Example sentences of "it have [been] [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |
| 2 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 3 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 4 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 5 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 6 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 7 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |
| 8 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 9 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 10 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 11 | Moreover , it has been established for centuries that even where the threat of violence is less than this , consent will be negatived . |
| 12 | Because the land here is valuable most of it has been bought for shops and offices , many rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks . |
| 13 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 14 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 15 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 16 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 17 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 18 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 19 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 20 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 21 | It had been rented for generations from a local landowner . |
| 22 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 23 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 24 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 25 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 26 | It 's been condemned for years now . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been examined for fingerprints . |
| 28 | It 's been treated for burns but is expected to survive even without it 's mother . |
| 29 | It 's been used for centuries in the crafting of Buddhist religious statues and the grain is absolutely spectacular . |
| 30 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |