Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb -s] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some districts it has been impossible to make it available to everyone . |
| 2 | A company 's competitive position no longer ( solely ) depends on its internal capabilities ; it also depends on the type of relationships it has been able to establish with other firms and the scope of those relationships . |
| 3 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 4 | For several months it has been obvious that the oil market is , as Joseph Stanislaw of Cambridge Energy Research Associates puts it , long on crude . |
| 5 | Without such models it has been difficult to determine what the properties of these cortical areas should be . |
| 6 | Another strength of the initiative has been the sophisticated analyses it has been able to produce . |
| 7 | At some exceptional sites it has been necessary to reconstruct part of the site and the finds for display in order that they should be fully understood by visitors . |
| 8 | By analysing the evidence of many hoards it has been possible to establish the dating of the annual moneyers with a fair degree of accuracy , to within about five to ten years , although the process is by no means complete and new hoards continue to suggest revisions . |
| 9 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 10 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 11 | In recent years it has been possible to study the mechanisms involved in the regulation postprandial gall bladder motility in detail because of the development of sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for measurement of CCK and the availability of ultrasonography and cholescintigraphy as non-invasive methods to measure human gall bladder motility . |
| 12 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 13 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 14 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 15 | Yeah , since you rebooted these machines it 's been okay . |
| 16 | The British Museum acquired some of these pieces knowingly , as examples of modern fakes , and by examining the pieces in the scanning electron microscope ( see glossary ) using microanalysis and digital-mapping techniques it has been possible to plot the concentration of the cadmium over the soldered surfaces . |
| 17 | After a decade of severe staffing pressures it has been possible to achieve the objective of currency only by accepting reductions in the standard of the catalogue information provided to readers ( for example , the Library does not have the resources to supply subject information to reduced records acquired from the British Library ) , and by continuing not to assign much-needed additional staff resources for the essential work of the proper management of aspects of the Online Catalogue ( for example , authority control ) , in order to make consultation of the Catalogue easier for |
| 18 | It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes . |
| 19 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 20 | At other times it has been possible for an individual to bring foreign coins or bullion to the mint and receive it back as coinage ( minus a fee ) . |
| 21 | At times it has been acrimonious to an extreme and very public . |
| 22 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |
| 23 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 24 | Even so , with members of the cast having so many other commitments it 's been difficult to get everyone together . |
| 25 | Using specially arranged cognitive tasks it has been possible to show that this inhibition is weaker than average in psychotic individuals , otherwise ignored information being relatively more available for conscious processing . |
| 26 | On occasions it has been necessary for members to ‘ walk the pitch ’ and clear up before being able to play . |
| 27 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 28 | A happy side-effect of electronic coursework is that we found marking less of a chore : indeed in small doses it has been interesting . |