Example sentences of "it [verb] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 2 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
| 3 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 4 | It has been on The New York Times best-seller list for thirty-seven weeks and on The Sunday Times of London list for twenty-eight weeks . |
| 5 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 6 | Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else . |
| 7 | The top two sheets are almost a summary , for all the staff that I never actually got sent out , but it has been to the staff consultative committee , who who gave it a nod . |
| 8 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 9 | A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day . |
| 10 | This is an agricultural area still , as it has been through the centuries , and most of the residents are employed in the district , with some commuting to Hull , the nearest city . |
| 11 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 12 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 13 | But I hope Graham will look at my bowling this winter in a different light to the way it has been in the past by England . |
| 14 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 16 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 17 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 18 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 19 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |
| 20 | It has been in the pipeline for a while , and Unix Labs now hopes to embrace the Common Open Software Environment 's planned developers ' conference . |
| 21 | so er , he goes off and he comes back with three samples then , well one of them , it has been in the window as well , but it 's a very definite diamondy shape |
| 22 | IT HAS BEEN in the air for months : Charles Saatchi , according to New York 's uniquely garrulous and paranoid clan of dealers and artists , is selling , and he is selling in a big way . |
| 23 | It has been in the College Library ever since as its greatest treasure . |
| 24 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 25 | It has been in the family for over 200 years . |
| 26 | The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in . |
| 27 | It has been in the forefront of the WCC 's conciliar process on Justice , Peace and Integrity of Creation . |
| 28 | It has been in the hands of the Maitland family for more than 400 years since its creation by John Maitland , Chancellor of Scotland , and later enlargement by the Duke of Lauderdale . |
| 29 | And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion . |
| 30 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |