Example sentences of "it have [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has regularly proved to be one of the most popular options . |
| 2 | As things have turned out it has n't proved to be a serious drawback so far ; and your mother , who has temporarily left home , is very happy for me . |
| 3 | Sadly , of course , it has n't proved to be the entire answer because the original FOND resource can only cope with the four basic stylistic variations ; Plain , Italic , Bold and Bold Italic . |
| 4 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 5 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 6 | ( If it appears to be too gross and simple to the library and information professional , I can assure you that it has already proved to be too complex for many busy executives to take the time to grasp ! ) |
| 7 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 8 | Formerly this time was known as " Supply Days " and was used to discuss the grant of supply to the Crown but it has long ceased to be confined to discussion of government spending and is instead used to criticise all aspects of government policy . |
| 9 | It has gradually come to be accepted that there are no clear lines dividing normal and abnormal behaviour , only several continua on which people might be placed that shade very gradually from the recognizably normal to the clearly disturbed . |
| 10 | IT HAS always tended to be assumed that governments , by and large , prefer things to go well . |
| 11 | Often ‘ community health ’ , ‘ public health ’ or ‘ community health medicine ’ , ( as it has recently decided to be called ) , deals with the community in the above manner , that of a doctor dealing with an individual : the doctor examines and prescribes , the patient listens and obeys . |
| 12 | The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all . |
| 13 | It had n't seemed to be worth while , not worth the hurt and upset . |
| 14 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 15 | But Lyn said quietly , " I wish it had n't had to be you who found her . " |
| 16 | It had often proven to be a disastrous , or at best weakening , influence upon the stability of the realm , as the inevitable feuds between factions arose from such divisions . |
| 17 | But again , it had always got to be from the Co-op , because it had come through mum you see , really and er sh I say she is eighty-two . |
| 18 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 19 | However , it had all seemed to be so very easy at first . |
| 20 | It 's just s'posed to be an argument but this will lead to up , like an argument of like them kind of buildings , are not like buildings , like tradition , to keep with the tradition . |
| 21 | O K , so , that 's really all I 've got to say about living assurance , of all the , it 's just got to be , a brilliant contract , and if you can afford it , you need it yourself . |
| 22 | Well she got a kind of raincoat , that , I do n't think it 's supposed to be maternity I think it 's just supposed to be |
| 23 | Yeah , I think it 's definitely got to be after the s in books , as it sounds as if there 's more than one of them . |
| 24 | Well it 's still got to be got rid of has n't it ? |
| 25 | That 's alright , play with it , there 's no point in saying anything to them Bev it 's now got to be proven and I say , if I can get it done and I can get it sent off , then they will point me in the right direction wo n't they ? |
| 26 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |
| 27 | There would be absolutely no u need to use an apostrophe because there 's no possession to follow it , it 's always got to be in that pattern of owner and possession , and if it 's one , then it 's before the s and if it 's more than one , it 's after the s . |
| 28 | it 's always got to be the dearest all the time |