Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] it have [be] " in BNC.

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1 If the work is commissioned by a PR consultant , the — copyright is his unless it has been arranged that it should be assigned to the client .
2 Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us .
3 A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body .
4 And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’
5 A month ago my bank informed me that it had been obliged to arrest £250 of my money to satisfy a court order obtained by sheriff officers .
6 So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see .
7 Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor .
8 One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ?
9 At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him .
10 He somehow managed to pound down to Kouklia on Chennaa , half by night and half by blazing day , and crossing the island was able to see for himself that it had been a more settled and prosperous year .
11 ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’
12 ‘ You ask me if it 's been tough .
13 There was a tendency for both to be referred to as the Wild White or Park cattle but there are noticeable differences between them and it has been firmly established , by cytogenetic and other tests , that the British White is no more closely related to the White Park than are other British breeds .
14 Just a quick post-script to my last message about tickets for the Sheff Wed game — I just managed to get through to the ticket office , and they said that all postal applications were sent back yesterday with a letter telling you that it 's been postponed , and to re-apply if you still want tickets .
15 Well as we approach the end of 1991 , I 'm sure I do n't need to remind you that it has been a very difficult year .
16 Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that .
17 What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified .
18 In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful .
19 because you cos it 's been by your face like , the back 's still wet .
20 He , he was a real friendly guy and like I say he never said cheerio before he went , but one day he just painted his aircraft up with the D-day landing signs which we did n't know at the time and the next day he was gone of course it was very much top secret that was but the town just emptied of all Americans it was like a ghost town after them but it had been previously .
21 Yeah , but , you 're mad getting worried to much , you know we had our green house all smashed up and everything and it 's been upsetting ,
22 The defendants were in breach of their statutory duty in failing to provide safety belts but advanced evidence to show that the plaintiff would not have worn one if it had been provided .
23 He put another one and it 's been on since then !
24 This subsector is recognized as another growing one and it has been further differentiated in recent years by the recognition of a specifically educational , volume travel market .
25 The term ‘ community ’ in this context meant something because it had been experienced as such .
26 ‘ Tell me , Uncle , what happens to everything after it 's been squashed down ? ’
27 But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home .
28 She 'd told herself that it had been self-respect , a dislike of casual sex , that had motivated her .
29 The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended .
30 It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 .
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