Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 2 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 3 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 4 | Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts . |
| 5 | It has been rough going . |
| 6 | It has been typical weather on Britain 's south coast this August . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry it has been rotten weather at home . |
| 8 | It has been practising rotation internally for a number of years . |
| 9 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 10 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 11 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 12 | It has been tough going , finding out things about myself which were buried deep but with ministry from the leaders and looking to God for answers I believe he has healed not only my drug problem but has cleansed me from sin so that I feel clean . |
| 13 | The idea that there is free trade in the EEC is in many key sectors of economic activity as misplaced as would be the suggestion that there is a free market in European agricultural products , another sector which it has been British policy to attempt to liberalise . |
| 14 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 15 | Since November , it has been spreading country-by-country through Europe in a wave which International intends to ride all the way to No 1 position in the market . |
| 16 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 17 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 18 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 19 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 20 | It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs . |
| 21 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |
| 22 | Indeed it has been proposed thatany increase in permeability in patients with inflammatory bowel disease results from polymorphonuclear transmigration through the intestinal mucosa . |
| 23 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 24 | The drink when it came was hot milk laced with whisky , and Robbie pulled a wry face . |
| 25 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |
| 26 | It 's an essential feature of 3i that the positions it takes are long term . |
| 27 | I said could it have been continuous rain ? |
| 28 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 29 | It had been frustrating hanging about the beach beneath Four Winds , watching Celia and the nursemaid spend what seemed to Freddie endless hours doing nothing much at all . |
| 30 | From that first introduction it had been all-out war . |