Example sentences of "it have [be] [vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been confirmed in an extra-statutory concession ( dated 19.12.88 ) that the taxation position is treated by the Inland Revenue as the same where payments are made to the purchaser under an indemnity in the sale agreement . |
| 2 | This is a decently boring contest in which Mr Gould will sensibly make some points of principle and Mr Smith will be elected , but already it has been turned into an eisteddfod of exegesis . |
| 3 | In this case , it has been fitted to an HMV Gramophone ; it controls the rotational speed of the disc so it runs slowly when the soundbox is at the outside edge , and allows the record to speed up towards the inner radius . |
| 4 | It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know . |
| 5 | It has been confined to an interpretation of the specific regulations . |
| 6 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 7 | Another powerful boat , it has been designed with an optional asymmetric spinnaker so that the bowsprit is there when the training need arises . |
| 8 | It has been identified as an aetiological agent in cervical cancers , and recently , in colonic neoplasms . |
| 9 | The perceived value of fine work by established makers is rising : one piece remains on exhibition although sold — it has been bought as an investment . |
| 10 | It has been produced in an edition of 980 . |
| 11 | It had been damaged in an accident at the locomotive works where he had been employed in his youth . |
| 12 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 13 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 14 | The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear . |
| 15 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 16 | Although it had been converted into an hotel , it had n't lost its atmosphere , was n't at all touristy . |
| 17 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 18 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 19 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 20 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 21 | It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling , then a subaltern in the Scots Guards . |
| 22 | On inquiring about the matter , I was told that the health common services authority had decided to move to the bay because it had been told by an independent property consultancy that it was a much better choice of location than anywhere else . |
| 23 | When they arrived home , Liz quickly wrote to the curator of the castle 's museum to ask for a pattern of the dress , only to be told that it had been copied from an 1898 issue of the London Illustrated News . |
| 24 | He refused to elaborate on his message except to confirm that it fell within the framework of UN Security Council resolutions , and that it had been delivered to an Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister , Sa'adoun Hammadi , who had visited Tehran on Feb. 1-3 . |
| 25 | it had been designed by an architect who was a follower of the new brutalism in architecture for which a police building gave full scope . |
| 26 | It had been described as an exclusive enclave for the rich and privileged , an escapist 's paradise , a tropical slice of heaven on earth … and so the praise went on . |
| 27 | It had been backed into an opening between the trees . |
| 28 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 29 | The remarkably well-preserved Dark Age monastery at San Vincenzo and the villages associated with it have been investigated to an extent never hitherto possible . |
| 30 | But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore . |