Example sentences of "it have been [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's been all hands to the deck at this tyre fitters . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's been another day of unwanted exposure for the Duchess of York with yet more holiday snaps emblazoned across the tabloids . |
| 10 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 11 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |