Example sentences of "it have [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time . |
| 2 | Sometimes it has been persecution or suppression . |
| 3 | Brokers believe it has been oversold . |
| 4 | I have a wonderful coat ( so shiny that people think it has been boot polished ! ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Much of it has been guesswork up ‘ til now . ’ |
| 6 | As far as local government is concerned the extent and direction of change to which it has been subject since the 1960s are difficult to explain mainly in terms of the state itself . |
| 7 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 8 | Torture chamber for the first time , it has been purpose built at a cost of £300,000 . |
| 9 | Although in itself durable , polythene sheet could hardly be regarded as pleasing in the long term , except where it has been colour printed on commercial kites . |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ It has been mayhem and our main sale has n't even begun yet . ’ |
| 11 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
| 12 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 13 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 14 | Since 1965 it has been part of Darwin College . |
| 15 | IT has been part of the creation of so called post modernism , through its ability to destroy the meaning of time and space . |
| 16 | It has been generalist rather than specific , its programme being based upon each child 's interests and abilities ( rather than upon an external authority 's projection of what they ought to be ) . |
| 17 | Playing for your province does n't count , but it has been practice that if a player is banned at club level , he is n't considered for selection at that time . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , it has been assimilation rather than accommodation which has characterized interpretation in the domain of language pedagogy over recent years . |
| 19 | In Britain , it has been trade unions , rather than manufacturers , purchasers and governments , who have taken the initiative in discussing the ergonomic design and installation of VDUs . |
| 20 | It has been soul destroying for the bowlers . |
| 21 | DESPITE the current unrest at the Brandywell it has been business as usual for Derry City boss Roy Coyle . |
| 22 | Since the opening of the Torpoint turnpike , around 1820 , it has been Sheviock that now stands on the main thoroughfare . |
| 23 | However , a syndrome of this severity is not commonly reported in foals under natural conditions , probably because larval intake is continuous during grazing ; it has been show experimentally that foals may tolerate large numbers of larvae administered in small doses over a long period . |
| 24 | IT HAS been Labour 's good fortune in this election campaign that the electorate 's principal concern is the recession . |
| 25 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 26 | Whenever the yield has gone below 4 per cent before , it has been time to get out of the door and sell equities . ’ |
| 27 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 28 | First , when there has been confrontation , it has been religion that has yielded in the end . |
| 29 | For six weeks it has been pitch black . |
| 30 | If the wood is not a naturally durable one , make sure it has been pressure treated to resist rot — better quality ones are guaranteed for well over five years . |