Example sentences of "it have been [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 2 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 3 | It has been typical weather on Britain 's south coast this August . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry it has been rotten weather at home . |
| 5 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 6 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 7 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 8 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 9 | Since November , it has been spreading country-by-country through Europe in a wave which International intends to ride all the way to No 1 position in the market . |
| 10 | Not only did it emerge largely intact , it has been busy setting up shadowy ‘ national salvation committees ’ in whose name the army has been operating . |
| 11 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 12 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 13 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 14 | It had been one way of making firms more competitive . |
| 15 | Christ , it had been one hell of a thrash , an absolute bloody classic . |
| 16 | It had been one thing to be suddenly full of Dutch courage at the thought that Freddie Nash , having seen Eleanor again , had decided to seek her out . |
| 17 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 18 | It 's been good talking to you . |
| 19 | It 's been grand chatting to you , Michael . |
| 20 | Radio personality Michael Parkinson said : ‘ It 's been general knowledge for ages . |
| 21 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 22 | It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year . |
| 23 | It 's been another day of unwanted exposure for the Duchess of York with yet more holiday snaps emblazoned across the tabloids . |
| 24 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been wonderful weather of late , has n't it ? |
| 26 | It 's been hard work for us but we 're not giving in in here and that 's it . |
| 27 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 28 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |
| 29 | It 's been lovely talking with you , but if I 'm to get home … ’ |
| 30 | If it 's been re-registered sort of thing , so there 's a big line in cars all . |