Example sentences of "it have [be] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 2 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 5 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 6 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 7 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 8 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 9 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 10 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 11 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 13 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 14 | It had been raining heavily since dawn , water sluicing the gutters of the courtyard , creating rainbows of the patches of oil on the tarmac of the consultants ' car park . |
| 15 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 16 | A local man bought the car from 's estate when he died in 1965 for £50 and intended to restore her , but until recently it had been rusting away in his garage . |
| 17 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 18 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 19 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 20 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 21 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 22 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 23 | It 's Mackeson Gold Cup Day , it 's been raining heavily at Cheltenham , there 's a non-runner in the big race details coming up . |
| 24 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 27 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |
| 29 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 30 | You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose . |