Example sentences of "[subord] it has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN MID SEPTEMBER , 28XX class No.3822 returns to the Great Western Society from the West Somerset Railway where it has been on loan since March 19th this year . |
| 2 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 3 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 4 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 5 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 8 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 13 | The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in . |
| 14 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 15 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 16 | Unless the UN proved much tougher in Bosnia than it has been in Croatia , the Owen concession would have meant that , from Serb-held territories in Croatia through Serb-held territories in Bosnia to the border of Serbia itself , Serbs would remain in control , whatever the peace plan said . |
| 17 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 18 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 19 | An international panel of climate experts , chaired by Dr John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office , have warned that global temperatures will rise by 0.3C each decade , making the planet warmer than it has been in the past 10,000 years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 22 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 23 | Because it has been in reactors for so long , this sort of plutonium is not best-suited to nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 25 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 26 | This is an agricultural area still , as it has been through the centuries , and most of the residents are employed in the district , with some commuting to Hull , the nearest city . |
| 27 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 28 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 29 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 30 | When fellwalking becomes a passion as it has been for me and many others , the summits are regarded as old friends and memories are refreshed on each visit . |