Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 4 | Perhaps it had been crazy , but loyalty to her aunt and uncle had made it impossible to save herself by telling the truth . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 8 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 9 | It 's only it 's been cheaper |
| 10 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 11 | So it has been necessary to fit a particularly long tiller in order to apply sufficient leverage . |
| 12 | Ah yes , this one 's been , we 've all been very organised on this , you know , so it 's been better than most , but , 'cos er you were , er you 've seen it and your listeners who 've seen it will know it 's a very complex play , so it 's made us get more disciplined to start with . |
| 13 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 14 | By 1829 , the year of Owen 's return from America , the organisation by John Doherty of workers in cotton spinning into his Grand National Union of the United Kingdom had marked an attempt to make trade union structure national , whereas hitherto it had been local . |
| 15 | Thus it has been possible to study the behaviour of the basin basement using a measure derived from the basement formations . |
| 16 | Thus it has been able to overcome the major hurdle of the possibility of losing top contacts and clients when it was set up on its own . |
| 17 | But , somehow it had been different , his normal feeling of elation and contempt had turned to panic . |
| 18 | But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact . |
| 19 | Meanwhile it has been necessary to delay most new grant announcements , and to achieve immediate savings elsewhere in other activities such as seminars and workshops and to freeze recruitment to the Council 's laboratories and to the Swindon office . |
| 20 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 21 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 22 | However , this model is simple enough for one to be able to make numerous predictions from it , and hence it has been easy to submit the model to experimental tests . |
| 23 | Probably it had been foolish to try to do so . |
| 24 | Until now it had been enough to produce smocks , nightdresses and long dresses in cotton for stores which would carry supplementary ranges by other manufacturers in different departments . |
| 25 | The new process could make carpet recycling possible on a major scale ; until now it has been laborious and expensive to separate out the component materials , which often include wool , nylon as well as latex . |
| 26 | Up until now it has been difficult to have the best of both worlds when it comes to running one of the more expensive 4x4 off-road vehicles . |
| 27 | EDS has stayed out of the public administration market in Italy because , ‘ up until now it 's been risky , ’ Ribas says , adding that ‘ until the system of favours [ bribes and kickbacks ] is brought under control , we 're more comfortable in the private sector . ’ |
| 28 | and then put it in , and it 's so far it 's been okay . |
| 29 | So far it has been calm , but now the wind is picking up and white-topped grey waves move across the fjord . |
| 30 | The EEC does offer grants to academics for research on approved projects ; but so far it has been unable to help with the major problems of the academic researchers , such as shortage of jobs , lack of mobility of researchers and declining funds for research . |