Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 2 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
| 3 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
| 4 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 5 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 6 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 7 | THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker . |
| 8 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 9 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 10 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 11 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 12 | When would it have been approximately when he started this would you say ? |
| 13 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 14 | It had been just as he was leaving on a Sunday evening . |
| 15 | It had been well and truly earthed . |
| 16 | The work was less skilled than it had been formerly since no women made up a whole garment , but rather worked on one fragment of the process , for instance sewing up side-seams all day , every day . |
| 17 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 18 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 19 | In 1929–30 it had been less than 200,000 tons . ’ |
| 20 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 21 | It had been there but he had not seen it . |
| 22 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 23 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 24 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 25 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 26 | Even with side stitches taken out of work it had been more than my machine and yarn wanted to tackle . |
| 27 | It had been more than awkward . |
| 28 | It had been ever since he 'd dropped Hitch off . |
| 29 | It 's been downhill since those blokes who did n't play on Frankie Goes To Hollywood went . |
| 30 | It 's been there since before half past one I think . |