Example sentences of "[verb] it have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 2 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 3 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 4 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 5 | Despite the criticism levelled at the public conscience test it has been used in a number of cases . |
| 6 | ‘ The importance of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 and the serious consequences of a failure to observe it have been remarked upon in a number of decisions of this court . |
| 7 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 8 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |
| 9 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose says it has been named as a defendant in a suit alleging breach of oral and written contract with respect to sums allegedly owed to Meridian Systems Inc , which provides sales representative and value-added reseller services ; Frame said the suit is without merit and it will be defended vigorously . |
| 10 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 11 | AH says it has been forced into a big cost-cutting exercise because of the effect of Petroleum Revenue Tax changes , announced in the last Budget . |
| 12 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 13 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 14 | However he stressed that the Irish Army does not believe it has been infiltrated by the IRA . |
| 15 | Yes , and certainly people who live inside it , because the book 's been sitting on my desk all week and I can see it 's been opened at places where people are either living or they know people living . |
| 16 | BRITISH Telecom complains it has been plagued in recent weeks with claims that chairman Iain Vallance is resigning . |
| 17 | The pine bedroom furniture display was such a success at trial stores it has been introduced as a permanent fixture at Wandsworth . |
| 18 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 19 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 20 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 21 | ‘ It was still tagged with notes saying it had been found round Stephen 's neck . ’ |
| 22 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 23 | Suppose it had been interfered with ? |
| 24 | We believe it had been buried in tin cans and hidden in walls |
| 25 | I believe it has been identified as the ‘ puffout ’ , a distance cousin of our old favourite , the ‘ puffin ’ . |
| 26 | I reckon it 's been brought into the front room because erm , if she shut that door for them , cos she shuts the animal in a , a room here there and bloody everywhere , it 's stopped again now ai n't it ? |
| 27 | They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles . |
| 28 | Section 12(5) provides : … a person who , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , takes a pedal cycle for his own or another 's use , or rides a pedal cycle knowing it to have been taken without such authority , shall … be liable … |
| 29 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
| 30 | My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once . |