Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never drops below magnitude 10.5 , and at maximum it may rise to 5.9 , so that it is then on the fringe of naked-eye visibility and is easy in any binoculars ; it is distinguished by its intense redness , and it has been nicknamed the Crimson Star . |
| 2 | It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government 's new Passenger 's Charter . |
| 3 | It has been given the name " facial vision " , because blind people have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch , on the face . |
| 4 | Wembley confirmed tonight that it has been given the go-ahead to make more room for wheelchairs . |
| 5 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 6 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 7 | It has been called the Dance of the Clouds . |
| 8 | It has been called the flower of Spain . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It has been called the quickest personal growth experience you can have . |
| 10 | Given the detail in which it has been decided the curriculum will be determined and assessed , these problems are inevitable . |
| 11 | It has been decided the powers that be , are onto the something that you are going to do your first semester exam in June . |
| 12 | It has been christened the Ecotec V6 ( emission , consumption , optimisation and technology ) because of its compactness , economy and cleanness . |
| 13 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 14 | But , particularly since Tiananmen , it has been echoing the argument that people would be less concerned to leave Hong Kong before 1997 if they could be absolutely confident that other countries would accept them after that date . |
| 15 | It has been suggested the phrase ‘ pretended family relationship ’ is directed at the book Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin , which shows a girl living with her father and a male partner who have a homosexual relationship ; the presence of this book in an ILEA school was seized upon by the tabloid press . |
| 16 | It has been suggested the windows were executed by craftsmen from the Buda workshop of Matthias Corvinus , inspired by the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino . |
| 17 | It has been suggested the case may yet go to the Appeal Court and possibly the House of Lords . |
| 18 | It has been suggested the Director of Public Prosecutions might be persuaded to do this . |
| 19 | It has been estimated the Sweden has 65,000 wells , that is 15–20 per cent of all private wells , which are acidified to the extent that they are eligible to receive government grants to help pay for the cost of restoring water quality . |
| 20 | Botticelli , works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Mantegna and the museum 's most famous work , the Profile of a Young Lady by Antonio Pollaiolo , now used as a symbol of the Poldi-Pezzoli and a painting that adorns the face of many Milanese tourist brochures — including one on the city 's museums in which it has been reproduced the wrong way round ! |
| 21 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 22 | The company says it has been previewing the new X-stations for three weeks and has already taken orders for over 2,300 units . |
| 23 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 24 | It has been claimed the computer failure on October 26 and 27 and again on Wednesday led to the deaths of some patients . |
| 25 | More than once it has been labelled the oriel town of the upper Rhine , and certainly the multiplicity of those beautifully shaped projecting windows , so delicately ornamented , are a significant factor in preserving the essentially medieval atmosphere of the place . |
| 26 | But with ‘ decultured ’ Aborigines it has become such a problem that it has been labelled the Black Death . |
| 27 | What must be remembered though is that whatever is asked and answered in a survey has to be inputted in some way and once it has been processed the output has to be read by someone . |
| 28 | The general effect of these four differences between health and education in relation to economic growth is that it has proved far more difficult and controversial to measure the impact of health on economic growth and where it has been attempted the effects have been estimated to be lower than those resulting from education . |
| 29 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 30 | His charm , his little anecdotes , even this scene played in the velvet darkness — all of it had been to answer the challenge she 'd so foolishly set before him . |