Example sentences of "it have [adv] been [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been our our position of this County Council Chairman that we will never seek to impose a solution on St Albans , we felt that it 's our duty to highlight the problems we to give them our expertise er as part of the leading part of our Authorities Committee in this country . |
| 2 | His letter was probably the saddest , most pathetic six paragraphs it has ever been my misfortune to read . |
| 3 | You are without exception the rudest man it has ever been my misfortune to share a restaurant with ; and I think I can speak for all the others present when I say that . ’ |
| 4 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 5 | Unlike the other mills powered by the Painswick Stream , there is no evidence to suggest that it has ever been anything but a corn mill , virtually all the others having been in the woollen cloth trade at some time . |
| 6 | Spokesman for Department of Environment Speaking personally , it has long been my view that these matters of food safety should be in the hands of a Minister of Consumer Affairs . |
| 7 | It has long been my view , and I have argued consistently , that the two applications should be considered together . |
| 8 | ‘ It has long been my opinion that you , my dear Shiona , are the most contemptible individual that I have ever encountered . ’ |
| 9 | It has long been our practice to avoid performing diagnostic dilatation and curettage in young women if possible . |
| 10 | You might feel a spontaneous urge to buy a particular present for a loved one and then find it has always been their secret wish . |
| 11 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 12 | Cash is available for Wilkinson to spend , and Silver added : ‘ It has always been our policy to back the manager if he feels the team needs strengthening , but we are not looking to sign players just for the sake of it . |
| 13 | " I gave Jim Mackenzie a job , because it has always been our policy to employ blacks , Indians , anyone . |
| 14 | ‘ The station is a grade two listed building and it has always been our policy to keep buildings of this age and sort in character while providing modern facilities people want . ’ |
| 15 | I understand , and it has always been our position , that we have between policy and resources and the Council meeting been willing to listen to proposals . |
| 16 | It has always been you , Gemini girl . |
| 17 | It has always been my belief that casuals were just beer-swilling animals with the intelligence of donkeys , but the letter you published was clearly written by someone who has enough intelligence to put his radically extremist views into practice and cause a lot of harm . |
| 18 | Adelaide and I were never blessed with children , but it has always been my dearest wish to have a family . ’ |
| 19 | It has always been my ‘ extremism ’ or my ‘ unpreparedness to compromise ’ , even though of course I have to compromise all the time . |
| 20 | It has always been my belief that a class of our type needs to review its rules from time to time so as not to become outdated . |
| 21 | It has always been my hope that he did n't trouble to bestir himself even when we had gone out of sight . |
| 22 | It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report . |
| 23 | It has never been my view , I must admit . |
| 24 | It had rarely been his style to use that instrument . |
| 25 | It had also been her first real brush with masculine anger and the effect frightened her . |
| 26 | It had n't really bothered Owen , it had just been something to try . |
| 27 | It had never been my home . |
| 28 | IT HAD long been my ambition to learn to fly , but I had discounted it as being too expensive and not very easy to start . |
| 29 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 30 | It had always been their view , they stated in their 1990 report , Credit and Debt ; the Consumer Interest , that consumers did not have the right to credit . |