Example sentences of "it have been [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 My beautiful villa — when it has been built I shall take my holidays there , no airport delays and no traffic jams , just taking tea with my little finger up and Dorothy Wordsworth on my lap .
2 It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event .
3 Erm it has been suggested I think Naomi 's saying on this side of the room that if there is an element of bad taste because the baby is chained up or whatever and it 's in er has had to be placed in an undignified or uncomfortable position in order to be photographed and Naomi 's question .
4 This tale is set in Antwerp , and the major difference between it and the Miller 's Tale is that the woman concerned is not a wife but a prostitute , who lives in Coperstraten ( apparently Merchant Street , although it has been suggested it should really be Coeperstraten , Cow Gate Street ) .
5 Although it has been electrofished I believe it 's not an efficient method of removing the smaller fish in the 4–5 oz bracket .
6 The transfer should , therefore , first be sent ( with a certified copy ) to HM Land Registry with a written request for its immediate return for adjudication purposes and an undertaking that as soon as it has been adjudicated it will be relodged .
7 Once it has been changed it will stay at its new value until set to another value .
8 But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme .
9 Wherever it has been tried it has manifestly failed either to produce prosperity or to protect human rights .
10 You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading .
11 It had been decided he should go to hospital for a checkup and during the journey he had felt a little shaky .
12 If it had been implemented they would have lost not only their control over the peasantry but also virtually all authority in provincial affairs .
13 ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’
14 I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could
15 When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole .
16 It was also said that if the bow should move of its own accord after it had been draped it was a bad omen .
17 It had been anticipated they would be operating mainly among the trees surrounding the estate , so the object was to go for maximum noise and shock effect while inflicting the least injuries possible .
18 It had been feared it would break through the three million barrier for the first time in six years .
19 Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs .
20 The sobering thought emerges here that , although it is contended that ‘ evil ’ did not exist before ‘ civilisation ’ , once it had been established it could nevertheless exist in a reversal of the civilising process right back to a restoration of the pre-life condition of the earth .
21 It 's been said it 's the most elegant , beautiful airplane ever designed .
22 It 's been said he 's got a bigger investment in bricks and mortar in the Pas de Calais than Hitler had .
23 Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see .
24 Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written .
25 Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them .
26 it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but
27 If it 's been located I 'll have to get back to London .
28 And you can see on the gable end just here , you know where it 's been heightened you can see the the old gable end
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