Example sentences of "it has [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 2 | Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot . |
| 3 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 4 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 5 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |
| 6 | And they are threatening , because it is offensive and undermining to be told that the life one has led has merely been one of servility , that it has not been of truly ‘ human ’ value , that one has been a ‘ fembot ’ or a ‘ puppet ’ . |
| 7 | It has not been in the hobby quite that long , but has , I estimate , been around for well over 30 years , and was probably the first Apisto to be kept in captivity . |
| 8 | Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour . |
| 9 | This runs through an existing tunnel , but it has not been in operation since 1970 . |
| 10 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 11 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 12 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 13 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 14 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 15 | Well colleagues , he 's achieved a lot of things , but it has n't been in cooperation with local governments . |
| 16 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 17 | It has clearly been in hibernation as well as in opposition for the past 12 years . |
| 18 | Because of its size it has rarely been on view there this century . |
| 19 | This requires extended consideration as part of the subsequent discussion of the state , but it is not by any means dissociated from industrial culture , although it has frequently been in opposition to it . |
| 20 | Er we trust if the post is doubled in the way it has frequently been in recent years and indeed was in my case , the Chancellor of the Duchy in brackets also as the Chairman of the Conservative Party to maintain the dignitary of the magistracy to make sure that there is a firm balance amongst magistrates who are appointed . |
| 21 | That it has been ‘ the only game in town ’ , as many have argued , has not meant that it has necessarily been worth following , either from an Israeli or a Palestinian view . |
| 22 | Landscape painting is flourishing in Scotland today , artists resident , their subject matter possibly more valued than it has ever been with so much ‘ green ’ and wilderness awareness . |
| 23 | Each of these aspects of the learning environment will now be even more fully under the control of the school than it has ever been before and this is the challenge to leadership and management in every school . |
| 24 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |
| 25 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 26 | First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million . |
| 27 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 28 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 29 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 30 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |