Example sentences of "it have [adv] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has n't been any attempt about savings , or reduced commitments or any , or everything is here , and if it has n't been attempts , perhaps we could have a list of what 's actually been removed . |
| 2 | If it has n't been invaders from without it 's been subversion from within . |
| 3 | If a club has finished its league and cup programme , then it has also been practice that any ban imposed wo n't take effect until the start of next season , so as not to prevent the player taking part in close-season and pre-season tournaments . |
| 4 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 5 | 11.2 At the same time , the Department recognises that it has long been practice to seek assistance from the police in certain situations , particularly in order to avoid a breach of the peace when carrying out statutory duties which involve the restriction of liberty and removal of persons . |
| 6 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
| 7 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 8 | PFR Station Manager , Mr Ed Adam said : ‘ It has always been AEA 's intention to bring PFR back to power as soon as possible . |
| 9 | It has always been Whitbread 's aim to try and promote from within . |
| 10 | It has always been ACET 's policy to work with and complement statutory and other voluntary organizations . |
| 11 | It has never been de rigueur for academics who rise to high places in English departments , and , conversely , students who possess it may not do well in formal examinations . |
| 12 | What I 've been through is most extraordinary , I would n't call it crucifixion exactly , because I 'm not religious , but I actually thought I was doing quite radical work and it has never been names as such . |
| 13 | It had not been Mrs Diggory who had told Lady Lavinia about herself and Benedict . |
| 14 | What if it had not been Nicole on the phone at all ? |
| 15 | It had not been charm alone , and it certainly had not been favouritism that had taken Fergus on his upward journey . |
| 16 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 17 | If it had not been Con Gallagher it would have been someone else . ’ |
| 18 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 19 | It had not been McAllister 's night from dead ball situations and the consequences had been widespread . |
| 20 | It had already been love at first hearing . |
| 21 | If it had n't been dope it would have been valium : what 's the difference ? |
| 22 | If it had n't been Mario , you 'd have thought it was schmaltz ; with Mario , it was peppered with self-irony , with seriousness , punctuated with laughter , with suddenly remembered incidents . |
| 23 | So it had n't been Johnny up there this morning , after all . |
| 24 | It had n't been irony ; Creston would n't be able to contain himself . |
| 25 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |
| 26 | It had also been Marcus who had phoned Connon with the news of Arthur 's visit to the police station . |
| 27 | The idea that Stamford was the centre of Mercian government was invented by William Stukeley in the 1730s from his belief that Alchfrith had held his court here and that it had formerly been Hengist 's town . |
| 28 | But it had just been part of Isabelle 's patient determination to make Sabine as bilingual as possible . |
| 29 | And he had n't even wanted her ; it had just been part of a plan . |
| 30 | It had always been Jamie Reid 's belief that the Sex Pistols should be broken up after successfully scandalising the Jubilee . |