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

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1 My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time .
2 Erm , most of it grown , it 'd grown back and it has grown back funny
3 As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament .
4 The figure has now been recognised as a late fifteenth-century masterpiece and it has aroused some excitement in the art world , but there is still perplexity as to its author .
5 For this reason , the suggestion is made , and it has received some sympathy within the profession , that the audit partner , but not the firm , should rotate .
6 In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria .
7 A traffic survey is being carried out at Sappers Corner , an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Hartlepool , and it has raised hopes that improvement works may be carried out by Cleveland County Council .
8 One of the greatest difficulties Denis has faced over the years — and it has increased as the world has turned to harassing the smoker — has been how to keep awake through the after-dinner speeches without the benefit of a cigarette .
9 The work has been useful in 2 ways : firstly , it has yielded demonstrator programmes that can be used to convince more senior officers ; and it has increased the number of people available with some knowledge of expert systems .
10 I have had to relearn the game from square one and it has increased my knowledge and understanding .
11 Nevertheless , the sheer quantity of nitrate fertilizer that is applied to much farmland — and it has increased five times since the 1930s — ; creates problems from the surface run-off of rainwater which finds its way into drainage channels and ditches and eventually into streams and rivers .
12 And it has emerged that the same tape was also recorded at the home of Margaret Norgrove in Oxford several days earlier .
13 The Greeks have kept on reaching up for it , and it has kept on slipping through their fingers .
14 Above all , the collection came together , it seems to me , because one of the stories which women have learned and passed on concerns the experience of women artists , and it has created a common bond , transcending differences of medium , approach , age , or particular politics or sexuality .
15 And it has created a new job , that of quality assurance manager , to ensure that standards are maintained .
16 I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ .
17 Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures .
18 Britain has been governed by south-east England for the past 13 years , and it has become possible for London and the Home Counties to ignore some aspects of reality .
19 It is now 4 years since I gave my first remedy in an LM potency and it has become my preferred method of prescribing for a number of reasons 1 ) No decision has to be made on potency level i.e. whether 6 , 30 , 200 , etc is indicated .
20 Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker .
21 The competitors are now drawn from a wide area and it has become sport orientated .
22 Modern phenolic glued plywood is quite impermeable to water , in the sense that the veneers will not come apart when it is soaked , and it has become an important material in modern boatbuilding .
23 In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines .
24 Democracy is one of the most durable ideas in politics , and it has become , in the twentieth century , one of the most central .
25 Commentators still tend to remark on the informality of industrial tribunal procedure ( Farmer , 1974 ; Walker , 1985 ) , but the industrial tribunal 's rules of procedure are no longer informal , and it has become an adversarial forum ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) .
26 I 've smoked for over fifteen years , and it has become , it 's something to do with my hands and I think that 's what it is with me .
27 The judgment of the Exchequer Chamber was delivered by Blackburn J. and it has become a classical exposition of doctrine .
28 We received the mini bus on the 5th January 1988 , and it has become a tremendous asset to the project .
29 But as I argued earlier , the various attempts to construct a theory of nationalism have concentrated unduly on the twentieth century , and it has become apparent that a broader historical view needs to be taken if we are to develop an adequate scheme of explanation .
30 Sedimentologists have now found a wide variety of applications for CL , and it has become a very important tool for petrographic analysis .
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