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

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1 The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base .
2 If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence .
3 The impact that it has on these people particularly as the Chair said , the retained service , can be quite profound because they , unlike the whole time firemen can be catapulted from being a joiner one minute into being a rescue operator the next minute .
4 By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal .
5 For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain .
6 If operation of the model can , to some degree , accurately represent the workings of the market then an individual company may be able to gain a deeper understanding of the relative position that it has in that market .
7 In discussing IT security with a number of organisations , particularly in relation to misuse , it was clear that , in general , the subject lacks the focus that it has in most of the Western World .
8 It is quoted in full : 6 Private residence exception : separated couples Where a married couple separate or are divorced and one partner ceases to occupy the matrimonial home and subsequently as part of a financial settlement disposes of the home , or an interest in it , to the other partner the home may be regarded for the purposes of Sections [ 222 to 224 of TCGA 1992 ] 101 to 103 as continuing to be a residence of the transferring partner from the date his or her occupation ceases until the date of transfer , provided that it has throughout this period been the other partner 's only or main residence .
9 But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years .
10 While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years .
11 The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation .
12 But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now .
13 The amalgamation of farms has gone much too far in Britain — much further than it has in any other European country .
14 Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom .
15 Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that …
16 The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications .
17 The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity .
18 As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town .
19 And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county .
20 The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations .
21 He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie .
22 Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic .
23 What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press .
24 This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe .
25 Despite that record , it is , of course , the case that unemployment has risen in this recession , as it has in all other recessions .
26 The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings .
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