Example sentences of "it have [been] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 2 | The fact that it has been necessary so many times over the years to attempt interventions to halt conflict and define stretches of frontier invites an explanation . |
| 3 | Secondly , it has been successful both in terms of increasing its obvious and immediate performance locally and nationally , and also in terms of preparing people for a wider involvement in partnership development in new and less obvious directions . |
| 4 | San Diego-based TeleSoft Inc says its TeleAda-Exec Ada-oriented real-time executive , is now available for MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 target systems : up to now , it has been available only for Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386 targets , but it now works in conjunction with the TeleGen2 Ada VAX-host/R3000-target Cross Development System . |
| 5 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 6 | by time I 'd of got to Stainforth , it 'd been nine o'clock ready for |
| 7 | ‘ But , ’ I said , ‘ would n't it have been simpler just to have snapped its neck ? ’ |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Would it have been strong enough ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And how could it have been important enough to justify half-a-dozen murders ? ’ |
| 10 | Er there must have been a at one time it , it had been six o'clock I think it was a quarter to six we finished . |
| 11 | It had been good enough in the bad old days , good enough for her mother before her , good enough , in all probability , for her grandmother too , if the secrets of that angelic white head were ever known . |
| 12 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 13 | How much ‘ Bomber ’ Harris would have appreciated Gulf War laser technology if it had been available then ! |
| 14 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 15 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |
| 16 | At the time it had been easy enough to make the pledge he had demanded , since she had n't been able to imagine a situation where she would ever want to attack anyone . |
| 17 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 18 | It had been higher still , probably some three or four days earlier , for it had bitten a great red hole in the shelving bank , like a long wound in the smooth turf , and left the traces of its attack in half-dried puddles of silky clay and a litter of sodden leaves and bushes . |
| 19 | The Bill thus becomes unopposed and proceeds as if it had been unopposed throughout . |
| 20 | It had been empty nearly two years . |
| 21 | It had been distressing enough , a month or so earlier , feeling obliged to let Alison know she was pregnant . |
| 22 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 23 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 24 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 25 | Their Lordships said that if it had been saleable only at a ‘ throw away ’ price , that would indicate that it was not of merchantable quality . |
| 26 | It had been fun once , when he was little . |
| 27 | It had been bad enough when it was only Papa and the newspapers . |
| 28 | It had been bad enough , this year that was just ending , without that . |
| 29 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |
| 30 | It had been bad enough that he thought she was interested before this had happened . |