Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it has been with other countries of immigration — the immigrants embraced a new nationality with , if the nationalist fictions are to be believed , unseemly eagerness . |
| 2 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 3 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 4 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 5 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 6 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 7 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 8 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 9 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 10 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 11 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 13 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 14 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 15 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 16 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 17 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 18 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 19 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |
| 20 | It 's been on several days recently . |
| 21 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |