Example sentences of "it have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 2 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 3 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 4 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 5 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 6 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 7 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 8 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 9 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 10 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 11 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 12 | Resolutions 242 and 338 are the agreed basis for peace talks and speak of Israel giving up territory it has been occupying since 1967 in return for peace . |
| 13 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 14 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 15 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 16 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 17 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 18 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 19 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 20 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
| 21 | It 's a long time it 's been going since that sort of thing . |
| 22 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 23 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 24 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 25 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 26 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 27 | It 's been working with NeXT since January , tuning the software and getting the right hardware configuration — stuff like modifying its QVision board . |
| 28 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |
| 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 . |