Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 2 | Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally . |
| 3 | As a result it has been possible to provide donations to both RAFA and other local charitable causes until a major RAFA project in the area is identified . |
| 4 | As a result it has been a relatively simple matter to audit and evaluate the original decisions of two years ago . |
| 5 | He had not observed that , from the gale it had been , it had risen through level after level of violence to a power that no man living on Orkney had ever experienced or was to experience again . |
| 6 | In Prague 's second spring it has been superseded by the hustle and bustle of an emerging democracy — a society full of the good , the bad and the ugly . |
| 7 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 8 | In defence of fishing it has been alleged that , were it not for fishermen on our rivers , accidental or deliberate pollution would not be detected so quickly . |
| 9 | Vi looked again at the letter half-hidden behind the sepia vase on the kitchen mantel and wondered bitterly whose fault it had been . |
| 10 | The squash racquets , the Pope 's pronouncements , whose fault it had been their first night together , an afternoon really , but not much good in either case , the squash racquets again , the money spent on Grace . |
| 11 | In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio . |
| 12 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 13 | In the non-insulin-dependent diabetic it has been postulated that insulin may play a key role in the pathogenesis of elevated blood pressure . |
| 14 | DESPITE the current unrest at the Brandywell it has been business as usual for Derry City boss Roy Coyle . |
| 15 | In this study it has been shown by two independent methods that histamine increases the in vitro proliferation of the two gastric tumour cells ; MKN45 and MKN45G but not the two colorectal lines ; C170 and LoVo . |
| 16 | planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy . |
| 17 | One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features . |
| 18 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 19 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 20 | And in order to accommodate the general rule it has been deemed necessary to deprive certain compound words , like sèche-cheveux , of their plural endings when used in the singular . |
| 21 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 22 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 23 | By producing precisely controlled changes in the concentrations of nutrients or salts in the blood it has been possible to explore the role of factors like blood glucose level or cellular dehydration in eating and drinking ( LeMagnen 1985 ; Rolls and Rolls 1982 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 25 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 26 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 27 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 28 | It also obliges the outside world — meaning the West , and above all , the United States — to come to a decision about the military action it has been threatening . |
| 29 | I mean , wha what I would like to go on and say is , that er , which the change of administration it has been necessary to er , adopt a different way of , of developing the budget , and I think you 're quite right to erm , pay credit to the effort of the er , budget review er , sub-committee . |
| 30 | A. fragilis has been found on both sides of the Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded off Martha 's Vineyard north to the Davis Strait and W. Greenland at depths of 430–2640 m ; in the eastern side it has been recorded from the Faeroe Channel in 750 m . |