Example sentences of "[conj] it has [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My argument here is not on that issue , since the focus of their attention was on Parliament and parliamentary procedure and I want to introduce the other side of reform into the debate — where it has received insufficient attention . |
| 2 | It not only represents the profession towards the Institutions of the EC where it has made significant contributions , but is also the focal point for the discussion of matters of common interest to the profession throughout Europe . |
| 3 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 4 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 5 | Despite its demise in Britain , the Red Poll ( like other red breeds ) is more appreciated overseas where it has proved tolerant of both cold and hot climates . |
| 6 | This facility should also be allowed where it has proved impossible to obtain original invoices . |
| 7 | They do no more than show that the legislature has not shrunk , where it has seemed appropriate , from interfering in a greater or lesser degree with the immunities grouped under the title of the right to silence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Pacific — and the oceans generally — became the main theatre of the movement 's direct actions , although it has challenged French airfield builders in Antarctica and climbed towering chimney-stacks to plant banners condemning acid rain . |
| 10 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 11 | It wishes to promote more private health schemes although it has made clear that the NHS will remain a largely state-financed service . |
| 12 | Three-quarters of Oxfordshire teachers think that it has achieved this . |
| 13 | It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources , while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports . |
| 14 | Quarrelling among siblings is so common that it has become accepted as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 15 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 16 | ‘ Over the last two months the bridge has been repeatedly vandalised to the extent that it has become necessary to replace all the remaining timbers with expanded metal panels , ’ he said . |
| 17 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 18 | A colourless gas with a faint tang , it can produce narcosis and even ( after a lengthy exposure at a concentration of 5 per cent or more ) unconsciousness and death , but it is as a greenhouse gas emitted in the course of producing man-made energy that it has become central to our end-of-century concerns . |
| 19 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |
| 20 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 21 | Subsequently , President Moi has consolidated his position in such a way that it has become difficult , if not impossible , for anyone to challenge his position by constitutional means . |
| 22 | One might imagine , for instance , that it has turned equitable estates and rights into legal estates and rights . |
| 23 | A complaint made by radical criminology against its conservative counterpart is that it has ignored upper-world crime : fraud , corporate crime and white-collar crime . |
| 24 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 25 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 26 | Keeping things that way would almost certainly mean that it has to remain independent . |
| 27 | It has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft stating that it has infringed two Stac patents . |
| 28 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 29 | Richardson , Texas-based Micrografx Inc warns that it has uncovered corporate funds mismanagement in its Japanese subsidiary Micrografx , KK which may result in a loss of $500,000 , and it will likely take a provision for the non-recurring loss in the fourth quarter ; the company further realigned its worldwide operations to respond to changes in software purchasing trends and the costs of marketing products and services and expects to report a loss for the fiscal . |
| 30 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |