Example sentences of "it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 2 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 3 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 4 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 5 | It has been said , by Dan Jacobson , that he ‘ aestheticises ’ his response to violence . |
| 6 | And it has been said that local authorities are not always very sympathetic to acting as a choice of career and sometimes obtaining a grant may be more difficult if a student has evidently changed his or her career tack . |
| 7 | From 1985 , it has been continually invoked by Paisley and Peter Robinson in their attempt to subvert the Anglo-Irish accord . |
| 8 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 9 | It has been argued that one could help to break that circle by integrating the school system ( Fraser 1974 ; Heskin 1980 ) . |
| 10 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 11 | From detailed descriptions of elements out of which it has been made . |
| 12 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 13 | Where interiors have survived , it has been through benign neglect . |
| 14 | Tourism income in Jordan ebbs and flows with the political mood of the Middle East , but it has been hit particularly hard by the most recent turmoil . |
| 15 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've examined some 13/0 and it has been good , yet I 've found some to have as low as 10.5% chrome content . |
| 17 | Poor cutlery will have tiny burrs inside the fork prongs where it has been stamped out of the sheet of metal . |
| 18 | It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins . |
| 19 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 20 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |
| 21 | It is normal practice to use a drogue or parachute to keep the cable under tension after it has been released from the glider . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that ‘ incipient ’ is an unfamiliar word , that associating the stall with a spin might get the student worried , and that to simplify things we should only talk about stalls and spins . |
| 23 | The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing . |
| 24 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 25 | Indeed insider accounts have largely consisted of bland reminiscences in the style of ‘ my greatest arrests and cases ’ and it has been left to investigative journalism to redress some unacceptable police activity , by calling attention to the limits and abuses of police authority , power , and accountability . |
| 26 | Here it has been delivered on the referee 's blind side |
| 27 | Further , although this hypothesis has not yet resulted in an account incorporating consciousness , it has been remarkably successful in explaining many other mental phenomena which earlier generations saw as necessarily mysterious and as evidence for some kind of duality . |
| 28 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 29 | Within the cochlea , for example , it has been shown that there are endings that respond preferentially to sounds of high rather than low pitch . |
| 30 | Since the work of S. S. Stevens in the 1930s and later , it has been recognized that , although the Weber-Fechner Law holds for many sorts of sensory experience , the exponent varies widely ; nevertheless , the principle of a quantitative correlation between external stimulus , neural activity and experienced sensation remains intact and now appears to be well-established . |