Example sentences of "and it have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her .
2 It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato .
3 Coun. Alan Robinson ( Lab ) said towns all over Europe had introduced pedestrian-only shopping for at least part of the day and it had been hailed as a great success .
4 The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned .
5 The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third .
6 Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield .
7 A new system of fines has been introduced to courts in north Oxfordshire today , and it 's been viewed by the government with much interest .
8 Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends .
9 There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence .
10 New drivers taking their L tests from next year will face a fresh challenge as part of their examination , and it 's been announced by the Roads Minister , Christopher Chope today .
11 and it 's been and it 's been beaten to hell .
12 and it 's been drained of blood , it 's all wrinkly and
13 So there 's a whole range now which requires just one prime mover to lift these pods and deposit them where they 're needed , and it 's been done in Germany elsewhere , in Fire Brigades elsewhere , certainly in Germany because I went and saw them there as well , and it 's a very simple straightforward progressive sort of way of dealing with problems of the Fire Service .
14 And it 's been achieved by Forest keeping their nerve , their heads , their shape and , above all , their beliefs during a year that was turning into annus horribilis .
15 I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food .
16 And it 's been turned into fairground attraction … but be warned , you 'll need a strong stomach .
17 there is an argument , ha and it 's been put by er a a noted writed who 's recently written on the menopause that , work , and you should just make the most of being a crone or a hag or an old women !
18 And it 's been coming from Austria this week
19 And it 's been bought upon by necessity really they 've had to play their way through and they certainly should be capable of doing that .
20 But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down .
21 Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since .
22 in time and it 's been going for about five years .
23 Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue
24 It 's been approved by the policy group and it 's been approved by police committee .
25 I mean they , and also a lot of people are shy to once as erm , someone 's put up someone else and it 's been seconded by two people on the committee they feel there 's no point in
26 No I said four four from the letter and it 's been left at that .
27 It 's an exact replica of a living bull elephant , which leads a herd on the Skeleton Coast of south-west Africa and it 's been ordered by a wealthy businessman in California .
28 It 's an exact replica of a living bull elephant , which leads a herd on the Skeleton Coast of south-west Africa and it 's been ordered by a wealthy businessman in California .
29 Erm the only example that I can think of where that went wrong was where there was a delay in the post but er we certainly do endeavour , it was er it was something which we 've introduced in the last erm eighteen months and it 's been welcomed by members and er it is certainly our intention to give everyone as much notice as possible .
30 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 .
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