Example sentences of "it have been [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
| 2 | The effect of this change could be profound : it has been compared to the revolution that science produced in the consciousness of men and women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 3 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 4 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 5 | That there has been a consistent theme to British economic policy over many years is clear ; how successfully it has been implemented within the EEC is more obscure . |
| 6 | You think it has been kept in the ‘ fridge so what do you do ? |
| 7 | While it has been demonstrated by the work of Piaget and others that , at primary school age , children 's understanding functions at the concrete operational stage , more recent research in primary history has tended to suggest that children 's " historical " thinking can be developed and encouraged by certain teaching techniques . |
| 8 | The question of open access is not political ; it is the essence of all UK privatisations and it has been demonstrated in the electricity supply industry that competition is not only possible , but healthy , in the generation and supply of electricity . |
| 9 | But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts : it is in the south-east and in the services sector . |
| 10 | It has been noted at the NLM that there are an increasing number of end-users — medical practitioners — who are interested in using the MEDLINE system themselves . |
| 11 | Where this is known in advance it has been noted on the flight tables . |
| 12 | 35 , 40 , it is recommended that such a promise as that to which I have referred , should be enforceable in law even though no consideration for it has been given by the promisee . |
| 13 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |
| 14 | Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being . |
| 15 | It has been seen in the last chapter how Bishop Tunstall observed that it was not sufficient to burn the heretics and their works and appealed to Sir Thomas More , the best-known English writer of his time , to write against them . |
| 16 | A Design Change can be aborted using option 2.7.0 , Abort DC , if , for example , it refers to the wrong module or it has been activated through the wrong package . |
| 17 | With a total budget of almost £2 million , it has been funded by the Corporation of London , the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen and commercial sponsorship from companies such as Den Danske Bank and Scandic Crown Hotels UK . |
| 18 | Some concern has been expressed that in its transposition the idiom of Taizé may seem musically and liturgically slight , because it has been separated from the particular spirituality of which it is part . |
| 19 | Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law . |
| 20 | It has been strengthened by the continued attention paid by the Americans to their own arid regions and , in later years , by the general increase of research in Africa . |
| 21 | San Jose-based Maxoptix Corp , joint venture of Maxtor Corp and Kubota Corp , reports that the European Computer Manufacturers Association has formally endorsed the Maxoptix 1Gb zoned constant angular velocity magneto-optical disk format as ECMA Standard £183 and that it has been accepted by the International Standards Organisation for its Fast Track procedure as a Draft International Standard ; the spec is an extension of the 650Mb standard . |
| 22 | It does not require that contests be pairwise , and is not confined to fighting behaviour ; it has been applied to the evolution of the sex ratio , of dispersal , of growth strategies in plants , and so on . |
| 23 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 24 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
| 25 | The company may soon develop a similar property on Duke Street where it has been selected as the preferred developer for vacant properties on the street . |
| 26 | It comprises 134 pictures , but no etchings nor drawings , which will be the subject of an exhibition at the British Museum in 1995 , and it has been selected by the two leading Sickert scholars , Dr Wendy Barron , Director of the Government Art Collection and author of the standard catalogue of his work , and Richard Shone , Associate Editor of the Burlington Magazine . |
| 27 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 28 | The Newry ground has already been inspected by representatives of the National Safety Council and although the extended terracing could have coped with upwards on 17,000 , it has been decided in the interests of spectators ' comforts to make 14,000 tickets available . |
| 29 | Up to now , it has been run by the government 's centre for information systems , the Central Computer & Telecommunications Agency . |
| 30 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |