Example sentences of "it have [been] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Well , it just has not happened , and when they have decided on a theme , it has been so late at night that Ministers have not been told , ’ said one disgruntled insider .
2 Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past .
3 However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control .
4 But while the report has been detailed on closures and mergers , it has been less so on the specifics about how the shift to the community will be achieved .
5 The CME and SIMEX also obtained the exclusive licence to trade Nikkei stock index futures contracts outside Japan , but while this has been fairly successful on SIMEX , it has been less so in Chicago ( 881,000 contracts on SIMEX as against 61000 on the CME in 1990 ) .
6 Apart from its royal members , the number of Knights of the Garter is limited to twenty-four , and this restriction , coupled with the fact that since 1946 it has been once more in the personal gift of the monarch , makes its membership peculiarly exclusive .
7 For Julius , in particular , it had been completely out of character , that headlong dash into such an intense relationship .
8 It had been there right from the beginning , right from the night of the dog .
9 And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months
10 We 're gon na get em trained up in the garages before we actually launch , but they are able now to say they are approved installers so they will be getting all the stuff , everything in relation to it , I 've given em a list of the people involved in Nottinghamshire and it 's the launch is on the seventh March at West Bridgford , and basically the system is ready and up and running , thank the Lord after hard work by er Keith and us all at various times , but it 's been mainly down to Keith .
11 It 's been so long since … ‘
  Next page