Example sentences of "it have in the " in BNC.

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1 Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past .
2 Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades .
3 Actually , once the fund has footed a bill , it has in the past successfully pursued a polluter through the courts .
4 Against the rest of the sector and the market , that looks a good deal less attractive than it has in the past .
5 It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker .
6 Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results .
14 Sun Microsystems Inc has signed a long-term lease for three buildings in Chelmsford , Massachusetts to consolidate the four existing offices it has in the state .
15 Actually , it has in the past . ’
16 For these reasons , the uncertainty about the scope of ‘ civil and commercial matters ’ does not have the serious implications it has in the context of the taking of evidence for use abroad .
17 In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated .
18 In the case of Skelton , it has in the past ten years experienced significant residential development .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past .
22 Agriculture has a more important role in the Northern Ireland economy than it has in the United Kingdom economy as a whole .
23 It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward .
24 While it may be exaggerating to say that the Scottish Office is anti-cycling , it has in the past done far less for us than the local authorities have , and despite changes of public opinion the Scottish Office still views cycling as a ( road safety ) problem instead of a solution to traffic congestion which is healthy ( cf. the BMA Report , ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ , 1992 ) , cheap , quick and pollution-free .
25 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 ) .
26 This would seem self-evident but it has in the past exercised the minds of many lawyers , in relation to the IMRO venture capital rules at least .
27 But I think we see that with the capital programme , that quite clearly you 're erm , having to take into account the fact that capital spend erm , can not be er maintained at the level it has in the past , and indeed I believe you are talking about this matter , er , later on this morning .
28 If our club can make a difference , and it has in the past , we will send a tape straightaway . ’
29 It had in the end been a spectacular departure ; Phoebe 's final fling with overpowering emotion .
30 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 .
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