Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time .
2 In the 143 years since it was played it has probably never been surpassed .
3 It has also always been the case that Democratic Unionists have been more willing than Official Unionists to try to prevent republican marches .
4 It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) .
5 It has also long been recognized that the same distinction occurs in attributive adjectives ( see , for instance , Jespersen , 1924 ) .
6 It has however always been fraught with difficulty ; the line between legality and correctness has always been hard to define .
7 While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) .
8 This decision , and its reasoning , is still being relied on in the growing number of tax-diversion cases that are currently coming before the inferior courts in England and Scotland , and it has most recently been affirmed as decisive by the High Court once more , in Boulton v.
9 Once this limit is reached , or the user wants to force the user to whom it has most recently been passed to accept the SPR , option 3.8.0 — Force User to Accept SPR must be used by a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege .
10 It is a revolution more obviously compared with the French than with any other revolution because of its stages of progression , even though it has so far been peaceful despite the anger .
11 The requirement is as real as any other in the construction industry , but it is interesting to note that take-up in the RICS , with its earlier commitment to obligatory CPD , has been higher than in other professions where it has so far been voluntary .
12 Using this approach , words gain their meanings through how they are used in context ( by iteration through a training set ) , such that each word in the lexicon implicitly represents all the language-use experiences in which it has so far been involved .
13 It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes .
14 Finally , it has so far been taken for granted that satisfaction of a social objective of efficient wealth creation is capable of legitimating the existence of corporate power .
15 In spite of promising prospects for the future , it has so far been a complementary course , to be undertaken in addition to the main course of study .
16 The last-mentioned included provisions against the acquisition of Hatchards , which landed the group with unwanted properties it has so far been unable to sell .
17 Does the Minister agree , therefore , that the concierge scheme introduced by Glasgow district council , involving controlled entry and video surveillance , is proving successful in the 80 blocks in which it has so far been operated ?
18 In tackling the grave problem of dilapidated and overcrowded property by reconditioning old houses and building new ones at low rents , the way was led , as it has so often been , by private individuals and voluntary associations .
19 It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions .
20 It has still not been restarted .
21 It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading .
22 The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) .
23 FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed .
24 Although the connection between these psychological ideas and sociological observations is highly suggestive , it has only occasionally been studied in the context of fertility and marriage ( see Coleman 1990 ) .
25 It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think .
26 It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more .
27 Instead , where disorder has occurred , it has more often been between the police and a faction or factions within the demonstration itself .
28 Except in the mountainous Balkans , this did not prove possible : and it has more recently been argued that resistance was ‘ seldom effective , sometimes stultifying , frequently dangerous , and almost always too costly ’ .
29 It has long since been turned into a pond and moat .
30 Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town .
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