Example sentences of "[subord] it have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 2 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 3 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 4 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 5 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 6 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 7 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 8 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 9 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 10 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 12 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 13 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 14 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 15 | Please ensure that you are currently the associated user of the package ie. either the package manager or the nominated approver ( if it has been submitted for approval ) . |
| 16 | Please ensure that you are currently the associated user of the package ie. either the package manager or the nominated approver ( if it has been submitted for approval ) also that you have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege . |
| 17 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 18 | Michael Heseltine , when Secretary of State for the Environment , introduced a simple test , which is now permanently enshrined in the Planning circulars : permission will not normally be granted for the demolition of a listed building unless it has been offered for sale on the open market , preferably freehold . |
| 19 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 20 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 21 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 22 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 23 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 24 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 25 | LIFESPAN prevents a DC being updated after it has been submitted for assessment . |
| 26 | And ‘ the moor ’ is the description of the scene before it had been claimed for cultivation . |
| 27 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 28 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 29 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 30 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |