Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun sg] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm inclined to believe that this probably happened after the guitar left the Hamer factory ; any quality control worth its salt would have picked it up , otherwise . |
| 2 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 3 | The party with education at the top of its agenda will have to be more on its toes than that . |
| 4 | It is a savage and immensely powerful piece of sculpture , reminding one that Christianity is not a religion of sweetness and light and that much of its appeal must have lain in its very primitivism . |
| 5 | The missing two-thirds of its energy must have come from elastic tension stored in its huge tendons , tail and lower back . |
| 6 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 7 | For some , the schizoid position with its pain would have to be considered in order to rediscover how to feel . |
| 8 | Well , a few weeks ago , on your behalf , I attended the National Policy Forum of the Labour Party and we made it quite plain that the Labour government in its manifesto will have full employment rights for all from day one , so no one can abuse workers ' rights . |
| 9 | Certainly the industry must have encouraged the growth of local villas and houses exploiting the potential of their agricultural resources to the full , while the town in its turn would have provided a workforce and essential access to the necessary marketing facilities . |
| 10 | Intel said the decision overturning the jury verdict in its favour will have little impact on the 80486 market . |
| 11 | Intel said the decision overturning the jury verdict in its favour will have little impact on the 80486 market . |
| 12 | Normally , for an exchange to be arbitrary or capricious , it would have to behave in a way which no reasonable person in its position would have done . |
| 13 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 14 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |
| 15 | The Directive is legally binding and all professionals whose qualifications fall within its scope will have the right to have their qualifications recognised . |
| 16 | Any cuckoo nestling that lost its hold , even momentarily , over its host would have died as a result . |
| 17 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 18 | In its sympathy for the families of the victims , the public was inclined to forget that any passenger aircraft with the Stars and Stripes on its tail would have served as a target as well as another . |