Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 2 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been a good and very practical learning experience for the class . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It has been a bad and black week . |
| 5 | But it has been a busy and peripatetic decade for Taylor , Heglund and their co-workers . |
| 6 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |
| 7 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 8 | It 's been a difficult and painful week for Ron Letts ' family . |
| 9 | But it 's been a slow and confusing process . |
| 10 | It 's been a tough and bruising campaign , with the backgrounds of both candidates coming under intense scrutiny . |
| 11 | It 's been a wonderful and rewarding 14 years generating an ever-widening circle of friends and customers , and I ca n't recall a refund . |
| 12 | Because a lifetime of debauchery somehow loses its romantic kudos once it winds down to a respectable job and keep-fit classes ; it stops being a biopic and starts sounding like a how-I-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person telefilm . |