Example sentences of "it [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1824 to 1839 , he was in charge of a penal colony on Moreton Bay , Queensland , and when the colony was made a free settlement in 1842 , the town and river on which it stands were called Brisbane in his honour . |
| 2 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 3 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 4 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 5 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 6 | It has been received wisdom that Scotland is fiercely opposed to the NHS reforms , especially to hospital trusts . |
| 7 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 8 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 9 | Reductivism and retributivism do not exhaust all the possible justifications for punishment , or the aims which it has been suggested punishment can rightly pursue . |
| 10 | It has been sliced longways to show the internal structure . |
| 11 | O. spectabilis is found on both sides of the North Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded from off Nova Scotia at the depth of 238 m , while in the east it has been found south of Iceland , Norway , SW . |
| 12 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 13 | The latter has also been identified in proliferating Schwann cells where it has been termed SCIP [ 9 ] . |
| 14 | The arrangements for auditing were reorganized by the Local Government Finance Act 1982 and the Audit Commission it established was given powers to undertake ‘ value for money ’ studies designed to help the efficiency of local authorities . |
| 15 | At a meeting soon afterwards , and having laid out its draft proposal for Newton , it had been given permission to go ahead with detailed planning although it did not offer the same safety provisions . |
| 16 | Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] . |
| 17 | The costs and risks involved indicated that it would have been very difficult to convince investors to invest in the generating company National Power if it had been responsible for the nuclear power stations , even though it had been given control of the majority of the generating capacity in order to compensate for this . |
| 18 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 19 | It had been decided sherry would be handled by McGee , supper by them both , port by McGee and coffee by them both . |
| 20 | as if it had been swallowed up . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish it had been done months ago but Stuart Pascoe felt it was unnecessary . |
| 22 | When it had been obtained program crashes occurred due to triggering of the consistency check traps . |
| 23 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had and it had been kept dark . |
| 25 | It had originally occupied a position at Sidi Bel Abbe s , but when the Legion left Algeria it had been dismantled stone by stone and brought to its present resting place at Aubagne . |
| 26 | To it had been hammered rolls of heavy-gauge chicken wire . |
| 27 | Springfield , however , had surprised Grant by replying that this would not be necessary as ‘ it had been taken care of . ’ |
| 28 | It was a fabled street , but for him it had been forbidden territory . |
| 29 | It had been suggested John McClacklan , owner of the scrap yard at the old swimming baths , Eldon , near Bishop Auckland , should increase the height of his perimeter wall . |
| 30 | It had been feared compensation would be less than £100,000 each , under the Carriage By Air Act . |