Example sentences of "it has [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 2 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 3 | The difficulty in transferring contracts arises because the basic rule is that the vendor can not be excused from the burden of its contractual obligations by assigning or otherwise purporting to transfer to the purchaser the obligation to perform the duties it has undertaken under a particular contract . |
| 4 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 5 | Since 1973 , Ireland has received around £9 billion in EC funds — five times more than it has contributed to the community . |
| 6 | It has contributed to the decline in direct portfolio investment as opposed to indirect investment through tax exempt institutions . |
| 7 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 8 | It is questionable whether the real centre of economic power in this country is any longer an elected parliament or whether it has moved to the trade unions , large corporations , government departments , nationalised industries and government agencies . |
| 9 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 10 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 11 | Whilst the company is well known for its handmade clay plain tiles , this will be the first time it has ventured into the expanding machine-made clay plain tile market . |
| 12 | It has faded from the lips of those in the east , and the dying man on the right has his teeth bared and one eye half closed ; a kind of realism found in some late archaic and early classical vase-painting and sometimes in sculpture too . |
| 13 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 14 | This Tank Girl-style posse is only seven months old , but already it has grown beyond the founders ' wildest dreams . |
| 15 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 16 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 17 | Since then , it has grown into a major production unit in the carpet industry . |
| 18 | I think it has grown in the telling . |
| 19 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 20 | It has declared in the past that since British powers stations are able to meet targets for reducing the emissions that cause acid rain , research on the problem may no longer be a top priority . |
| 21 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 22 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 23 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 24 | A statement read : ‘ We now believe that the decision to employ John Birt other than as a staff member was a mistake and we deeply regret the dismay it has caused to the public and to BBC staff . |
| 25 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 26 | Moscow has increased the number of countries with which it has commercial dealings from four in 1960 to over twenty by the end of the 1970s , but the volume of trade has not exceeded $30 million with more than eight ( Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Peru , Bolivia , Mexico , Colombia and Nicaragua ) and it is only with Argentina , Brazil and Nicaragua that it has risen above the $100 million level . |
| 27 | Most of it is ‘ Convent'-ional and so far ‘ Nun ’ of it has gone off the books ! |
| 28 | THE DUKE of Westminster , said to be Britain 's richest man , has resigned from the Conservative Party , claiming it has gone off the rails . |
| 29 | In the next , only two-hundredths of a second later , it has gone through the release . |
| 30 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |