Example sentences of "it have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 2 | In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 3 | MIND has continued to play a strong public role in defending the civil liberties and rights to treatment and care of all mentally disordered people , and it has been particularly successful in supporting individuals who have been maltreated and neglected by the mental health service system . |
| 4 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 5 | It has been particularly difficult for him because the Government have two of their placemen on the council , but he has managed to keep fighting though the council has this deadweight of government lackeys . ’ |
| 6 | It has been equally possible to operate the procedures in such a way as to leave all the issues open and so reveal very little to the other party about the case he or she would have to meet . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been increasingly difficult against a background of constant intervention , disgraceful behaviour and turmoil created by Stan Flashman , who seems intent on destroying everything that has been achieved by Barry Fry at Barnet FC . ’ |
| 8 | In the last few months , it has been increasingly evident that such incidents are no longer limited to the USA . |
| 9 | And since the industry is not dependent on consumer choice — safe and effective disposal of waste is a legal requirement — it has been largely recession-proof : garbage companies did well throughout the American and British recessions in the early 1980s . |
| 10 | It has been both exhilarating and draining and we have to work tomorrow , so we put in our earplugs and pull our sleeping bags over our heads while all around us the talk goes on and on . |
| 11 | Further , although this hypothesis has not yet resulted in an account incorporating consciousness , it has been remarkably successful in explaining many other mental phenomena which earlier generations saw as necessarily mysterious and as evidence for some kind of duality . |
| 12 | It has been commercially successful . |
| 13 | While the Festival lives , there is a film culture in Edinburgh ; and sometimes it has been barely alive . |
| 14 | Voice perhaps similar to Little Crake , with which it has been thoroughly confused . |
| 15 | In terms of the content of this newer work — the question that is so often evaded — it is probably true to say that much of it has been ultimately concerned with the processes and exercise of power . |
| 16 | ‘ Since 1987 , 270 Darlington companies have gone out of business and it has been overwhelmingly small companies . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 18 | ‘ It has been pretty hectic , anyhow ’ he explained before pointing out that the Chairman and Treasurer have both resigned , and he was left holding the fort . |
| 19 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 20 | Erin talks about the joy the mindless child brings her — well , so it may , but her love for it has been most destructive for others . |
| 21 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 22 | But it has been generally dry , apart from the odd sleet or hail shower on the west coast and parts of Argyll . |
| 23 | The low cost of setting up such a system allows people who have never ventured beyond typewriter or wordprocessor to produce material which looks as though it has been professionally typeset . |
| 24 | ‘ It has been immensely frustrating and puzzling to us . |
| 25 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 26 | For the same reason it has been successfully refined and modified to accept communism . |
| 27 | In fact it has been so hot and humid today that I have had to get an electric fan and put it on in my room . |
| 28 | In such a situation , ruling bodies , be it the WBO , WBA or WBC , are reluctant to take away a champion 's title when it has been so close . |
| 29 | In fact , Black South African writers are committed in trying to rewrite our history , our true history , because it has been so much misrepresented and twisted , and used against the people themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ It has been so long , and this must be Perdita . ’ |