Example sentences of "it have be [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
2 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
3 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
4 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
5 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
6 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
7 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
8 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
9 | It has been going on for too long . |
10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
11 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
12 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
13 | Could it have been to make up for Cymbeline 's cheating that the Umpire permitted me to find the sacristy so easily ? |
14 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
15 | It was nonsense to pretend it had been done solely for her benefit . |
16 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
17 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
18 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |
19 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
20 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
21 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
22 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
23 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
24 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
25 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
26 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
27 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
28 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
29 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
30 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |