Example sentences of "[adj] it have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 2 | In support of this it has been pointed out that two distinct kinds of descriptive statement can be made about a verbal work of art . |
| 3 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 4 | Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home . |
| 5 | In the end de Gaulle 's strategy had succeeded , but the fact that it had required Coty 's intervention to be successful showed just how risky it had been . |
| 6 | The company was formed on Albert Hill in 1864 and by the time it closed in 1879 it had been responsible for 40 bridges in Denmark , 20 bridges in Sweden all built in 1874 , all the viaducts on the Whitby-RedcarMiddlesbrough line including the Staithes Viaduct , Llandudno pier , a bridge in Syria , another over the Tay in Scotland and a footbridge over the Tees at Barnard Castle . |
| 7 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 8 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 9 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 10 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 11 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 12 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 13 | So for some it 's been a blessing . |
| 14 | Bristol University Student Union declined to join the protest , afraid it had been hijacked by extremists . |
| 15 | CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 . |
| 16 | And how painful it 's been at times to love you . |
| 17 | During 1986 and 1987 , more than two-thirds of their work was repeat business ; in 1985 it had been 80% , so much of the increase in volume was due to winning new clients . |
| 18 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 19 | To get a different view , and yet I it 's been very interesting it 's been very interesting |
| 20 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 21 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 22 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 23 | It was also a strategic move towards the long-term goal of gaining international recognition for its struggle , and as such it had been resisted steadfastly by Ramos 's predecessors . |
| 24 | As such it has been identified as part of a general movement towards scientific naturalism in American thought and is associated with the behaviourist turn taken in political science and , in the study of law , with the legal realist movement which flourished in the inter-war period . |
| 25 | As such it has been used as a very weak tea ( 6g/¼oz to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of water ) ( one cup per day ) by male artists and craftsmen . |
| 26 | Since the abolition of exchange controls in the UK in October 1979 it has been possible for residents of the UK to hold foreign currency on account if they so wish . |
| 27 | Twice Iorwerth 's warning signal had fetched them hastily to their pre-arranged places ; but on the first occasion Isambard had shunned the dripping copse and ridden away down the softer slopes eastward of Parfois , with his attendants strung out after him like beads on the string of darker green he left in the wet grass ; and on the second it had been a full-scale hunt with a dozen or more guests and very nearly fifty retainers , and Owen had held his hand , unwilling to venture against such odds . |
| 28 | In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 . |
| 29 | Italy : Since October 1991 it has been compulsory for employers/appropriate authorities to offer hepatitis B vaccine free of charge to a wide range of occupational groups including : police officers , fire fighters |
| 30 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |