Example sentences of "it has [vb pp] [adv] [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 In recent years it has become increasingly common for businesses buying and selling goods and services to seek to rely on standard terms of trading to govern their contracts .
2 In recent years , however , it has become increasingly common for businesses to use standard terms of purchase to govern transactions under which they acquire goods and services .
3 Although the Army and MI5 still retain some independent intelligence gathering capabilities in the province , the system is now largely centralised and works well — the IRA itself has admitted that one of the reasons it has exported a growing proportion of its violence to the continent and mainland Britain is because it has become increasingly risky for them to operate on home territory .
4 It includes structures that ( according to some observers ) have facilitated policy discontinuity — a discontinuity not incompatible with an empirical orientation to change — yet comprises such an interdependent complex of political bodies that it has become increasingly difficult for government to govern and to initiate radical and comprehensive change .
5 Due to social changes , women now play a more prominent role in most societies , and it has become more commonplace for women to be seen drinking .
6 It has become so important for the Americans to win .
7 It has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years .
8 It has done so much for us .
9 But since it has proved notoriously difficult for determinists to account for the emergence of new and revolutionary ideas , it would surely be wise of Althusser to show how he proposes to do it .
10 It has proved particularly useful for the management of high risk patients such as the medically unfit , frail and elderly in whom cholecystectomy is associated with mortality rates of 10% , or higher when carried out for acute complications .
11 In 1977 , the State of Oregon launched its famous resource conservation scheme , and it has proved highly popular for the state politicians in Oregon .
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