Example sentences of "[subord] it have been [verb] [prep] " 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 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 3 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 4 | It was found abandoned at about 7.30am yesterday in Northlands Approach , off Dry Street — about four miles across town — where it had been driven into a garden wall . |
| 5 | She 'd had to use , muscle tissue had wasted away where it had been stretched by the double hernia |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 8 | A short note from a spy in Paris : Eudo Tailler 's head had been fished from the Seine where it had been thrown in a sack . |
| 9 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 10 | Naumann and occasional partner Alfred Bader purchased the work at Christie 's , London , in December 1992 for £1,045,000 ( $1,610,345 ) , where it had been consigned as ‘ The Property of a Lady and a Gentleman ’ . |
| 11 | Rather neatly , the sale 's top lot , Mrs Johnson 's bureau plat by Leleu , which sold on a commission bid at £1.1. million ( $2 million ; estimate in excess of £750,000 ) , had been purchased by her from Christie 's for £300,000 in 1981 , where it had been consigned from Meikleour , having formed part of the original collection . |
| 12 | Well where it 's been hacked about |
| 13 | The thickness of the Stinkdolomit in areas where it has been affected by late leaching is about 40–60 m and of this , about 10–20 m might be expected to constitute potential net pay . |
| 14 | The WGMS could , in short , be adopted in the United Kingdom in full confidence that insignificant hiccups in the form of excess seats would be no more frequent than they are in the Federal Republic , where it has been tested in eleven general elections and not found wanting . |
| 15 | By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges . |
| 16 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 17 | Mrs Clinton , the new First Lady , has supported the magazine since it was founded in the United States in 1972 , where it has been regarded as a valuable weapon in the campaign for women 's liberation . |
| 18 | This pathway is fully operational in germ cells , where it has been implicated in both fertilization and early development . |
| 19 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 20 | Be that as it may , chancroid is diagnosed and treated with frequency in endemic areas where it has been described as a disease of the socially unenlightened and the economically unfortunate . |
| 21 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 22 | A term is always to be regarded as not individually negotiated where it has been drafted in advance and the consumer has therefore not been able to influence the substance of the term , particularly in the context of a pre-formulated standard contract . |
| 23 | According to published studies , it is mainly associated with Hodgkin 's disease , where it has been reported in up to 6% of cases in postmorten studies ; the incidence of oesophageal invasion by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma does not exceed 1.6% . |
| 24 | On the left is a sample about 1 m distant on the cave floor where it has been subjected to trampling by the owls and other small animals . |
| 25 | There are educational approaches where it has been used as a method . |
| 26 | It has been pointed out that " unreasonableness " has been used in two ways in this area : ( a ) in an " umbrella " sense where it has been used as a synonym for abuse of power covering the various aspects of abuse of power already mentioned ; ( b ) in a substantive sense where it means manifest unreasonableness , a decision or exercise of power that is so unreasonable that no reasonable man would agree with it . |
| 27 | A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated . |
| 28 | To the east it reached the Indus Valley , where it has been found at Harappan sites , contemporary once again with lapis lazuli . |
| 29 | This species has been recorded from the western Atlantic where it has been found from the West Indies as far north as South Carolina 295–763 m . |
| 30 | 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 ! |