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

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1 The Government allowed users a price cap as a transitional measure , but it has run only for a year , until March 1991 .
2 Since the advent of a car-ferry system connecting Denmark , Norway , Shetland , Faroe and Iceland , it has become easier for me to take a vehicle over and , because the ferry terminus in Iceland is in one of the eastern fiords called Seyðisfjördur — see data capture sheet , this has given me the opportunity of exploring the north and east coast of Iceland in greater detail .
3 It has changed also for his parents .
4 It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 .
5 After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home .
6 People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already .
7 The ANC in turn vigorously denied these allegations and condemned the repressive rule of Gqozo , whom it had criticized already for imposing his supporters as headmen against the will of local communities .
8 Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse .
9 Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer .
10 that you normally play with erm I wonder if during the course of erm this discussion today if you feel erm that it 's gone well for you
11 so er but it 's stuck there for er weeks on end , you know
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