Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [adj] on " in BNC.
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1 | For more than a decade there has been an inverse relationship between government policy on public expenditure and that on education ; it has been low on funding and high on educational aspiration and expectation . |
2 | It has been profitable on annual turnover of about £180m — $270m — over the past few years . |
3 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
4 | It has been wrong on unilateralism and trade union legislation and wrong about the man whom it picked to lead the Labour party . |
5 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
6 | His hair , by contrast , fell untidily to his shoulders and his patchy beard looked as though it had been stuck on at random . |
7 | She was wearing a chartreuse dress that looked as if it had been spray-painted on . |
8 | That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll . |
9 | It 's been tough on the kids . |
10 | Let's just check No it 's been quiet on break-ins at the moment . |