Example sentences of "it [vb -s] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1824 to 1839 , he was in charge of a penal colony on Moreton Bay , Queensland , and when the colony was made a free settlement in 1842 , the town and river on which it stands were called Brisbane in his honour . |
| 2 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 3 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 4 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 5 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 6 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 7 | The last is probably the most important since it has been observed time and again that , during constitutional treatment , old symptoms reminiscent of previous states of health tend to recur , until a state of health can sometimes eventually be achieved where the only illnesses experienced are those common to childhood , such as coughs , colds , sore throats and skin rashes . |
| 8 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 9 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 10 | It has been received wisdom that Scotland is fiercely opposed to the NHS reforms , especially to hospital trusts . |
| 11 | For almost a decade it has been providing courses in the art of leather carving , tooling , dyeing and stitching as well as offering craft kits for sale . |
| 12 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
| 13 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 14 | It has been touring Britain for 30 years now . |
| 15 | Reductivism and retributivism do not exhaust all the possible justifications for punishment , or the aims which it has been suggested punishment can rightly pursue . |
| 16 | It has been sliced longways to show the internal structure . |
| 17 | O. spectabilis is found on both sides of the North Atlantic : in the west it has been recorded from off Nova Scotia at the depth of 238 m , while in the east it has been found south of Iceland , Norway , SW . |
| 18 | It has been working miracles . |
| 19 | For the last three years , it has been working flat out on its comparability project , to reduce the number of alternative accounting methods allowed in its international accounting standards . |
| 20 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 21 | During the opening ceremony Governor Hunt paid special tribute to Courtaulds ' long association with Alabama — it has been making viscose rayon there for 40 years — presenting a ‘ birthday ’ proclamation to David Duthie , head of the company 's Cellulosics business . |
| 22 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 23 | Formed in 1920 it has been making men 's shoes in Rushden ever since . |
| 24 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 25 | It has been selling IBM notebooks at a rate of some 2,000 a month since last spring but now wants to sell the PS/V models that were unveiled by IBM Japan Ltd in October . |
| 26 | The latter has also been identified in proliferating Schwann cells where it has been termed SCIP [ 9 ] . |
| 27 | DEC was trying to gain visibility last week for the 661 companies it says are porting programs over Alpha . |
| 28 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 29 | my Lord that that 's with respect right , erm certainly what , what he says that does n't necessarily lead to that conclusion all it does is have void what maybe authority between |
| 30 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |