Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.

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1 It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most .
2 How much it costs is n't important .
3 But if the breed has been chosen for its low-fat characteristics this wo n't happen , however organically it has been reared .
4 Apparently it 's been splashed all over the Standard this evening .
5 Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week .
6 Yeah , Buddhist religious group , but they , no they 've eh , apparently it 's been sold again now .
7 Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer .
8 Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections .
9 I do n't know how long it 's been on the bed , but it 's far too damp to sleep in .
10 Erm I said it was unfortunate that John took after my family and that was your cue to ask a bit more , I said we were having problems erm and also the business about Martin 's back , the tests , what problems , how long it 's been ongoing , what are the possible future problems arising from that .
11 ‘ I wonder how long it 's been since you visited that fine old building , Miss Williams !
12 It makes me wonder just how long it 's been going on , or if it was merely a way to get Calder out of an awkward situation . ’
13 No-one knows how long it has been there , high up in the courtyard of the Palazzo Segni Masetti , which now belongs largely to the Associazione Commercianti .
14 How long it has been , but really , you look just the same .
15 That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault .
16 But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme .
17 However widespread such an attitude may have been in popular piety ( and perhaps it has been widespread ) , and though it may be thinkable to a Latin American theologian today , it is hardly orthodox .
18 Perhaps it has been cast aside . ’
19 Or perhaps it 's been moved .
20 Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself .
21 So , I mean , all you do is get , I mean this and this has been down well it 's , obviously it 's been down since it opened , now I ca n't remember when Brewer actually opened
22 It 's only it 's been cheaper
23 In terms of actual support , I think for me personally it 's been within a gay men 's group .
24 I wa I wanted a a point that er respond er neighbourhood and the manager I spoke to said that the areas that were the case since er , de decentralisation because er people are er er in coming to neighbourhood offices and that of the of the managers arrange er er er aims or er either run in in two neighbourhoods er er I I feel personally it 's been very worthwhile because we were able to talk to the er , they they they were never able to go and and and they came to the er , the neighbourhood offices international conducive er er er or er er ah i i in areas they want to talk to , so I I , I personally would would like to see this continuing er for perhaps a it is n't the best value for money i i i it certainly far better for for for can come to their neighbour office Speak
25 Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage .
26 So it means being back here for five do we
27 So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness .
28 Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here .
29 In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 .
30 The constraint is satisfied implicitly , since x 1 + x 2 + x 3 > 0 for any feasible solution of P6 and so it has been dropped .
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