Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been proven in trials to be one of the most accurate machines of its kind , comparing well with laboratory standard equipment . |
| 2 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 3 | To date , it has been implemented by Ireland , the UK , Denmark , Portugal , Spain and Italy . |
| 4 | It has been noticed by others that the type of arguments which count against the Freudian type of verstehende psychology would also count against much sociology . |
| 5 | It has been created by Sister Frances Therese at the Carmelite convent , Darlington . |
| 6 | In some cases where it is geographically and numerically feasible this has been done within the Catholic sector e.g. Hounslow ; in other areas , normally where a Catholic school stands alone , it has been done in conjunction with State schools e.g. Corby . |
| 7 | It will be the first time the programme has ever been done outside London , and the first time it has been done in front of an audience . |
| 8 | It has been noted at Gartree that the better the governor , the more quickly he goes . |
| 9 | It has been noted by sociologists that in urban settings there is a ‘ norm of civil inattention ’ whereby unacquainted people typically refrain from approaching and addressing one another in public . |
| 10 | There can be little doubt , however , that geomorphology within physical geography needs to overcome its unnatural reluctance to become familiar with the principles underlying landscape processes because this will not necessarily prejudice the retention of a meso-scale approach and it has been achieved by sedimentology ( e.g. Allen , 1970 ) and by soil science . |
| 11 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 12 | As it has been seen in Buxtehude that drivers take about six months to change their driving style and attitude , further falls in emissions are possible as they increasingly adopt defensive driving in third gear as an appropriate style rather than the aggressive driving in second gear that characterises their responses on first encountering Tempo 30 zones . |
| 13 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 14 | It is a period which has not yet manifestly reached its climax ; and in the more recent past it has been characterised in Britain , as elsewhere , by a marked increase in the use of firearms . |
| 15 | It has been characterised by dictatorship , lack of respect for human rights and corruption . |
| 16 | It has been written for use on microcomputers with the IBM PC or PS/2 style keyboards , including the RM Nimbus and the Amstrad PC . |
| 17 | It has been written by Dr Iain G. Brown , as Assistant Keeper in the Library 's Manuscripts Division , who also researched the exhibition . |
| 18 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 19 | However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence . |
| 20 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 21 | It introduced entirely new aerodynamic principles to kiting which we shall describe under ‘ Foils ’ later , and because of its efficiency , it has been applied to power-kiting with some astonishing results , not least being measured speeds approaching 195km/h ( 120mph ) in horizontal flight . |
| 22 | But it is a useful conception ; and it has been applied by Statute to some public officers , such as certain Ministers and the Official Solicitor . |
| 23 | In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result . |
| 24 | Comprising some seventy paintings and forty works on paper , it has been selected by Christopher Green , Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and author of Cubism and Its Enemies , for which he was awarded the prestigious Mitchell Prize for Twentieth-Century Art in 1987 . |
| 25 | Comprising 111 paintings , fifteen works on paper , nine painted objects and three posthumous bronze sculptures based upon his compositions , it has been selected by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield and will be shown in three important American venues in the following twelve months : at the Metropolitan Museum , New York ( 9 September-22 November ) , at the Menil Foundation in Houston ( 15 December-21 February 1993 ) and at the Art Institute of Chicago ( 16 March-30 May 1993 ) . |
| 26 | One is the open cluster M11 , nicknamed the ‘ Wild Duck ’ because telescopically it has been likened to ducks in flight , and certainly it is fan-shaped ; it contains several hundreds of stars . |
| 27 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |
| 28 | It was the received wisdom in Edwardian Edinburgh printing offices , and it has been repeated by writers ever since , " that women first entered the trade as strike-breakers during the great print strike of 1872–3 in the city . |
| 29 | A preliminary meeting to see how Europeans feel about it has been called in Utrecht in Holland . |
| 30 | It has been observed in education in general that students respond to and learn from some techniques more than others . |