Example sentences of "it have [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 2 | If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 4 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 5 | It has been indicated above that Scottish law developed slightly differently from English law . |
| 6 | Our teachers have mastered its methods with ease and it has been met with great success , interest and enthusiasm by our students . |
| 7 | Flowers concluded with a much-quoted dictum : ‘ There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived , highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future . ’ |
| 8 | It has been demonstrated with experimental animals , and observed from babies kept in institutions ( like hospitals ) , that lack of sensory stimulation impairs intelligence . |
| 9 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been assumed by many that this will lead to a system of ‘ educational inheritance ’ directly comparable to that observed in capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , pp. 231–2 ) . |
| 11 | It has been assumed by some writers that statements of attainment should be adapted for children with learning difficulties by producing more detailed learning hierarchies than the statutory orders provide . |
| 12 | It has been trialled with encouraging results : in an informal trial ending in the summer of 1984 the mixed ability class which had done some of the course came out ahead of parallel classes in all subjects . |
| 13 | It has been noted above that while the accepted Turkish tradition has rejected the Muftilik of Molla Yegan and has passed straight from the Muftilik of Molla Fenari to that of Fahreddin Acemi , there is evidence , part of which is the source chiefly used in formulating the Turkish tradition , to show that Molla Yegan did succeed Molla Fenari in his office of Mufti . |
| 14 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 15 | While this system may have been satisfactory when inflation was negligible , it has been seen as more of a disadvantage in recent years . |
| 16 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 17 | However , there have been two modern instances in which it has been invoked by private individuals as part of a vendetta against their journalist-tormentors . |
| 18 | Although Hampden Babylon will be distrusted by managers , administrators , footballers and agents , it has been written from inside football . |
| 19 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 20 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
| 21 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 22 | First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’ |
| 23 | It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution . |
| 24 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 25 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 26 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 27 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 28 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 29 | Originally presented in terms of partial equilibrium analysis , it has been extended in two principal directions . |
| 30 | MacLink also has a role to play in the translation of information once it has been transferred by other communications systems ; simple serial links , modem or Email based file transfer or the third main method for getting files between Macintoshes and PCs , disk exchange . |