Example sentences of "[subord] it have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 2 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 3 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 4 | UITF Consensus No 3 states in para 7 that ‘ the amount included in the consolidated profit and loss account in respect of the profit or loss on disposal of a previously acquired business , subsidiary or associated undertaking should be determined by including , if material , the attributable amount of purchased goodwill where it has previously been eliminated against reserves as a matter of accounting policy and has not previously been charged in the profit and loss account ’ . |
| 5 | Edward had passed it on and — although it had already been known about — was confirmed in the eyes of Winston 's men as somebody to trust . |
| 6 | Twelve residents live in 769 Washington Street , although it had originally been planned that there should be nine . |
| 7 | Although it had originally been derided by the other parties , it was now a local success story , backing businesses which employed a total of 2,500 people , and had gained all-party support . |
| 8 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 9 | The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones . |
| 10 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 11 | That Mr Nadir skipped Britain 's biggest-ever bail aboard a chartered aircraft bound for northern Cyprus — his native land , from which Britain has little hope of extraditing him — may not be the SFO 's fault , although it had apparently been tipped off . |
| 12 | A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places . |
| 13 | Although it has confidently been predicted by a number of high-ranking orthodox medical practitioners that any research in homoeopathy would rapidly discredit the whole subject , I have not found this to be the case . |
| 14 | This is also a problem for script recognition , although it has rarely been considered . |
| 15 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 16 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 17 | Although it has since been modified and greater attention paid to radio , it is still manifest in some of the Government 's actions in the field of mass communication . |
| 18 | [ The norm in England and Wales is three years to honours , and in Northern Ireland there is a mixture of three- and four-year courses ; although it has recently been claimed that as many as 40 per cent of all British university undergraduates are on courses lasting four or more years , in modern languages , medicine , engineering , architecture and some business subjects ( Institute of Physics 1988 ) . ] |
| 19 | A classical model was produced by Penck and Bruckner in 1909 and this involved four main glaciations although it has subsequently been appreciated that the sediments on which this four-fold sequence was based represented only a small proportion of the time span , and unconformities between each successive terrace probably conceal events lost to the record regionally or locally ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 20 | The idea of the unchanging east was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought and it seems that Marx accepted this view , although it has subsequently been shown to be misleading . |
| 21 | The 40ft long deep crack in the wall of Pershore Abbey 's south transept can still be clearly seen , although it 's now been filled with cement . |
| 22 | The first view would probably extend the law further than it has commonly been thought to go and would expose strikers having no immunity under trade union legislation to a very wide-ranging liability ; on the other hand it is not quite accurate to describe the plaintiffs in these two cases as merely ‘ ricochet ’ victims for it may be the effect of pressure on the public and customers which causes the employer to succumb to the strikers ' demands . |
| 23 | However , a paper read at the International Bar Asssociation meeting in the summer by the Spanish lawyer on the Thyssen Foundation 's board , Rodrigo Uria , and Richard Turnor , of the firm of Allen and Overy acting for Baron Thyssen , reveals that the Baron has been concerned to keep his options open : not a single work of art was sent into Spain until it had already been granted its export licence out of Spain . |
| 24 | ‘ We kept everything quiet until it had all been confirmed and there was no risk of a repeat of what happened last time . ’ |
| 25 | Because computer memory was prohibitively expensive and the machines terribly slow ( at least by today 's standards ) it was impossible for the compositor to see what was being typeset until it had all been processed . |
| 26 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 27 | It looked as if it had just been brought home by Susan from Blackpool . |
| 28 | The Z88 's line editor may then be used to edit the line as if it had just been typed in . |
| 29 | The line to be edited is now in the input buffer and may be edited as if it had just been typed in . |
| 30 | Now , if it had simply been given to the woman , Common Law would have said , ‘ We can pay no attention to this separate use . |