Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 2 | It has thus been customary for dung and bedding to be rotted for up to a year in a midden ( or field heap ) before spreading on the land . |
| 3 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 4 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 5 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 6 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 7 | It has always been hard for them to translate their music success into a sustained movie career . |
| 8 | It has always been common for students of literature to imitate their teachers ' styles , including in seemingly incidental respects . |
| 9 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 10 | It has always been difficult for mentally handicapped people to find employment when they leave school , but now the prospects are grim indeed . |
| 11 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
| 12 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 13 | As the Legal Aid scheme was given to the Law Society to administer in 1949 and it had also been responsible for the voluntary and statutory schemes in 1959 it was quite logical that the Law Society should also run the new advice scheme and that it should use the local and regional structure which already existed to administer the legal aid scheme . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth century it had still been possible for Turks to feel that the empire , inherently superior to the infidel states which threatened it , had no need to stoop to such devices ; but such an attitude was now no longer practicable . |
| 15 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 16 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 17 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 18 | ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately . |
| 19 | ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm . |
| 20 | and it 's only been open for what two or three years |
| 21 | Right , I think it 's always been time-tabled for two hours though |