Example sentences of "it have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 2 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 3 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 4 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 5 | As a member of the Select Committee on Sittings of the House , I give nothing away — because it has been said in public session — when I say that consideration must be given to the views of the Lord President and the shadow Leader of the House about the timetabling of legislation , following some of the thinking on the subject of the Select Committee on Procedure . |
| 6 | BRITISH Telecom complains it has been plagued in recent weeks with claims that chairman Iain Vallance is resigning . |
| 7 | It has been raised in progressive stages to the present limit of £1,500 million . |
| 8 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 9 | To begin with , the term notion is itself a cause of some confusion since it has been interpreted in different ways in relation to its companion function . |
| 10 | At present , little is known about the role of platelet activating factor in ulcerative diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in man , although it has been reported in mucosal biopsy specimens from patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 12 | It has been rumoured in recent months that the Inland Revenue is seeking to attack the arrangements mentioned above either under the Furniss v Dawson doctrine or under the ‘ transactions in securities ’ legislation in s 703 , ICTA 1988 . |
| 13 | In two cases , Smith v Bradford MC ( 1982 ) 4 HLR 86 and McCauley v Bristol City Council [ 1991 ] 3 WLR 968 , it has been held in similar circumstances that a landlord was liable in tort under s. 4 Defective Premises Act 1972 . |
| 14 | ( It has been republished in recent years with a preface by Sir Keith Joseph . ) |
| 15 | The diary quickly achieved remarkable popularity : it has been republished in numerous editions , and in 1977 a successful television series based on incidents from it was produced by the BBC . |
| 16 | However , if the nurse takes the time to give information to the patient , it has been shown in various studies to be beneficial ( Hayward , 1975 ; Wilson-Barnett , 1978 ; Boore , 1979 ; Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | In chapter 3 , we noticed that lexical alternants ( of the pull type ) are highly salient in the community , and it has been shown in various studies ( such as J. Milroy , 1981 ) that these alternants encode values of greater and lesser solidarity . |
| 18 | For example , it has been shown in certain studies that providing health care to some more isolated rural populations is more expensive than in less sparsely populated areas . |
| 19 | It is easier than intravenous heparin to give and it has been shown in randomised studies from McMaster University in Canada that it is as effective . |
| 20 | It had been raised in international conferences in the late 1960s but was first officially presented by a Malaysian diplomat in April 1970 at the preparatory meeting of the non-aligned states in Dar-es-Salaam . |
| 21 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 22 | It had been engaged in regular combat with the Red Army , as part of German forces . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not necessary to consider what would have been the effect of the payment of £20 if it had been made in full satisfaction of the demand against Hunter . |
| 24 | ‘ We had very little work to do to it because it had been kept in great condition throughout its time as a lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | The interior was still waiting for its first clean and the upholstery felt as if it had been textured in buff nicotine . |
| 26 | It had been left in beautiful order — carpets , central heating , furniture , thick curtains . |
| 27 | It had been re-affirmed as a centre-piece of Roman-Catholic social philosophy in the Encyclical ‘ Quadrogesimo Anno ’ of 1931 , some time after it had been enshrined in various pieces of German social welfare legislation in the 1920s . |
| 28 | The language , if it had been translated in modern language there 'd be no , no problem ? |
| 29 | It had been popularized in lesbian feminist circles by the American writer , Adrienne Rich , and was taken up as a way of understanding the common ground between the very different oppressions experienced by lesbians and gay men of different classes , different ages , different races , etc . |
| 30 | He said Hawes as in Hawes , but that 's the only time it 's been mentioned in public . ’ |