Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 2 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 3 | I mean , wha what I would like to go on and say is , that er , which the change of administration it has been necessary to er , adopt a different way of , of developing the budget , and I think you 're quite right to erm , pay credit to the effort of the er , budget review er , sub-committee . |
| 4 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 5 | It has been good to me and I 'm very grateful for everything it 's brought us . |
| 6 | At times it has been acrimonious to an extreme and very public . |
| 7 | But the company which makes it has been close to bankruptcy . |
| 8 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 9 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 10 | Most recently , however , it has been closest to Sun Microsystems on object-oriented technology , collaborating on the Distributed Objects Everywhere project . |
| 11 | By varying the combinations and proportions or the ingredients , and by mixing in other additives , it has been possible to ‘ tune ’ the physical properties of the various alloys to suit the purpose for which they are intended . |
| 12 | Try to establish the background of any dog , however , because if it has been aggressive to children , for example it may not be suitable for your circumstances . |
| 13 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 14 | But it has been deleterious to good decision-making on more than one occasion . |
| 15 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 16 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 17 | It has been open to the public since 1787 thanks to the efforts of Count Kinský , although its collections have not been added to since 1721 . |
| 18 | It has been open to the public for some 50 years . |
| 19 | It has been open to abuse , and indeed has been abused in the past by the Sheffield Mafia , which continues to exercise a covert control over British climbing media and administration out of all proportion to its collective record or ongoing contribution . |
| 20 | It has been fundamental to our own work here . |
| 21 | It has been fundamental to western consciousness . |
| 22 | Nor can it have been pleasing to the Poitevin nobles . |
| 23 | It had been apparent to Hank for some time that , in spite of repeating Grade 12 at school , he was likely to fail his exams again . |
| 24 | Anselm acquiesced in this explanation and waited for peace , but then , long after it had been apparent to others , it dawned on him that he must either do the job or give it up — preferably , so far as he was concerned , the latter . |
| 25 | It had been easy to be friends when she had n't felt this sudden urgent longing for him . |
| 26 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 28 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 29 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 30 | It had been hand-delivered to Kensington Palace and then carefully placed on top of all Diana 's other mail . |