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

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1 The appellant is supposed to have a right of reply , but this may have to be sacrificed if it has grown too late .
2 Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny
3 It has questioned how far they were in a position to ‘ smuggle in ’ alien dogmas and indoctrinate the masses , and how far they were responsible for the development of class consciousness among workers .
4 Finally , it has slowed down scientific research into complementary practices .
5 Nevertheless , the County Council believes it has gone as far as its possibly can to recognize and respond to the district 's problems , and that it can not justify moving any closer in reducing the gap between the recommended allocation of a hundred and thirty two hectares and the two hundred to two hundred and fifty hectares which are requested the District Council .
6 It has made physically handicapped people keen to stress that they are not mentally handicapped , not stupid .
7 Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ .
8 One of the principal archaeological sites in Southeast Asia , it has survived relatively intact , but age and nature have taken their toll .
9 Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife .
10 It claims it has given very similar results to patterns determined by stock price chartists , charlatans or alchemists depending on your viewpoint , whose work is very popular in Japan .
11 Starting with Shepard 's work in the late 1930s it has become increasingly normal to attribute the return flow to local rip currents .
12 It has become increasingly apparent that Thomson belonged to the American experimental tradition .
13 Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same .
14 Recently , it has become increasingly apparent this economic approach is limited .
15 Since then , it has become increasingly involved in social issues and its main objective is to motivate marginalised groups through audio visual productions and by organising training workshops in many parts of Indonesia .
16 It is also relevant to add that it has become increasingly easy to report matters to the police as a result of the spread of private telephones .
17 This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since .
18 Over the past few years , part of the Left in Britain has moved into a more considered view as to the limits of elements of the British constitution , at the same time as it has become increasingly alive to the merits of elements of that same constitution — especially in so far as they bear on the issues of democracy , the sovereignty of Parliament and the people , and civil liberties .
19 The teaching of geometry has also declined because it has become increasingly fashionable to focus on ‘ achievable objectives ’ : children work steadily through textbooks and workcards .
20 Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms .
21 It has become increasingly evident , however , that few institutions are content continuously to cross subsidise loss-making operations for the sake of customer relationships .
22 As our knowledge of both ancient and modern mountain belts has developed , it has become increasingly evident that not all the complexities observed can simply be explained by the collision of large continental blocks .
23 The Chancellor of the Exchequer thus announced in October 1989 that " it has become increasingly anomalous to chase our own tails in this way .
24 It has become increasingly common to remove the sex organs of both male and female domestic cats .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 It has become increasingly important to carefully compare interest rates and terms offered by the various lenders on their myriad of products , particularly while base rates are high and lenders are in fierce competition to attract the relatively few people willing to brave the stagnant property market .
29 However , it has become increasingly important , too , that borrowers should not be exploited unknowingly .
30 Filipinos have not demonstrated in the streets , but it has become increasingly clear they want Ferdinand Marcos , the former Philippine president who died in exile in Hawaii last week , to be allowed home for burial .
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