Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It used ter be nice when there was only 'orses in that yard . |
| 2 | In part it has also been due to a lack of suitable models of how the combination of attributes could take place . |
| 3 | But it has also been apparent from the very beginning of the tale , where Wilekin " began to love a married woman " that " love " in this text may mean nothing more than carnal desire . |
| 4 | It has also been adept at gaining support , for example for its electrification programme , by lobbying in parliament among MPs known to be interested in the rail sector , including the group of railway union-sponsored members . |
| 5 | It has also been slow in reacting to the threat posed by rival PC manufacturers shipping similar machines at lower prices . |
| 6 | It has also been willing to bargain over the release of French hostages held by Arab groups in the Lebanon even though the government pays lip-service to the official declarations that no such deals should be made . |
| 7 | Part of the reason for this lies with the decentralised nature of the party membership records but it has also been conventional political wisdom that Conservative party members play an insignificant role in the determination of the party 's policies . |
| 8 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 9 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 10 | And it has largely been unquestioned until recently in the work of most theorists of sex , from naturalists and Freudians to taxonomists like Alfred Kinsey ( in his concept of ‘ sexual outlet ’ ) and the research clinicians such as William Masters and Virginia Johnson ( in their descriptions of physiological responses ) . |
| 11 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 12 | It has thus been customary for dung and bedding to be rotted for up to a year in a midden ( or field heap ) before spreading on the land . |
| 13 | Once again we meet to debate and vote on this highly emotive subject and it has always almost , it has already been apparent that it is very emotional . |
| 14 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 15 | It has frequently been necessary to employ the deputising service in the evening ; we were not prepared to jeopardise our patients ' safety . |
| 16 | On the occasions I have returned it has usually been late afternoon . |
| 17 | We may , indeed we have not , always made ourselves popular in arguing for reform of humanitarian aid system but it has certainly been effective and we are never , but never , ignored . |
| 18 | Whilst the polymerase chain reaction now enables generation of large amounts of DNA , it has still been difficult to synthesize total cDNA from small numbers of cells in a form which can be amplified by PCR . |
| 19 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 20 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 21 | In relaying decisions to the member governments , it has only been able to recommend . |
| 22 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 23 | One investigator who has put weight on the relationship with affective , rather than schizophrenic , disorder is the American psychiatrist , Andreasen , whose work , also carried out within a partly genetics context , is of particular interest here because it has mainly been concerned with writers . |
| 24 | The bad news is for members in Northern Ireland and Great Britain where , because of the continuing climate of increasing claims being encountered by all insurance companies , it has unfortunately been necessary to increase the rates by an average of 23% for all new business and policies falling due for renewal on and after the 1st May next . |
| 25 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 26 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 27 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 28 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 29 | It has always been absent from Scotland and Ireland . |
| 30 | Early models , for example , made little attempt to show the dynamic forces at play between the elements , while it has always been necessary to question the basis of the model construction in order to avoid the perpetuation of a flawed assumption . |