Example sentences of "[vb -s] it be " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 32 | Has it been tested ? |
| 33 | Why has it been extended so far beyond the large-scale political contexts where it was needed , to permeate modern ideas about choice and freedom ? |
| 34 | Has it been a pleasant experience ? |
| 35 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 36 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 37 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 38 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 39 | How long has it been ? |
| 40 | ‘ How falsifiable is it ? ’ and ‘ Has it been falsified ? ’ , it becomes more appropriate to ask , ‘ Is this newly proposed theory a viable replacement for the one it challenges ? ’ |
| 41 | But despite the fact that this series of photographs is considered in New York to be ‘ the perfect comeback to Jeff Koons ’ pornographic photo-paintings of himself and his wife having sex ’ ( Roberta Smith in the International Herald Tribune , their powerful reading as angered response does not come across as it should , nor has it been encouraged . |
| 42 | Poor honey , has it been awful ? " |
| 43 | How has it been ? ’ |
| 44 | Now , few can afford to discard the eighties equivalent of disposable fashion , the market stall tat from East End sweat shops , but for those with the readies to spend on real flash ( these are the ones who know that LV means Louis Vuitton as well as Luncheon Voucher ) never has it been more important to make a clear and expensive statement about the level of personal well-being and survival . |
| 45 | Why has it been included ? |
| 46 | Has it been noisy or not ? |
| 47 | er I mean , hoe successful has it been ? |
| 48 | Has it been much of a problem on the flats ? |
| 49 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
| 50 | Christ , how long has it been since I … ? |
| 51 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 52 | Has it been rewired and is the plumbing new ? |
| 53 | How long has it been there ? ’ |
| 54 | Has it been shown to any dentists ? " |
| 55 | How long has it been since I got a present from a girl ? |
| 56 | ‘ And how long has it been so far ? ’ |
| 57 | ‘ Has it been done long ? ’ |
| 58 | ‘ And has it been ? ’ |
| 59 | IT IS arguable that successive British Governments , although paying lip service from time to time to the notion of being able to change the institutions of the EEC ‘ from within ’ , have never in reality held out much hope of doing so ; rather , perhaps , has it been their true intent to use the institutions of the EEC to shape the policy of Europe in their own image . |
| 60 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |