Example sentences of "[prep] it have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 2 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 3 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 4 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 5 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 6 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 7 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 8 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 9 | The poetry of China is even more extensive than that of Europe , and only the surface of it has been scratched by the West . |
| 10 | There 's a , apparently a lot of it has been affected by Georgia 's not that far away is it ? |
| 11 | Some of it has been disturbed by later developments : the site of the Early Iron Age , classical and Hellenistic city of Knossos overlaps with that of the Minoan city ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) — but nevertheless much remains to be excavated . |
| 12 | The literature on accounting theory is relatively new ( the bulk of it has been generated over the last 50 years ) , and it has , until recently , been almost exclusively concerned with public limited companies ( Whittington , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | And I often say that young ladies who are looking over their shoulder like this , you 've got ta be careful of the neck because when they turn round and look over their shoulder you get creases in the neck , and there is a slight crease in the neck there but most of it has been disguised by covering it with her hair , so look out for that when you have a young lady , or anybody , looking over their shoulder , particularly with young ladies , when they look over their shoulder like that it does cause creases in the side of the neck which can be unsightly . |
| 14 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 15 | A customised robust variant of it has been designed for the Ministry of Defence under quality-assurance procedures . |
| 16 | A lot of it has been focused on my body — first for being too fat , now for being too thin . |
| 17 | Some of it has been reclaimed for housing , new industry or agriculture but much remains to disfigure the landscape . |
| 18 | Because the land here is valuable most of it has been bought for shops and offices , many rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks . |
| 19 | Now we come to resolution one , which is the Annual Report , the Accounts , and the Auditors , and although Geoffrey is not here , er , we 've done a video of him , which is now about to be shown , who will introduce er this , and I just like to say , that this has been sponsor the cost of it has been sponsored by the Shell International Petroleum Company , to whom we are very grateful if my head pops up and obscures some of the shout down , will you |
| 20 | Copies of the environmental statement and a non-technical summary of it have been placed in the Vote Office . |
| 21 | Variants of it have been used in many situations . |
| 22 | Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Allied side hitherto . |
| 23 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 24 | On the contrary , the Skein of Geese was exactly as Heather had photographed it , save only that the trees behind it had been stripped of their leaves and the croquet hoops put away for the winter . |
| 25 | His passionate involvement with it had been sharpened by the realisation that owing to Géricault 's heavy use of bitumen the picture was in a very poor condition . |
| 26 | The remarkably well-preserved Dark Age monastery at San Vincenzo and the villages associated with it have been investigated to an extent never hitherto possible . |
| 27 | They had brought in some greasy foreigner as partner when all along it had been promised to him . |
| 28 | Nevertheless when the book appeared in November 1948 , passages from it having been previewed in Penguin New Writing 33 , it made a significant impact . |
| 29 | It also now appears that his cathedral was considerably bigger than anyone thought , since sections of cylindrical columns from it have been re-used in later works . |
| 30 | The vegetable patch was hers and all the things in it had been grown by her loving hand without the help of a single gardener . |