Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 2 | In The Times Higher Education Supplement David Hencke reported that many college and polytechnic directors believed that universities ‘ are relaxing their validation standards to enable former colleges of education to start new arts and science degrees ’ , and quoted Edwin Kerr as being confident that colleges succeeding with CNAA validation would consider it to have been worthwhile . |
| 3 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 4 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 5 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 6 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 7 | The company says it has been able to generate high levels of repeat income from long term contracts in the financial services area and is keen to collaborate with other suppliers to expand its service and product range . |
| 8 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 9 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |
| 10 | Severn Trent says it 's been aware of the problem , but the money was never available to carry out the upgrading . |
| 11 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 12 | Now that it was happening it seemed it had been inevitable from the start . |
| 13 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 14 | Yeah well I would of thought it 'd been nice , been nice to have |
| 15 | With hindsight she could see it had been unwise , especially in view of the family history of heart disease . |
| 16 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 17 | I hear it 's been bad at the Front . ’ |
| 18 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 19 | I 'm not saying it has been easy . |
| 20 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 21 | ‘ The way I understand it firms are obliged to take on disabled men from the war . ‘ |
| 22 | In areas with long nursery waiting lists it has been usual for governors to establish admission panels drawn from their own members . |
| 23 | When her father died it had been necessary for her to do some kind of work and the training in librarianship had seemed the most suitable . |
| 24 | ‘ Because you were so vulnerable , I felt it had been unfair of me to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 25 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 26 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 27 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |
| 28 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 29 | The fact that three quarters of those prescribed medication thought it to have been very or fairly effective may be thought to vindicate this as a first line approach , but side effects from anticholinergic drugs are common , and important diagnoses ( for example , a neurological condition ) may be delayed . |
| 30 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |