Example sentences of "[subord] it have in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is extremely unlikely that there will be any difficulty — at a general election the returns to the writs will have identified the winners and , nowadays , the oath is unlikely to present any problems , although it has in the past . |
| 2 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 4 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 5 | Against the rest of the sector and the market , that looks a good deal less attractive than it has in the past . |
| 6 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 7 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 8 | Mr. Walker : I know that the Hon. Gentleman will be delighted that since the valleys initiative was announced , unemployment in the valleys has fallen faster than it has in the rest of Wales . |
| 9 | Agriculture has a more important role in the Northern Ireland economy than it has in the United Kingdom economy as a whole . |
| 10 | The poet 's paternal grandmother , Rachel Phillips , was a native of Abertillery ( or Blaenau Gwent ) where a native Welsh tradition had survived , as it had in the Tredegar of her youth . |
| 11 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 12 | All animosity towards her husband dissolved and a spark of affection for him seemed to light up inside her , as it had in the old days . |
| 13 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 14 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 15 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 16 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 17 | Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past . |
| 18 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 19 | It is predicted that such developments will gain common ground in the elaboration of the GUI concept as it has in the computer-aided design world , but will quickly diversify in terms of the actual products which emerge . |
| 20 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 21 | These considerations hold out some hope that , while the problem of maintaining lead times will remain serious , it will remain a manageable problem , much as it has in the past . |
| 22 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 23 | We may also draw attention to the fact that it is possible logically , even if not biologically , to use old , with the same effect as it has in the phrase Charlie 's old school , in combination with the word mother ; the incongruity of the result should give us a very sharp view of the difference between the ordinary referential variation of adjectives used relativistically , and the semantic effect produced by the difference in type of relation at work in ( 33 ) and ( 34 ) . |