Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb -s] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that while we 've been together it 's been the activity you 've indulged in most . |
| 2 | But the government believes that the penalties have not been high enough and that hitherto it has been the workers and not company owners , the real culprits , who have been punished . |
| 3 | Ironically it has been the left , the architects of reselection , who have been under greatest threat . |
| 4 | Up until now it 's been a duet between Anthony d'Offay and Lisson galleries to win the prize . |
| 5 | So far it has been an air war : some 15,000 sorties have cost the allies less than 25 aircraft — an astonishingly light price — though five of these were RAF Tornados , lost during very hazardous low-level night attacks on massively defended targets . |
| 6 | More often it has been the engineers and the ecologists who have done so with lawyers , economists and political scientists sometimes joining in ( Hare , 1980 , p. 381 ) . |
| 7 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 8 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 9 | Their plight was gradually recognized during the early 20th century ; from the mid-century onward it has been the role of administrators , teachers , health workers , economists and lawyers to unravel some of their problems and provide alternative means of living . |
| 10 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |
| 11 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 12 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 13 | And once again it 's been a week in which the events in the gulf have dominated the headlines . |