Example sentences of "it have [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 2 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 3 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 4 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 6 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 7 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 8 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 9 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 10 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 11 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 12 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 13 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 14 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 15 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 16 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 17 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 18 | Dynasticism was not dead ; for some rulers , promoting family interests was as important as it had been to a Tudor or a Valois . |
| 19 | He had achieved his aim of recreating the days of his ancestors , at least in part , but it had been at a great cost . |
| 20 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 21 | It had been like a miracle . |
| 22 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 23 | It had been in a pocket diary , and the names of the faraway places written on it were like magic — Africa , Australia , China , Equator , Printed in Hong Kong , Iceland … . |
| 24 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 25 | Although the LDP enjoyed an overall majority in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber of the Diet ) , it had been in a minority in the 252-seat upper chamber , the House of Councillors , since the elections of July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] . |
| 26 | Thereafter , with its circulation collapsing , it had been in a state of crisis . |
| 27 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 28 | No , it 's been , it 's been over a period of two or three years ? |
| 29 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 30 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |