Example sentences of "[adv] it have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 2 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 3 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 4 | He 'd been married , of course , and in those days perhaps it had been frowned upon for a married man to be friendly with a young girl , but that 's all it had been — friendship . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 6 | Erm so it had been thought about quite seriously . |
| 7 | In doing so it has been heaped with opprobrium by other sections of the left ( see Kettle , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | So it 's been sheltered from the wind . |
| 9 | The gas is trapped in well-insulated houses and is produced by the decay of uranium in rocks and soil ; thus it has been measured at high concentrations in parts of Cornwall and Devon . |
| 10 | Though far too small for me , the bike had been saved to be passed on to Cymbeline ; somehow it had been overlooked in the purge . |
| 11 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 12 | You will be obliged to progress a case until you have formed a view on liability whether or not it has been vetted by the work provider . |
| 13 | This is a decently boring contest in which Mr Gould will sensibly make some points of principle and Mr Smith will be elected , but already it has been turned into an eisteddfod of exegesis . |
| 14 | Already it has been considered by groups within the Healthcare Financial Management Association ( Webb , 1989 ) , and at some length by Prowle , Jones & Shaw ( 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Meanwhile it had been fitted to many warships and liners , including the Scandinavian and Lusitania . |
| 16 | Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 . |
| 17 | Now it had been joined by several cars and a coach was disgorging a gaggle of tourists . |
| 18 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 19 | Up to now it has been run as a cost centre rather than a profit maker , but the Broadcasting Act specified change . |
| 20 | Now it has been replaced by … |
| 21 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 22 | Now it has been made into a four-part series called The Life And Times Of Henry Pratt by Granada . |
| 23 | Now it has been made into a film by British scriptwriter Harold Pinter and German director Volker Schlondorff . |
| 24 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 25 | Now it has been acquired by US-based FMC corporation and its businesses will complement FMC 's existing line of phosphate esters made in West Virginia . |
| 26 | Now it 's been extended to Waitrose , which are a large chain in the south of England . |
| 27 | Now it 's been re-enacted by enthusiasts from this country and abroad . |
| 28 | Now it 's been noticed by London Transport Advertising too and banned from 600 sites on the District Line . |
| 29 | Now it 's been found in a river half a mile from her home . |
| 30 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |