Example sentences of "it [verb] be [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 2 | Infanticide by males which have just taken over a harem is probably common in nature in many species : it has been observed several times in the Hanuman langur ( Presbytis entellus , a species of primate ) and has been anecdotally recorded in many other mammals . |
| 3 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 4 | It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully . |
| 5 | It has been suggested many times since . |
| 6 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 7 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 8 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 9 | It has been reprinted several times , beginning in 1910 . |
| 10 | A British team managed to reach one that , although it had been hooked several hours before , was still just living when its captor got it ashore . |
| 11 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 12 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 13 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 14 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 15 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 16 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 17 | ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since . |
| 18 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |
| 19 | I understand it 's been offered several homes so that would be nice . |