Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 2 | The actual date for it to come into force has yet to be announced by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 3 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 4 | Although it seems in actuality to have been common enough , the empty hearth or inadequate smoking fuel , like Alice Wilson 's ‘ damp coals , and half-green sticks ’ , is a poignant symbol in the novel , suggestive of every kind of deprivation . |
| 5 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 6 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |