Example sentences of "it have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 2 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 3 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 4 | It has been better weather this year , if rather chilly at times . |
| 5 | 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours . |
| 6 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 7 | During the last nine years , it has been richer pensioners who have been the main beneficiaries of the real increase in the value of pensions . |
| 8 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been rough going . |
| 11 | It has been typical weather on Britain 's south coast this August . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry it has been rotten weather at home . |
| 13 | It has been practising rotation internally for a number of years . |
| 14 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 15 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 16 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 17 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 18 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 19 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 20 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 21 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 22 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 23 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 24 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 25 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 26 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 27 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 30 | 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 . |