Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 2 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 3 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 4 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 5 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 6 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
| 7 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 8 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
| 9 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 12 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
| 13 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 14 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 15 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 16 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 17 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 18 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 19 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 21 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 22 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 23 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 24 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 25 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 26 | It 's been going on for months |
| 27 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 28 | it 's been going on for |
| 29 | Like those cars , it 's been designed primarily for the track . |
| 30 | no it 's not , it 's been designed especially for it so erm he 's gon na get erm , I said what are you doing all this for I said , it 'll be easier to go and buy yourself a three wheeler |