Example sentences of "it has [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been enormous pressure on this , and it has all come from California . |
| 2 | Now it has all come back . |
| 3 | It has all come back ! ’ he said , holding her tightly in his arms . |
| 4 | It has all become so very clear , |
| 5 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 6 | Its ability to trickle along at three-figure revs is legendary , and it has that thumping great reserve of power if you need it . |
| 7 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 8 | It has little to do with the quality of his jokes or the televisual cut of his suiting , although adequate performance here is important . |
| 9 | It has little to do with local regional architecture . |
| 10 | However , there is plenty of evidence that many of the teachers whose working lives will be transformed by the introduction of LMS still think it has little to do with them . |
| 11 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |
| 12 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 13 | As a thrilling spectacle it has little to offer , but as a powerful totem it is almost unique in its place in European and western culture . |
| 14 | It sometimes happens that a business is well disposed to the idea of partnership but it feels it has little to offer ; just to offer time may be very helpful and can bring dividends for both the partners . |
| 15 | Apart from this it has little to recommend it , as it consists of a chain of dim stars extending from near the head of Cetus into the region south of the Square of Pegasus . |
| 16 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 17 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 18 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 19 | The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers . |
| 20 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 21 | It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes . |
| 22 | Referring to ‘ active citizenship ’ as defined by Douglas Hurd , he wrote : ‘ As a platitude it has much to commend it . |
| 23 | Despite my reservations about some aspects of the book , I do believe that it has much to commend it . |
| 24 | It has much to commend it . |
| 25 | On paper this hardly looks a version competitive with those listed above ; in the event it has much to offer , which only shows how dangerous preconceptions can be . |
| 26 | In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' . |
| 27 | It has much to tell us of how the local landscape has developed , and we can read the clues , if we know how to examine the building and its surroundings . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure if it has frilly paid the Ministry for the land . |
| 29 | Quorum says that it has some Echo Logic-type technology in development that it calls Autoport and might be interested in a cross-licensing deal — see page four . |
| 30 | It has this to say : |