Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , so long as the net inflow of foreign exchange deposits is positive , as it has been up to now , there is no net withdrawal of funds from the National Bank . |
| 2 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 3 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 4 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 5 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 6 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 7 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 8 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 9 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 10 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 11 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 12 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 13 | It has been so throughout India 's recorded history . |
| 14 | The sovereign power inherent in the British Crown , as exercised through Council and through Parliament , derives not from a treaty or document or compact , but from prescription , from the fact that it has been so from time immemorial — that it is immanent in the nation itself . |
| 15 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 16 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 17 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 18 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 19 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 20 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 21 | Peaceful , mellow and noble , in the shade of a great sycamore , it is the sort of house that feels as though it has been there from time immemorial . |
| 22 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 23 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 24 | SunSoft claims many SCO Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature amongst the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up on the operating system . |
| 25 | SunSoft claims many Santa Cruz Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature among the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up under the operating system . |
| 26 | Caine turns down scripts if it means being away from home for too long |
| 27 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 29 | It 's been here since the late 19th century . |
| 30 | It 's been here since 1925 , but in September it 'll close . |