve , you have absolutely no way of deciding what its role in a marketing programme is , what objectives should be set for it , and how to measure whether it has achieved those objectives .
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