Example sentences of "[conj] it have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 He chose to stay , although it has n't always worked out well .
2 The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning .
3 Although it has not yet achieved an acceptability on a par with headhunting in America , it has now established a recognised niche in British business , and is thrusting deeper into the corporate jungle .
4 That threat has now diminished , although it has not totally disappeared .
5 The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land .
6 She had been so engrossed in Martha 's life that it had not even crossed her mind that she ( Maxine ) should be frightened of that great expanse of water .
7 Dedicated , in broad terms , to the regeneration of national pride and honour through strength — the notion that it had never perceptibly degenerated was overlooked — the CSA would specifically oppose the Nantucket Treaty root and branch , and demand its repudiation in Congress .
8 ‘ Crime of Love ’ is Trestle 's latest production , so new that it has not yet started rehearsals as we go to press .
9 His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson .
10 So they choose to contend that it has not really happened : and in so choosing raise a timely question about the nature of political belief .
11 It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews .
12 Men will say ‘ I love you ’ to get women into bed with them ; women will say ‘ I love you ’ to get men into marriage with them ; both will say ‘ I love you ’ to keep fear at bay , to convince themselves of the deed by the word , to assure themselves that the promised condition has arrived , to deceive themselves that it has n't yet gone away .
13 The UK phone company reports that it has also successfully tested wireless access to its messaging service via RAM Mobile Data 's national network .
14 Indeed , there is so much dissatisfaction with that union from within the prison service that another union , the Prison Service Union , is being set up and I understand that it has so far received 1,000 pledges from prospective members .
15 Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered .
16 This may be viewed as an empiricist attitude but , according to William James , pragmatism represents empiricism ‘ both in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed ’ .
17 Indeed , the whole issue of how and why employers ( and trade unions ) formulate policy towards the employment of older workers requires much more detailed investigation than it has so far received , and it is an area in which economic analysis may prove to be more fruitful than radical political theory .
18 Surely Somalia deserves more assistance from the international community than it has so far had ?
19 He was more upset at having caused this worry to Lachlan than at the near-strangling ; and it had n't once occurred to him to draw his dirk to save himself .
20 Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century .
21 And it 's probably actually got an abscess in there , which is why it 's so swollen on the top , sides and at the bottom .
22 And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo .
23 O'Neill said : ‘ It 's bloody awful for everyone associated with the horse and it has n't really sunk in yet .
24 President Bush took a considerable gamble with this invasion , and it has not yet paid off .
25 On the other hand , such bodies are , of course , acting to further the public interest , and it has not always proved easy to strike the right balance between independence and public accountability .
26 He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list .
27 According to a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers , the rat population increased by 20 per cent in a single year , 1988–89 , and it has almost certainly rocketed since .
28 But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future .
29 His attention returns to literature ( if it had ever really left it ) and to the role of the self in relation to discursive contexts .
30 Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer
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