Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 2 | Where there has been new investment it has been financed largely from income generated in Africa and re-invested locally . |
| 3 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 4 | In Prague 's second spring it has been superseded by the hustle and bustle of an emerging democracy — a society full of the good , the bad and the ugly . |
| 5 | Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support . |
| 6 | In defence of fishing it has been alleged that , were it not for fishermen on our rivers , accidental or deliberate pollution would not be detected so quickly . |
| 7 | In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio . |
| 8 | It will seek to make maximum use of the units it has been given for offlining . |
| 9 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 10 | In the non-insulin-dependent diabetic it has been postulated that insulin may play a key role in the pathogenesis of elevated blood pressure . |
| 11 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 12 | In this study it has been shown by two independent methods that histamine increases the in vitro proliferation of the two gastric tumour cells ; MKN45 and MKN45G but not the two colorectal lines ; C170 and LoVo . |
| 13 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 14 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 15 | And in order to accommodate the general rule it has been deemed necessary to deprive certain compound words , like sèche-cheveux , of their plural endings when used in the singular . |
| 16 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 17 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 18 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 19 | Moreover , if we explore the course of English Literature , if we consider from what source its stream has sprung , by what tributaries it has been fed , and with how rich and full current it has come down to us , we shall see that it has other advantages not to be found elsewhere . |
| 20 | It also obliges the outside world — meaning the West , and above all , the United States — to come to a decision about the military action it has been threatening . |
| 21 | A. fragilis has been found on both sides of the Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded off Martha 's Vineyard north to the Davis Strait and W. Greenland at depths of 430–2640 m ; in the eastern side it has been recorded from the Faeroe Channel in 750 m . |
| 22 | However , for these proteins it has been shown that only one ( or a few ) copies are functional genes and the remaining copies are processed pseudogenes ( 6 ) . |
| 23 | In recent months it has been expanding its market research activities while offloading its education publishing division and other subsidiaries in a bid to slash debt . |
| 24 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 25 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 26 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 27 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 28 | In consolidating data from several areas it has been proposed that a rapid rise of sea level occurred in the early Holocene but that in the last 6000 years the rate has been far less , although it may have diminished progressively , it may have risen to c . |
| 29 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 30 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |