Example sentences of "it have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 2 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 3 | A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day . |
| 4 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 5 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 6 | But I hope Graham will look at my bowling this winter in a different light to the way it has been in the past by England . |
| 7 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 9 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 10 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 11 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 12 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |
| 13 | It has been in the pipeline for a while , and Unix Labs now hopes to embrace the Common Open Software Environment 's planned developers ' conference . |
| 14 | so er , he goes off and he comes back with three samples then , well one of them , it has been in the window as well , but it 's a very definite diamondy shape |
| 15 | IT HAS BEEN in the air for months : Charles Saatchi , according to New York 's uniquely garrulous and paranoid clan of dealers and artists , is selling , and he is selling in a big way . |
| 16 | It has been in the College Library ever since as its greatest treasure . |
| 17 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 18 | It has been in the family for over 200 years . |
| 19 | It has been in the forefront of the WCC 's conciliar process on Justice , Peace and Integrity of Creation . |
| 20 | And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion . |
| 21 | Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour . |
| 22 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 23 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 24 | It has been around the world with him . |
| 25 | Second , it has been around the definition and significance of culture that some of the sharpest disagreements and disputes in the field of multiculturalism and antiracism have been expressed . |
| 26 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 27 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 28 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 29 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 30 | It had been worth the risk . |