Example sentences of "it has [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 3 | Our teachers have mastered its methods with ease and it has been met with great success , interest and enthusiasm by our students . |
| 4 | Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’ |
| 5 | It has been demonstrated with experimental animals , and observed from babies kept in institutions ( like hospitals ) , that lack of sensory stimulation impairs intelligence . |
| 6 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
| 7 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 8 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 9 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 10 | Although Hampden Babylon will be distrusted by managers , administrators , footballers and agents , it has been written from inside football . |
| 11 | First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’ |
| 12 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 13 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 14 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 15 | MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange . |
| 16 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 17 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 18 | Balsa wood can also be smoked after it has been broken into little pieces , but some say it is even less rewarding than banana skins . |
| 19 | In the west from the West Indies 325–1036 m and as far north as the Labrador basin 198–2888 m ; in the east Atlantic it has been recorded from Southern Iceland , Rockall Trough , south to the Cape Verde Islands with a bathymetric range of 729–3200 m . |
| 20 | It is submitted that these conclusions are wholly unjustified ; it has been rejected by other United States courts and it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by the inclusion of Article 10(a) in a convention on service of process if that was not its subject-matter . |
| 21 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 22 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 23 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 24 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 25 | Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment . |
| 26 | BRITISH Telecom complains it has been plagued in recent weeks with claims that chairman Iain Vallance is resigning . |
| 27 | It has been fertilised by German blood and sweat , and owes its culture to Germans . |
| 28 | But the concept of mutual mate choice has remained untested experimentally , although it has been supported by recent modelling . |
| 29 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 30 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |