Example sentences of "[pron] it have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 2 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 3 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 4 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 5 | By the end of October this had resulted in a 20 per cent devaluation of the lempira against the US dollar , to which it had been tied at a fixed exchange rate since October 1989 . |
| 6 | In December 1920 , during a US Senate Sub-Committee hearing in Washington , one of the cable companies publicly revealed the duress under which it had been placed by the British Government . |
| 7 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 8 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 9 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 10 | In his view , the letter should be used to show that the Board 's policy in the one county in which it had been implemented for at least two years was a misconceived , divisive one . |
| 11 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 12 | Entitled ‘ Towards a humane , democratic socialism ’ , the Declaration insisted , as Gorbachev had done , that the origins of Soviet difficulties were to be found , not in any deficiency of the socialist idea itself , but in the deformations to which it had been subjected in the past . |
| 13 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 14 | Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry . |
| 15 | It 's been made even more humiliating by the circumstances in which it 's been done like public rape . |
| 16 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 17 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 18 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 19 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 20 | This is the form in which it has been adopted in Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | The polymerase chain reaction has been unquestionably unique , as new techniques go , in the speed with which it has been embraced by non-experts in most specialties of the biological sciences , including medicine . |
| 22 | FYT is trans-denominational and has extensive international links through the Scripture Union Movement , with which it has been associated since 1966 . |
| 23 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 24 | Drawing on a notion of autonomy which originates with Kant , and which is developed in the writings of Hegel and Marx , Assiter extends this notion and criticises the way in which it has been confined to the public sphere . |
| 25 | Remarkably , although the Amateur Championship first took place in 1885 , this is only the third occasion on which it has been staged in Ireland . |
| 26 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 27 | I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now . |
| 28 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 29 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 30 | And erm slabs of it it had been cut like er it looked you know if you sort of cut lard or something like that . |