Example sentences of "it have [adv] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years . |
| 2 | One Shetland policeman said yesterday : ‘ It has not been a regular occurrence by any means . |
| 3 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 4 | By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . |
| 5 | It has not been a wholly successful policy . |
| 6 | So far though it has not been a problem raising money for the sharp end of mountain rescue — for new ropes or new vehicles and the like . |
| 7 | It has not been a productive summer for Viv Richards . |
| 8 | It has not been a characteristic of the Department of Education and Science in the past few years — The Minister seems not to accept that , but if he talked to teachers about one or two recent arbitrary changes in education provision , he might well hear the view that there could have been more consultation . |
| 9 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 10 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 11 | But it has n't been a problem . |
| 12 | It has n't been a very good day for me . ’ |
| 13 | Well it has n't been a complete loss . |
| 14 | Investment banking although this year it 's a very different difficult environment for investment banking particularly a house that concentrates on , on corporate finance er there has n't been a great deal of M and A activity and if , if there has it has n't been a very high erm very high ticket . |
| 15 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 16 | ‘ It has n't been a good start , has it ? ’ |
| 17 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 18 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 19 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 20 | It has n't been a waste of time and money . |
| 21 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 22 | I mean it 's just like Aston is , it is , is , it 's , it 's a university but it has n't been a university for that long , it was a technological institute before |
| 23 | Yeah , so , it has n't been a bad day , it 's been quite nice |
| 24 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 25 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 26 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 27 | Yes , well it has also been a point that for all their substantially lower salaries there are far more bright sparks in the higher echelons of public sector management than is credited . |
| 28 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 29 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 30 | Their public excuse was that they attempted to do so in the Social Security Act 1986 , but it has clearly been a failure . |