Example sentences of "[adv] it have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 2 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 3 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 4 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 5 | Since then it 's been tough going . |
| 6 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 7 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 8 | Everywhere it has been high fashion to emphasise the importance of ‘ managing change ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed it has been proposed thatany increase in permeability in patients with inflammatory bowel disease results from polymorphonuclear transmigration through the intestinal mucosa . |
| 10 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |