Example sentences of "it have [adv] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 2 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 3 | It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way . |
| 4 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 5 | It has n't been touched for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday . |
| 7 | It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution . |
| 8 | It has also been shaped for ease of packaging , rubberised and refined , with the result that it is often quite tasteless . |
| 9 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |
| 10 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
| 11 | It was n't an act of vanity , or even a professional kind of analysis ; it was more with the unease of a person who picks up something familiar and finds that , at some unrealised point in the recent past , it has somehow been exchanged for the property of a stranger . |
| 12 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 13 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 14 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 15 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 16 | It has now been rescheduled for Sunday May 3 between 10.30am and 12.30pm and anyone interested is welcome to take part , admission will be free . |
| 17 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 18 | Although earning power is , in effect , a franchise , it has never been recognized for balance sheet purposes … , except in the limited extent of purchased goodwill . |
| 19 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 20 | It has recently been licensed for resale by Dublin-based Glockenspiel as part of its C++ Application Framework for Motif under the name CommonHelp . |
| 21 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 22 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 23 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 24 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 25 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 26 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 27 | On the other hand , he could not remember a time when it had not been taken for granted the Hall would one day be his own . |
| 28 | It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing . |
| 29 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately it had just been earmarked for housing . |