Example sentences of "it have be [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 2 | It has been occurring on lines one , two and the machine . |
| 3 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 4 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 5 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 6 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 7 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 8 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |
| 9 | It 's been dripping for weeks and Timmy 's always falling about in the mud . ’ |