Example sentences of "has [vb pp] it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll .
2 Bored with the custom of the bishop 's Easter letter , Hope has replaced it with a tabloid , just out .
3 Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch .
4 That has provided it with a group nucleus of up to 2,500 sows testing a minimum of six mainstream lines backed up by artificial insemination facilities with more than 100 boars .
5 Dr Schoenwetter has found it in a layer of soil 6,000 years old — younger than in Panama , but still older than in Mexico .
6 Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account .
7 At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation :
8 Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way .
9 This time a secretary answered , saying that as her employer ‘ has a large backlog of books to read , he found the addition of another one rather an embarrassment … he has passed it to a friend in a London hospital . ’
10 " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . "
11 Mount Stewart has enjoyed such a bumper summer season that the National Trust has extended it by a month , every day except Tuesday .
12 If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs .
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