Example sentences of "it have been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been proven in trials to be one of the most accurate machines of its kind , comparing well with laboratory standard equipment . |
| 2 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 3 | It has been noticed by others that the type of arguments which count against the Freudian type of verstehende psychology would also count against much sociology . |
| 4 | It has been noted by sociologists that in urban settings there is a ‘ norm of civil inattention ’ whereby unacquainted people typically refrain from approaching and addressing one another in public . |
| 5 | One is the open cluster M11 , nicknamed the ‘ Wild Duck ’ because telescopically it has been likened to ducks in flight , and certainly it is fan-shaped ; it contains several hundreds of stars . |
| 6 | This extreme view was not even sustained by Smith himself , although it has been repeated at intervals by people who should have known better . |
| 7 | It was the received wisdom in Edwardian Edinburgh printing offices , and it has been repeated by writers ever since , " that women first entered the trade as strike-breakers during the great print strike of 1872–3 in the city . |
| 8 | It has been observed by others that housewifery as a role for women is more positively evaluated in traditional working-class communities than in middle-class social networks . |
| 9 | The WOCT does not provide age norms , but it has been piloted with groups of normal and handicapped children , aged between 4 and 5 years 5 months , from lower social class backgrounds . |
| 10 | The noise is not sophisticated — it has been recorded without vocals and with a minimum of tone . |
| 11 | The polymerase chain reaction has been unquestionably unique , as new techniques go , in the speed with which it has been embraced by non-experts in most specialties of the biological sciences , including medicine . |
| 12 | The Yes Minister television series obviously deals in caricature , yet it has been said by insiders to be alarmingly close to the realities of the British political system . |
| 13 | It has been led by judges disillusioned with the country 's war on drugs . |
| 14 | Equally — perhaps more seriously — the relative value of the basic pension has been falling because it has been related to prices , not incomes , so that unless steps are taken , by the year 2025 the value of the basic pension as a proportion of gross earnings could have fallen by half . |
| 15 | But it seems that , regardless of the wider implications of the dispute ( it has been bracketed with refusals of voluntary aided status in its impact on religious and cultural autonomy ) , the issue was essentially one of parental choice rather than religion per se . |
| 16 | It has been calculated by scientists that , for every tree felled in the rainforests , ten others will die or be wounded by knock-on effects . |
| 17 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |
| 18 | However , it has been replaced by Friesians for milk and is now bred more for beef . |
| 19 | It has been stocked by booksellers , and it has been purchased by a variety of people . |
| 20 | ‘ A modest house with a small garden where the grass looks as though it has been cut with nail-scissors and weeded with a forceps ; a dolls ’ house , with nothing out of place , everything polished and dusted . ’ |
| 21 | Canon by inversion is not as easy to follow as normal imitation , and perhaps by reason of this obscurity it has been favoured by composers in this century — or at least by those who prefer obscurity to clarity . |
| 22 | I would add that since our decision was announced it has been rendered in headlines such as ‘ Court gives doctors right to refuse life support . ’ |
| 23 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 24 | It has been suggested by Customs and Excise that rent free periods may be the subject of value added tax by virtue of their being treated as inducements . |
| 25 | It has been suggested by proponents of the theory of the " flexible firm " that organisations making use of one form of flexible labour are also likely to make use of other forms of it ( see , for example , Atkinson , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | It has been welcomed by environmentalists , who feared that the dam would upset the Cher 's ecology . |
| 27 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 28 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 29 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 30 | An additional difficulty with the central-peripheral distinction as it has been used by researchers is the rather ad hoc definition of the difference . |